Introduction: Perspective

Perspective is the art that is dedicated to the representation of three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional (flat) surface with the intention of recreating the relative position and depth of said objects. The purpose of perspective is, therefore, to reproduce the shape and arrangement with which objects appear in view.

A little history:

One of the most important inventions in the history of painting is due to an architect, Filippo Brunelleschi. He was the one who laid the foundations of the method that would allow plastic artists to reproduce figures and objects as the human eye perceives them. We are talking about the origin of linear perspective.

The first work in which the revolutionary laws enunciated by Brunelleschi (Florence, 1377-1446) were put into practice was in La Trinidad (1426-1428) by Masaccio, located in the Florentine church of Santa Maria Novella.

Perspective a vanishing point:

Perspective is something we live with in our everyday world, it is a powerful tool when developing our comics or illustrations.

As the first advice that I leave you, is to practice on freehand paper and on a squared sheet and then use the study clip tools, since this will facilitate the use of these tools.

As we see in the first image, we use perspective with a single vanishing point, and establish the formal elements that intervene in it, the most important being the viewer, this is the one that will play an important role when thinking about our designs since the determines the point where the elements to represent will be located.

The other items are important, as shown in the image they are abbreviated.

OBS: observer. It depends on where our drawing is located.

LH: Horizon line. This line is imaginary and is in the plane, it is used as a reference since in reality we can never reach it.

LF: Leak lines. They are the guide lines that converge at the vanishing point and contain the figure to be drawn.

PF: Vanishing point. This point is anchored on the horizon line is the anchor guide for our drawings and their projection.

Perspective and the body:

As we can see in the image, perspective also influences the body and faces.

Perspective rules:

As we can see in the image we create a perspective ruler, this is done on a layer, right click the menu is displayed and we look for the option to create perspective ruler.

When we display the options box we can see that we have to choose the amount of vanishing point for our representation.

Depending on what we illustrate, we can try the three main options.

In the image we can see how the perspective works with a vanishing point, in the video we can also see how the Horizon line moves, this will determine how the objects will be seen in space depending on where the observer is located.

In the two images above we see what the perspective rulers look like with two vanishing points and three vanishing points respectively, I invite you to watch the full video where we develop the use of the mentioned tools.