Top Foreshortening Technique Correct Scale Every Time!

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  • Опубликовано: 14 июн 2022
  • Do foreshortening problems spoil the scale of your drawings? Do your buildings look not quite right? This simple technique gives you accurate foreshortening measures every time. It may just cause all your scale problems to fall into place. Particularly important if you create buildings from your imagination.

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  • @michaelostrander3681
    @michaelostrander3681 Год назад +24

    The insights I've gained by watching your videos have literally transformed my work over the course of only a couple of weeks. I've been watching carefully and then applying what you're teaching by simply mimicking the exercises. My sketching wasn't terrible before, just sometimes seemed to be a bit off. After watching some of your lessons I now understand why. Thank you so much for the really fine work here.

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад +2

      What an immensely satisfying comment to read Michael. I’m so pleased for your drawing and that my videos have been so helpful. Thanks for telling me (and if you have friends who draw, please tell them as well). 😀

  • @doreenlalor5971
    @doreenlalor5971 8 дней назад +1

    This is a terrific help to make repetitive elements in structures easier to handle. I’ve watched most of your videos on perspective and I have found them an aid in my understanding of not only about what I was doing instinctively but what I was not understanding how I was off the mark. As an artist who try’s to incorporate realism within abstraction with philosophical or political ideas, you have added another dimension to my skill set. Thank you.

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  7 дней назад

      Thanks Doreen, that’s encouraging to hear. All the best with it. 😀

  • @7th_CAV_Trooper
    @7th_CAV_Trooper 3 месяца назад +3

    It's interesting that without the foreshortening of the windows, the wall actually looks curved.

  • @adamwee382
    @adamwee382 7 месяцев назад +2

    I've seen so many videos on perspective and foreshortening but they never really made a lot of sense to me, until i watched your videos.

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  7 месяцев назад

      Thanks Adam. A great comment for a teacher to hear v😀

  • @TokyoDynamite
    @TokyoDynamite Год назад +5

    Thanks Stephen for all your videos. My favorite teacher on RUclips. With the weather getting better, I’ve been drawing buildings outside more. These videos help so much !

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад

      Lucky you Zach. Our weather is getting colder. Have fun with all that sketching. 😀

  • @jazzmusician46
    @jazzmusician46 Год назад +4

    Thanks Stephen for your tutorial on perspective and foreshortening. You explained and demonstrated it very well.

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад +1

      No problem Graeme. And foreshortening applies to anything, not just buildings.

  • @davidsmith812
    @davidsmith812 2 года назад +8

    This was SO helpful in helping me (us) w/ foreshortening. Thank you!!!

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  2 года назад +1

      Thanks David. It’s an important part of perspective often overlooked. All the best with it in your drawing. 😀

  • @Jonanation
    @Jonanation Год назад +11

    This was actually really helpful! I clicked on this video thinking I wouldn’t learn much new, given I already consider myself pretty alright with perspective.
    But I had really never heard of this method! I knew how to place objects correctly and foreshorten them, but I never knew there was a way to measure how many objects you put in a given space.
    I have no idea if any of what I said made sense, but point is I learned something new. Thanks a bunch!

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад +1

      Great to hear Jonathan. It is very helpful. Mostly I estimate foreshortening, but at times when it’s a bit tricky, this is really handy to know. All the best with your drawing. 😀

  • @zepto5945
    @zepto5945 Год назад +5

    I learned about the diagonal method on david finch's channel but I didn't get how it works exactly. Now I totally understand it. Very well explained.

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад +2

      Thanks Zepto. Just what every teacher loves to hear. All the best with your drawing. 😀

  • @lurych
    @lurych Год назад +4

    This method for drawing repeating pattern is described by Loomis in 3-dimensional drawing, is incredible. Wonderful and useful video by the way!

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад +3

      I’m not familiar with Loomis myself, but thanks for the reference. Thanks. Glad the video was helpful. 😀

  • @nafisbernafas9073
    @nafisbernafas9073 Год назад +3

    Thank you very much! I'm a new architecture student with no knowledge of proper drawing whatsoever and this helped me make sense of the more technical stuff!

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад

      That’s great to hear. Thanks for letting me know. 😀

  • @evijesyadrianisianipar983
    @evijesyadrianisianipar983 Год назад +1

    Thank you for giving me clearer ideas about how to make the line becomes neater!

  • @delphinewood7519
    @delphinewood7519 Год назад +1

    Another brilliant tutorial. So well explained. Thank you!

  • @TheOldBaz
    @TheOldBaz Месяц назад +1

    Stephen, this is fantastic, so well explained and demonstrated.

  • @heatherh3457
    @heatherh3457 2 года назад +1

    Awesome! Thank you.

  • @JuliaJohnstonPhotos
    @JuliaJohnstonPhotos Год назад +1

    So so so so helpful!! Thank you 🙏🏽

  • @kayj312
    @kayj312 Год назад +1

    this technique is insane

  • @noobisevolving9892
    @noobisevolving9892 Месяц назад +1

    thank you for sharing every minute details and mistakes we made. your channel deserves millions of subs...............im blessesd

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Месяц назад

      Thank you so much 😀all the best with your drawing. 😀

  • @eb6064
    @eb6064 2 года назад +1

    Your videos are so helpful… thank you very much!!!

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  2 года назад

      Always encouraging to hear this e b. Thanks. Please tell your friends. 😀

  • @safiraborgart9504
    @safiraborgart9504 Год назад +1

    Thank you! Sooo helpful! 👏🏼

  • @lisadamron8876
    @lisadamron8876 Год назад +3

    This was so incredibly helpful. Is it weird to be in love with both art and math?

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад

      Not at all Lisa. Friends who are mathematicians tell me pure maths becomes more like art than maths the further into it you go. 😀

  • @puoslerrious
    @puoslerrious 11 месяцев назад +1

    thats great! so simple! looks perfect!

  • @kausaru._
    @kausaru._ Год назад +1

    Thank you, so much Stephen

  • @jeromebonto8680
    @jeromebonto8680 Год назад

    Thank you Stephen. This is very helpful.

  • @Jay-ql4gp
    @Jay-ql4gp 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you!

  • @blobofblutack
    @blobofblutack Год назад +1

    Legend, thanks!

  • @cdifffc1754
    @cdifffc1754 3 месяца назад +1

    Incredibly helpful

  • @cocoke7095
    @cocoke7095 2 года назад +1

    So Useful!!!! Thanks very much

  • @nigelhill74
    @nigelhill74 Год назад +1

    Woah, I have never seen this technique for dividing up a surface. That is brilliant!!!!!

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад

      And it’s so simple Nigel. Mostly I just estimate foreshortening but when I need it to be more exact, this is great. 😀

    • @nigelhill74
      @nigelhill74 Год назад

      @@stephentraversart yes, so simple. I studied industrial design and learnt advanced perspective construction techniques that allowed you to project details from a plan view on to a picture plane and then to the viewing station to work out spacing but it was tricky and I’ve forgotten it. I also know the technique of making one square in perspective and then copying it using a similar technique with diagonal lines. But this is so much easier.
      I usually estimate too though.
      Love your videos!

  • @reemara
    @reemara Год назад +1

    thank you for directing me to the link

  • @Banoffeenyx
    @Banoffeenyx Год назад +1

    SO HELPFUL!!!

  • @abdelkadirbenbia3777
    @abdelkadirbenbia3777 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much

  • @richardlowell2564
    @richardlowell2564 Год назад +5

    Great technique, thanks. Very helpful as always. Is there any way to calculate how long to make the wall, proportional to walls that are at another angle? For example, if you are drawing a cube shaped building in two point perspective, you know both walls are the same length. How do you know where the walls end to be sure they are proportional to each other?

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад +2

      There is, but it’s more than a comment can manage. Perhaps I can make it a video. Stay tuned Richard. 😀

  • @jerrygraves6531
    @jerrygraves6531 Год назад +1

    Great video

  • @hendywijaya3213
    @hendywijaya3213 Год назад +1

    It's so helpful, thank you sir!

  • @creativeartworld935
    @creativeartworld935 Год назад +1

    I love your art work sir

  • @Nma005
    @Nma005 8 месяцев назад +1

    Very well explained THANK U SIR✨

  • @depressoespresso5904
    @depressoespresso5904 2 месяца назад +1

    oh my goodness this is SO USEFUL tysmm!! where was tis video before i inked my project last nighttt?

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  2 месяца назад +1

      It’s ready for your next project. All the best with it. 😀

  • @Tatokala
    @Tatokala Год назад +1

    Nice.🎉

  • @omniasabet6118
    @omniasabet6118 8 месяцев назад +1

    Very helpful

  • @SunShine-dk6rk
    @SunShine-dk6rk 2 года назад +9

    Thank you for a great explanation,as a beginner its these kind of details that can make or break a piece of art in perspective,as always Best wishes to yourself,family,friends and fellow budding artists.

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  2 года назад +2

      My pleasure. Always examine your drawings at the end. If something doesn’t seem quite right, work out why. It gives a very valuable focus on the next drawing. All the best. 😀

    • @SunShine-dk6rk
      @SunShine-dk6rk 2 года назад +1

      @@stephentraversart Thank you,will remember that.

  • @misakistalker3058
    @misakistalker3058 Год назад +1

    read about perpective and i always get stuck and unable to understand the more advanced lessons, this one wall with windows is perfect, than you so much!

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад

      I’m really glad it worked for you Misaki. All the best using it in your drawings 😀

  • @WoodchuckNorris.8o
    @WoodchuckNorris.8o Год назад +1

    I'm trying to design my house I want to build. Your videos are very helpful thank you

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад

      Oh dear. I hope it doesn’t fall down!🤣 Actually, I considered studying architecture when I was at school, so it’s nice
      To hear you say this. All the best with your plans. 😀

  • @operationgladiolives
    @operationgladiolives Год назад +1

    stephen is the goat frfr

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад

      Haha! I had to look this up to see if it was good or bad!😆 Thanks dude. 👍

  • @svenkamog2232
    @svenkamog2232 Год назад +1

    Great video 👍 any tips on how to do this on a ground plane without the use of a vanishing point...

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад +1

      Once we know the principle, we can just estimate it. The half way point is always more than half way in the direction away from us the wall slopes, because the closer section will be ‘wider’ looking. The more sharply the wall slopes away from us, the further along the half way point will be. Does this help 😀

  • @drish5805
    @drish5805 23 дня назад

    damn!!! i found the right guy .

  • @pellier08
    @pellier08 Год назад +1

    The 'wrong' drawing with the square window at the end looks like a round gallery. So would it work in that case? The Monet museum in Paris, l'Orangerie, looks very similar to that drawing.

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  5 месяцев назад

      On a round wall the shape of the wi does would change according to the angle we see them on. The more straight on we see them the closer to their real proportions they will look. 😀

  • @caboose2406
    @caboose2406 Год назад +1

    Hey, I was wondering what the reason is for making the eye level line on a bit of a diagonal instead of horizontally?

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  Год назад +1

      Eye level should always be horizontal. Did I draw one a bit crooked? Sometimes if the camera is not square on to the paper the lines can look as though they slant, but it can also be a line that simply wandered a bit. 😀

    • @caboose2406
      @caboose2406 Год назад +1

      @@stephentraversart ahhhh gotcha gotcha 👌! I've been going through your videos for the past month or so, and I had seen where you differentiated eye level from horizontal lines and when I saw this I was thinking "did I muss something .o.??" Lol. So when practicing these foreshortening methods, keep the eye level horizontal. Awesome! Also, thank you so much for all the videos! I've been looking through so man channels and yours is by far one of my favorites! You cover so many unspoken areas!

  • @druwaahbadu7019
    @druwaahbadu7019 8 месяцев назад +1

    do you have any tips on how to draw man figures?

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  8 месяцев назад

      I have a few videos on drawing figures for streetscapes, but I don’t see figures as a strength area. 🫣

  • @berenicerafferty7770
    @berenicerafferty7770 Год назад +1

    🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @syikinathasolah2324
    @syikinathasolah2324 6 месяцев назад +1

    Idk why but to me the first one look as if its uhh somehow bit curved to mee or it aint?

  • @anymii6045
    @anymii6045 2 месяца назад +1

    Cylinder has circle maybe that's why tis hard to find the perspective

  • @benjaminrobinson7203
    @benjaminrobinson7203 3 месяца назад +1

    I have seen the face of God and it was beautiful.

    • @stephentraversart
      @stephentraversart  3 месяца назад

      Me too, but it certainly wasn’t in one of my videos!😉

  • @victorsecardin8261
    @victorsecardin8261 9 месяцев назад +1

    c pas ouf

  • @randomdude8852
    @randomdude8852 6 дней назад

    I myself go to art school but you've taught me more than any of my teachers. Forever grateful 🫶

  • @Shahd-zm1dp
    @Shahd-zm1dp 10 месяцев назад +1

    Very helpful

  • @judihopewell2499
    @judihopewell2499 Год назад +1

    Very helpful