I am providing a syllabus for the Linear Perspective portion of Drawn to Art - As we progress there will be syllabi for all aspects of drawing including shading, portraiture, pen drawing, subtractive drawing techniques, drawing with various mediums, figure drawing and scratch art. as well as other areas of study.

I will show you how to create a three-dimensional effect drawing simple blocks in one point linear perspective at first. Then we will progress to more complicated forms. Once you know the basics anything is possible.

I will show you the way to box -like forms above and below eye level...and then ....more special illusions with perspective.

Overlapping and penetrated boxes

More buildings lining a street in different positions relative to the viewer.

Magic! "Calculating" the symmetrical centered placement of rows and Columns of Windows without mass or numerical calculations. It's all about the power of x on a plane.

I've developed a foolproof system for creating three-dimensional curved slab shapes and I am sharing that system with you. It's an example of how through the process of teaching perspective for decades, new insights come to us that we recognize as true. a teacher

When you view a river or a road or a path in real space one point linear perspective is still needed. The vanishing point however, moves along the horizon line, your eye level.

In this image taken at White Memorial Foundation Boardwalk and nature preserve, you can see how the sides of each stretch of the boardwalk converge on the horizon line at 1 point, but that point moves along the eye level.

In this unti you learn how 1 point linear perspective applies to a bridge or a wall receding in space. All the vertical planes are B planes and all the A planes are also vertical. The D planes, which, remember uses D for down (below eye level) is a horizontal plane atop the wall or bridge. We again use a moving vanishing point.

Finally! I've been anticipating sharing with you the basics of TWO point linear perspective. This occurs when you are viewing a block like structure like a building or a washing machine or any cubicle type of form from the corner. Notice that we always started our forms in one point perspective with a rectangle or with a curved shape of some kind. Now we begin to point perspective where in you are viewing a building or a room from the corner.

Now we take the basics of two-point perspective that we already learned and create sloping roofs and stairs. You are building skills on things you already know from previous videos. Complex forms are made of simple forms remember that.

We will learn to reconcile vertical and horizontal planes so they make sense.

This video with explain how to create a glass pyramid. Think about the footprint of a pyramid; it is a square. So what is a square on a horizontal plane below eye level? It is a D plane, two pairs of converging lines. It all comes down to the basics.

In this introduction to the canon of the human head (standard or average proportions) from a frontal view you will learn how to draw eyes, nose and mouth and the average proportions of the features. You will gain understanding of why the surface features appear the way they do related to the bony structures underneath the surface.

This instruction will show you how to draw the human head in proportion from a profile view.