Apparently, my drawing 1 teacher is one of the few who goes really intensive with perspective at my uni. I looooved doing architectural drawings as a kid, so I really enjoyed it, even if I bitch(ed) about it. :P Plus, once you learn perspective, it's SO easy to get your drawings and other designs to look fairly decent, even if you otherwise suck. I mean, it's all scientifical, and it isn't 100% perfect, but it helps loads in planning. And doing a drawing of some complicated furniture in a handful of minutes, because you're perspective, can be really impressive to friends and family who aren't familiar with the technique. ;)


I'm making a very very brief tutorial for you, because I've been meaning to do it for another artist friend type who never had a perspective class (she does comics -- aluminiumdonut), and this has provided some impetus. I'll even do a chair for you. :) I love CGing with my tablet because it's loads easier than dragging a ruler around the paper, especially since my ruler is backed with cork which tends to smear pencil and graphite and pastel and everything else under the sun.



The best thing to do is to always start with a box, then draw whatever it is into the faces of the box. I tried drawing my glasses once, and it was way hard until I attemped that. My teacher tsked at me for not doing the box thing in the first place. She always yells at me for doing things the hard way.


Anyway, I'm going to work on this tutorial thing and then put it up in photobucket and link it here, but first I need to transfer my handwritten notes into type, because my tablet-handwriting sucks. tablet styluses != fountain pens, eesh.