Essential Linear Perspective Techniques
Patrick Connors
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- In-depth Instruction; over 146 mins
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Introduction to Pictorial Structures
14:34
Meet your instructor, artist and art instructor Patrick Connors, as he explains how to create the illusion of space, no matter what your desired subject matter is. Then, discover the five pictorial structures you'll master in this class before you sketch along with Patrick as he takes you through blocking out a still life scene.
Picture Plane Drawing
16:55
Discover how spatial depiction may be the most important part of representational art. Start composing your scenes with accuracy as you learn how to create a drawing of the picture plane. Patrick will demonstrate easy-to-use tools that will enable you to recreate what you see on paper.
Eye Level Line & Perspective
13:32
Learn how the eye level line not only brings the viewer into the painting but conveys status and intimacy with the subject. Discover how this eye level line is used in still life, landscape and portraiture painting as you develop the ability to employ a purposeful eye level line in your own work.
Projecting the Plane in Perspective
20:20
Explore how a gridded plane allows you to place all of the elements of your scene before you pick up your paintbrush or pencil. Then, learn how to make a perspective projection model as Patrick shows you how to create a template to represent what you see in space onto paper. Finally, use the cone of vision to hone in on what, exactly, you want to portray.
Vanishing & Measure Points
23:07
Delve into one-point perspective as you learn how to determine vanishing and measure points. Using a massing form -- Patrick uses a cube -- draw the face of the cube before adding the sides, using the grid created by your vanishing points and measure lines.
Points of Perspective
30:25
Master the art of the gridded plane as Patrick shows you how to draw your vanishing and transversal lines using your vanishing and measure points. Then, move on to two-point perspective you learn to recreate a cube at any angle. Finally, add a roof to the cube for a study in three-point perspective.
Circles in Perspective
26:40
Advance from straight lines to curved as Patrick shows you how to draw circles on your gridded plane. Start with a circle on the ground, and use the same techniques to draw circles on a perpendicular plane, which are useful for drawing clocks or other circles in perspective on walls. Finally, draw circles in two-point perspective as you sketch along with Patrick and draw the faces of a clock tower.
Learn how to draw linear perspective with easy-to-follow instruction from professional artist and instructor Patrick Connors. Apply composition essentials as you create a picture plane drawing. Convey the angle at which your subject is viewed with savvy use of the eye level line. Quickly and confidently place forms in your drawings with a gridded plane. Hone in on exactly what you want to portray with the cone of vision. Delve into one-point perspective, and use vanishing and measure points to draw a cube. Draw in two-point perspective as you render a cube from any angle, and add a roof to build your understanding of three-point perspective. Progress to curved lines as you work through illuminating exercises for drawing circular objects in one-, two- and three-point perspective. Use linear perspective to confidently capture lifelike form and depth in your drawings.
Patrick Connors
Patrick Connors is an award-winning easel painter and a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His drawings and paintings are exhibited across the country, as well as internationally in both private and public collections. Patrick has taught linear perspective at the Graduate School of the New York Academy of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art: Manhattan and Rome Programs.
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