Get Better at Perspective Drawing: Beginning with the Basics - using Affinity Designer

MP4 | Video: AVC 1280x720 | Audio: AAC 44KHz 2ch | Duration: 2 Hours 14M | 1.56 GB

Genre: eLearning | Language: English

If you’re someone who has ever struggled with creating accurate perspective, or found it difficult to portray a strong sense of depth within your artwork, or have ever been bothered by the distorted shapes that often occur using standard perspective methods - I believe the insights, skills, and techniques shared in this class will be very helpful to you.

I discovered I really needed to have a much better understanding of perspective while taking an anatomy drawing class online. Turns out, good proportion, solid shape language, and accurate foreshortening all require a pretty decent knowledge of perspective - which pretty much encompasses any type artwork out there.

As I thought about it, I realized that I had always struggled to create shapes in perspective. Finding the information I needed to get better at perspective was not easy. Most of the information I found in books and online seemed to be intended for the intuitive artist - someone who already draws what they see in their mind. I needed a more mechanical approach - a method that provides a process for achieving accurate perspective.

I researched many methods for drawing in perspective over the course of several months. I was only gaining small bits of knowledge about how to create objects in perspective while I was becoming increasingly aware; as long as command of perspective eluded me, it would prevent me from being a capable artist. I became obsessed with the idea a process based method had to exist somewhere