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Page 3: [link]
Page 4: taken down cuz its not needed.
Page 5: [link]
Page 6: [link]

Time to prepare for this tutorial: 1 year
Time to make the tutorial: 6 hours
Purpose of the tutorial: To help beginners, or people who struggle with drawing perspectives to get a start in apply it.


I feel quite accomplished being able to finish this tutorial now. I promised this since last year, it was a challenge to even start to make it.
Honestly, I don't feel I am good at perspective, but it seems like I am good enough to teach some basics.

There are plenty of tutorials on perspectives out there, but not everyone can apply the technquies after they learn them.
I hope this tutorial will help out the majority of the artists who started drawing with characters first like I am.

Other recommanded tutorials: From easy to hard

Interactive Perspective
Introduction to Perspective
Eye Level
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Comments: 61

mayshing In reply to ??? [2012-10-29 03:13:06 +0000 UTC]

There's really no advanced perspective, just more or less understanding of the same subject.
I think this: [link]
is a pretty complete book.

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KwesiX [2010-09-29 23:52:45 +0000 UTC]

remember your friends 1 2 and 3 point i never paid attention to them thats y i got to suffer now so children remember them

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HyperChronic [2010-08-11 03:22:25 +0000 UTC]

I know I'm pretty late on replying to this (4 years late....), but I just can't something without commenting. I'm weird like that.
I just want to say that this will be a big help for me (this and the other pages to the tutorial) so, thank you very much for creating this!
Now to study vigorously....

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mayshing In reply to HyperChronic [2010-08-11 14:42:43 +0000 UTC]

best wishes to u

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HyperChronic In reply to mayshing [2010-08-12 01:15:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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D0nkrig [2010-05-13 03:33:23 +0000 UTC]

Wow, great, you are really good at teaching, it really helped, thanks a lot,

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Sonikku0691 [2010-04-07 23:51:25 +0000 UTC]

This will be really helpful x3

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orachel [2010-03-12 08:26:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so mcuh...I'm just getting started w manip and basics like light and shadows are killin' me! lol This should help!

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dsoloud [2009-09-09 01:55:27 +0000 UTC]

awesome tutorial!

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sipowicz1993 [2009-08-15 07:47:04 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic series of tutorials. I love how you highlight the fact that perspective isn't a technique or invention, it's the way we see!

What happened to part 4 though?

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mayshing In reply to sipowicz1993 [2009-08-15 20:23:21 +0000 UTC]

got deleted by DA haven't put it back.

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RCorona [2008-12-21 20:29:00 +0000 UTC]

lol im a dummy so thanks you for making this

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Tristan-the-Dreamer [2008-09-26 15:19:34 +0000 UTC]

My perspective skills are abysmal so I'm really excited to read this tutorial!!

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Jinx-Midnight [2008-09-10 23:21:29 +0000 UTC]

Holy cow, this is great. Thanks for making this! It helps alot

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DancingChaos [2008-08-31 00:42:24 +0000 UTC]

Very helpful, thanks!

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MisukiNinja [2008-08-04 12:28:42 +0000 UTC]

very useful- Thanks for making a tutorial like this.

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SpinachBaron [2008-07-13 16:32:21 +0000 UTC]

This is definitely a great tutorial and reading it has really helped my studies on perspective and made me that much more confident with backgrounds

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Particularlyme [2008-07-10 03:32:15 +0000 UTC]

I'm more of a step by step person. So I get confused easily -_-;

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Particularlyme [2008-07-10 03:25:40 +0000 UTC]

I could almost cry trying to draw actual scenery like this....I guess I should really take it one step at a time. A cube box today, the empire state building tommorow!

It would be so much easier if I was being taught this in an art class or something T_T

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mayshing In reply to Particularlyme [2008-07-10 15:03:29 +0000 UTC]

art class doesn't always make it easy... I had a good perspective prof that confused the hell out of everyone. ;D He was trying to be simple too. T_T

Check out the tutorials i listed at the bottom of the tutorial, they are the basics and included step by steps I didn't mention.

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Particularlyme In reply to mayshing [2008-07-11 02:16:29 +0000 UTC]

Actually I have...I really liked the Introduction to Perspective. I tried out the first two in that one so far and took notes in another other. I guess ultimately...I should by a book. A few pages to me in any of those websites just don't give me a good grasp on perspective. Time to go shopping!

You can tell I was never really trained in this can't you...

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mayshing In reply to Particularlyme [2008-07-11 17:20:56 +0000 UTC]

so was I. I studied perspective for 1.5 years with sites and books and still missed some stuff until I took a perspective class.... but I did much better in the perspective class because I did my own homework.

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Particularlyme In reply to mayshing [2008-07-11 22:00:15 +0000 UTC]

Sounds fair enough. You get what you work for.

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dawnofminstrel [2008-01-03 13:36:42 +0000 UTC]

Hi! Thank you for the lovely tutorial - it certainly makes some points I will use.

Thing is - I find the whole thing a bit confusing. The structure is kind of weird and sometimes you don't say what we are learning (it took me 15 minutes to figure out what parts 5 & 6 are for), making the whole thing... well, ineffective.

Maybe if you could add more exposition to the whole thing and just settle for one text box per-line (so to say)?

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mayshing In reply to dawnofminstrel [2008-01-03 18:07:36 +0000 UTC]

I know what you are saying.
Perspective is tough to understand without a lot of examples, done step by step, which takes a mad amount of time to do.
That's what I am thinking to work on right now.
Mean while, please check out other excellent tutorials I have listed below in my describtion.

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Manah-Angel-Eyes [2008-01-02 21:32:13 +0000 UTC]

This will come in handy for me! ^.^
I am planning to make my very first manga

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ace0fblades [2007-08-23 13:00:31 +0000 UTC]

Acck thankyou! I can't wait to start all of these ^^

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andrespath [2007-06-30 11:17:06 +0000 UTC]

THANX FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE, BUT ... I FELT A LITTLE BIT TOUCHED FOR THE WORD "DUMMIE"

SEE U

?

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lovethepimphand [2007-05-25 22:37:49 +0000 UTC]

oh thank you! I've been trying to find a perspective tutorial!!!!!
This one seems cool!

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SilentChaosT [2007-02-17 17:02:16 +0000 UTC]

After looking at the six pages, I have a feeling this will help me a lot with putting people in perspective.
thank you for making this tutorial. I'll make good use of it.

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mayshing In reply to SilentChaosT [2007-02-17 19:17:12 +0000 UTC]

You are welcome.

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irenukia [2007-01-31 19:09:50 +0000 UTC]

Ok after reading this first page i have the feeling it's going to be an extremely helpful tutorial. Thanks for creating this

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MyMonster [2007-01-26 21:56:00 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the tutorial!!
This is really helpful!!
Thanks, again!!!

Sorry T.T, my sticky english, but i even canΒ΄t spell spanish correctly!!

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mayshing In reply to MyMonster [2007-01-28 20:53:36 +0000 UTC]

you are welcome. I hope this helps your work.

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MyMonster In reply to mayshing [2007-01-29 21:50:40 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the welcome!!
Your tutorials i hope to help me!!!

Sorry , my poor english!!!

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cenoz0ic-girl [2006-12-31 05:16:18 +0000 UTC]

wow this is really helpful thank you

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shadow-freak [2006-12-28 01:10:47 +0000 UTC]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAH

I LOVE YOU. *lavishes tutorial @3@*

And that is all.

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mayshing In reply to shadow-freak [2006-12-28 16:22:56 +0000 UTC]

thank you. ^_^
I plan to do a more detailed one surrounding the first method I developed for people to work with during the holiday.

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odairjr [2006-12-01 13:33:25 +0000 UTC]

Hi.
I am fron the Brazil and I found its deviation very good.
Congratulations!

Please, it forgives my English, I am using a translator on-line.

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OlΓ‘.
Sou do Brasil e achei seu trabalho muito bom.
ParabΓ©ns!

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Ar-Yue [2006-09-13 00:57:36 +0000 UTC]

This will prove useful to me, thanks you for this Especially the fourth one... never did understand the sphere method that much.

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mayshing In reply to Ar-Yue [2006-09-13 13:49:40 +0000 UTC]

I didn't explain the forth one as much, since there's another tutorial that has done a great job explaining it. (Which I included in my describtions.) Anyway, glad you found it helpful still.

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Ar-Yue In reply to mayshing [2006-09-18 02:16:41 +0000 UTC]

Even though it's little, it beats not having any information to know.

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lunayuy [2006-09-12 00:05:35 +0000 UTC]

Finally, a good tutorial on perspective! Really helps - thanks!

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mayshing In reply to lunayuy [2006-09-13 13:57:53 +0000 UTC]

I am glad you found it helpful.

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Shintei-chan [2006-09-11 23:25:05 +0000 UTC]

Useful...
I started using perspectives just recently...
I don't have much problems with them...I'm just lazy...BGs take too much time...and details

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na-insoo [2006-09-11 21:47:16 +0000 UTC]

Incredible insight as I already told you XD. Thank you so much for making this tutorial...it's something that a lot of peopel lack in their art (including me)

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Starstoryteller [2006-09-11 21:40:32 +0000 UTC]

You are so generous my friend.

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erin5000 [2006-09-11 15:34:23 +0000 UTC]

nice.

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kalkie [2006-09-11 09:26:16 +0000 UTC]

I sorta freaked out when you wrote the words 'SCREW THEM' on the 1, 2 3 perspective method XDXD;;;

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celestialmaiden [2006-09-11 02:25:35 +0000 UTC]

oh yay!!!
Thank you so much for covering this!
This is an area I really needed to understand better.

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