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Freehand Perspective Drawing Tutorial
Published: 2012-05-05 22:23:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 129779; Favourites: 5884; Downloads: 2764
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Another tutorial, my first that actually deals with drawing skills. I tried to keep this very concise, more pictures than words, so there might not be as much information as should be. Hopefully its still helpful, and I'm always happy to clarify stuff, just let me know.BTW, this tutorial is almost, but not quite, for beginners. It assumes some basic exposure to linear perspective, and is designed to help people get more comfortable with perspective, and find new and better ways to use it.
Edit: Wow, much thanks for the great positive response to this. If I had known this was going to see this much traffic, I would have checked my spelling more carefully.
I was debating making a part two dealing with curved perspective; which I'll definitely try to get done in the next few weeks. Thanks for all your comments, apologies if I don't respond; you folks have flooded me. Edit 2: Wow, a DD... now I REALLY wish I had checked my spelling and grammar.
Thanks for the comments and faves, everyone; really glad to hear that this has been helpful. I've learned so much from all the great tutorials here on dA, so hopefully this pays some of that forward a little bit. And thank you to and for the nod; very appreciated.
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Thanks for making this! I featured this extremely helpful tutorial here
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I suck at perspectives, and this is really helpful!!!!!!
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This is going to help me save so much paper now that I will not have to keep starting over a multitude of times. Great job with explaining everything.
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I've seen tons of these, but this one is super concise and helpful, thanks so much!
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Hi, you've been featured here: [link]
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This is amazing stuff mate. Thanks for the visual guide and handy tips! *thumbs up*
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This is a brilliant tutorial, thanks so much for it
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Very nice, concise guide! You explain things in a few steps that other tutorials make way over-complicated. And I love that it's freehand. It makes this thing most people find intimidating into something fun and simple, and it makes it easier to grasp the ideas behind perspective instead of getting bogged down wondering if you're doing the lines right.
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What an incredibly detailed and useful tutorial. I've never been a huge participant of perspective, mostly because I can rarely find a tutorial or assistance that inspires me to try but I certainly have a change of heart after reading this. The grid lines were unexpected but I think i'll give it a shot
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I definitely like this tutorial. I read that same book, Perspective for Comic Book Artists, when I was about twelve and ever since I've been trying to do the same thing in the loose, sketchy style that I have. This is such a great help, because it shows how I don't need to be absolutely perfect when I'm doing all those lines.
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I haven't learned much about perspectives during my schooldays but this tutorial is really helpful. It will definitely help me in the near future (since it's rare for me to draw a decent background, let stand buildings and whatnot)
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This is the best perspective tutorial I've ever read since it skips the technical jargon and goes straight into why and how its used and examples of the same. Awesome!
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Well done on the DD! This tutorial really deserves it!!!!
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Wow! Thank you so much for making this! This was immensely helpful!!!
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This is really cool! Congratulations on the DD!!!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! 
And congrats on the well-deserved DD!
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I wish more tutorials like these would get DDs. <3
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This was very informative thanks so much for posting it its helped me understand perspective a bit more.
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I wish I found this while doing my summer Layout/Background class....This would've helped a lot. Perspectives and layout designs are my weakness. :c
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PERSPECTIVE!
I love imagining eccentric perspective and angles for some of my planned artsies, but I've had SO MUCH trouble applying it to a piece of paper that I gave up on a lot of ideas. Thanks for making the tutorial!
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Perspective has always been a thorn in my side. Something my brain just doesn't want to wrap itself around to well. Tutorials like this that make it simple and easy are greatly appreciated. Thanks for taking the time.
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This is a pretty helpful guide. It'll come in handy when I try those perspectives.
...Because normally, I really, really suck at perspectives.
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This is actually one of the more helpful perspective guides I've found. Thank you for making it, and congrats on the DD.
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It's a great intro (or reminder for those of us who have gotten terribly rusty!) Looking forward to the curved perspective tutorial. It was arches that kind of made me give up on the whole thing.
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I never bothered to pay attention to perspective. It is something my art really lacks. This was unbelievably helpful! And seems not so complicated, after all! A million thanks for this! Congrats on the DD, very well deserved!
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Wow you make understanding perspective so easy and I'm so excited to actually start bgs... thank you so much! ; v ;
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Very helpful to anyone who didn't totally understand perspective.
This really helped me to understand what I was doing wrong with stuff like this, thanks a lot!
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I'm so glad you made this tutorial c:
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This is awesome. Thanks so much for making this. You're so right: I'm starting to see that perspective is so important, particularly since I'm seeing that the lack of attention to it is one of the big weaknesses in my drawing skills. I have some work ahead of me, and this will help a ton.
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Ooh! I'll add this to my list of things to try!
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Thank you for putting this together. It was very helpful!!
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