Bookend's Sketchbook

[Agerkvist]

Agerkvist: Hey man, great to see ya!  I'll make sure I keep up my good work then, haha.

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So, I was playing around and trying to make an environment after seeing Anthony Jones' gumroad on practical perspective.  Pretty fun, but I have no clue what I'm doing, so any pointers are appreciated. ;)

That's a great video - he creates the illusion of depth so fast and makes it look so easy.

It's not "easy" but it's pretty simple(now it sounds like I know what I'm doing, which I don't but I think I picked up a few things from the tut).

I did this quick paint over to try and illustrate. It's far from pretty, but I hope it illustrates the principle.

Make the plants size go down in scale according your perspective lines and it will give the illusio of depth. Same way with the lines on the ground. Closest to the viewer the lines are thick and then they decrease in size the further we move away. Also added a few bushes or whatever, because I seem to remember that's one of the examples AJ also mentioned.

Basically relate it all to your horison line, draw a few guide lines to help if need be and you get get the sense of things receeding into the distance fairly easy.

Bleh, is this helpful at all? If not, tell me and I'll try again :D