Hi everyone! Chiken here.
In the last lesson, we went through
some quick ways to add simple backgrounds
that can help finish our character illustrations.
In this lesson, we we will be going through
the basic principles of perspective and how to use
procreate's drawing guides to help us with that.
Firstly, I'll go through 1 point,
2 point, and 3 point perspectives.
These are perspective guides that can
help us with drawing 3D objects.
These will usually be used with drawings
involving man made objects such as buildings
or furniture like tables and beds.
Because perfect cubes and rectangles generally
don't occur that much in nature.
Let's start out with the one point perspective.
If you've heard of the vanishing point before, it is
where all the lines converge to in an image, and
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this vanishing point will lie on the horizon line.
In one point perspective, we will
only have one vanishing point.
To set up the one point perspective guide on
Procreate, we go into the settings and turn on
the drawing guide here, then go into "Edit drawing guide",
"perspective" and we just have to tap once
on the screen to get the one point perspective.
Now, let's go into our layers and we are
going to set this layer as assisted drawing.
Now, when we draw on this layer, we
will automatically draw in straight lines, either horizontally,
vertically, or according to the vanishing point.
And for one point perspective, we will
always see the square or rectangular surface
of any object that we draw.
Anything that's drawn below the horizon line will look
like it's on the ground and anything drawn above
it will look like it's suspended in air.
And if we want to see more of the top surface of
the objects below, we just have to raise our horizon line.
So now when we draw a cube, it looks like
we are looking at it more from the top.
This works really well,
if you're drawing a character with objects that are
all facing forward, as in we'll be looking at
them from a side that is completely square or
rectangular, like this cube that we drew here.
Or, it can also be used to draw
a street with buildings that are all parallel
with each other, like this set up here.
Now let's move on to 2 point perspective.
2 point perspective is when
there are two vanishing points.
I had to make the image smaller because the
vanishing points usually lie outside of the photo.
And to set this up with the drawing guide
in Procreate, we just have to go back into
the drawing guide, tap another point on the horizon
line, and we'll get a second vanishing point.
This perspective will work for when you
want to draw objects from a side.
We check that the assisted drawing is still on
and we can now draw a 3D Cube and
we can already see that there are no perfect
squares or rectangles like in the 1 point perspective.
All our surfaces are trapeziums.
And we can draw an object above our vanishing point as well.
And it will look like it will be suspended in
the air, similar to the 1 point perspective.
Now, I'll try to draw a
house with this 2 point perspective.
I'll bring our horizon line down because we want
to have a more down up view of the house.
So, if we are drawing a house from the side like
I am doing now, or a table from one side with
the corner visible, we would use the 2 point perspective.
Now moving on to the three point perspective,
this will be used when we are viewing
objects from below or above them, namely buildings.
So our third vanishing point will be
situated either above or below the line.
In this case, our third vanishing point is
below the horizon line, and I use Procreate's
drawing guide to illustrate this because our vanishing
points lie way beyond the canvas.
To set up our drawing guides in Procreate, again,
we're going to go to "Edit drawing guide" and
we're gonna tap a spot above the horizon line.
Now, with our third vanishing point above our
horizon line, we will have a sort of
bottom up view of the buildings.
It will look like the buildings are towering over us.
Now that we have an idea of how to use
Procreate's drawing Guide to help us set up 3D shapes
in the background, let's go over how we would place
our characters within an environment, in a way such that
they are in scale with each other and their surroundings.
So the best way to keep things at the right
level when they are closer or further away to the
camera, is to take note of at what level they
meet the eye line or horizon line.
Firstly, let's take a look at this picture here.
There's some furniture here that can guide us
in finding out where our vanishing point is.
And from there we can find our horizon line and
we can see here when we move our highland cow
closer to the camera, the middle of its chest will
always be where our horizon line meets.
Applying this concept to our
character art is really simple.
We have two characters here of different heights and
all we need to do is just mark out
at which level they meet our horizon line.
And now, when we duplicate it and make it bigger
or smaller, we will know where to place our character,
and it will still look really in scale.
We can do this for our other character too.
And if we want to make a really close up, we can easily do that.
Now, we have many, many characters in the scene,
but they look really in scale with each other
and positioned correctly with respect to the camera.
In this lesson we learnt about perspective.
We learnt about 1, 2 and 3 point perspective and
went through how to place a character according to the eyeline.
In the next lesson, we will learn how to
render and add plants to our character illustration.