StardustLarva's Visual Explorations

[Patrick Gaumond]

Unless you intend to draw vehicles of some sort or get involved in architecture and interiors heavily, then you don't need to be super masterful at the in depth aspects of perspective. If you understand the basics (boxes, vanishing points, ellipses, cone of vision and so forth) then you should be fine. Like fedo said, really its just about knowing how things should be placed on a box/grid. All the other stuff is to make it really precise, and maybe further down the line you might be more interested in that, but master the basics of it first and you'll be good for a while.

Is there anything in particular you're not getting or find boring? I still struggle with perspective myself, but I can help you if want. I think I've said this already but If you're still trying to freehand everything it might be a good idea to pull out a ruler until you get . Most people find perspective quite stale and uninteresting. If thats the case with you, just focus on something else for a while, let it ruminate in your head and come back to it later. You might find it easier to understand if you take a break from it

He doesn't really cover the ideas behind perspective beyond the bare basics, but Feng zhu has a lot of good videos on his youtube to watch if you haven't seen them yet. Also his gnomon dvd where he sketches spaceships is good to watch so you can see how he measures things and works fairly tightly but without plotting out every single point super accurately