Baldgate Sketchbook

[Fedodika]

hey baldgate, you requested some tips on finding the vanishing points, so heres my little informal way of describing it.

Practice finding the tops of surfaces and make sure in a drawing that the objects youre drawing all show the tops as truly s they appear in real life. Before investing a lot of time into a finished still life painting, be sure to spend a lot of time drawing stuff around your house instead and simply finding the perspective its sitting in. I know it isnt some complex equation scott robertson would use, but this is what perspective is, just positioning things.

So take like a phone, and rotate it, put it on top of things and draw it in those different angles and the things its on top of. Then youll start to see how the VP thing works. Everything is a simple shape that fits in a cube, once you draw something in perspective on your desk, imagine it on its side or some new object next to it then draw that. But yea finding the tops of things should help, i struggled with this concept for years trying to draw a skull on my desk, I should have not painted that skull but drawn simple objects in line instead that would have helped more i imagine