Check out Perspective Made Easy by ER Norling, you should be able to find a PDF with a google search, probably the most concise yet thorough perspective book I've read and covers a lot of these ideas
If that wouldn't happen, every line included in a horizontal plane (imaging your notebook been filled up with random lines) would lead to the vanishing point. Observation, obstervation...
you're right tbh the entire video opened up a new world to me lol the eye level thing is such a basic concept to understand but I've never really made the connection until this video. wow
I don't think i've ever been as shook as when I saw the eye level-line part and how the eyes stayed on the horizon line as you got closer to the camera... Huge moment of revelation for me, thank you so much!!!! Same with all the packages' lines converging at the horizon line despite not being parallel!!
Walking around the streets became unimaginably interesting for me. It’s like I have ignored all of these peculiarities and now I can see and enjoy them. Thanks, Kenzo!
Your method of teaching makes difficult topics easy to understand. This is the most easy-to-digest perspective teaching I've come across yet! Thanks Kenzo.
Ohhh the box lid thing! No one ever told that to me and it always confused me cuz I couldn't spot how perspective worked with those. Thank you so much!
This is a huge blessing. Thank you for compiling all these examples together! To understand something effectively, getting "perspective" to tackle a topic from multiple angles with simplicity is priceless to me!
Excellent proof that the horizon is always eye-level. I live in a valley. Thank you so much for simplifying this proof. Lesson: The horizon is not physical as we were taught outside of art class. I was a rare case because I loved art and science. I became a draftsman before computers and my drawing was always technical. Art and descriptive geometry taught me these horizon principles. Application: Ships do not go over the horizon. Look through binoculars and the ship will come back. The horizon line will move above the bottom of the ship. I will look to see if anybody else has good art lessons showing that the bottom of an object always disappears first on a flat surface. That is unresolved angular resolution. People need to learn these things: Oceans are level. Water is level. Gyroscopes indicate airplane level/parallel with sea level on the attitude (angle) indicator instrument. (altitude/height above sea level known by air pressure)
this is the best explanation of the fluctuations in perspective drawing that I have ever watched, read or heard. I wish this had been around 20 years ago. Would have saved me a ton of headaches.
this video finally helping me understand why I've always struggled w/eye level... I'm very much someone who learns from walking around real life and observing the world, as is recommended here. eye level never connected with me. watching 1:22... yeah that's what I always hear. then i get to 2:16. and I get it now. i get why eye level never clicked. i am small.
Growing up art teachers did not spend much time teaching the importance of eye level, not to mention the importance of its function in this depth! Thank you! Even though it's 4 years old😅😅😁✌🏽
Thank you so much for making this! I'm teaching myself perspective and so have been trying to observe things more intentionally in everyday life. And today while walking up stairs, I realized that there was a vanishing point above my eye level/the horizon. This confused the heck out of me, having learned that the vanishing point always falls on the horizon line. Now the mystery is all cleared up :) Really appreciate you teaching perspective with real-life objects as opposed to drawings. Hope you can do more of these perspective videos. Cheers! 😊
OMG, I'm almost 70 years old and I learned a lot of new stuff watching this video. See, you can teach an old dog new tricks. Thank you for this eye-opening information.
I had three different professors at art school attempt to explain this over the course of three years, and none of them ever explained it so simply, so succinctly and so concretely as you did. Thank you.
Kenzo, you're such a natural teacher! I get sucked into every video because I never feel lectured to. I feel like a friend has had an epiphany and can't wait to share their new knowledge with me so that we can both be excited about it.
These too videos on persective are so helpful and so clear. You don't just talk about boxes, you make us understand it with real life. Best videos i've seen to undestand perspective so far. Keep doing them and thank you so much! Can't wait for the ones about lights and shadows! :)
Oh my gosh! I have been teaching high school Drawing for 26 years, and have never found such a clear and perfectly visual video as this and your other videos. Adding them to my lectures starting today! Well done. Thank you!!
This really hit home for me. My entire life I've considered myself perspective savvy and aware. As you stated in one of your videos, there's a huge difference between being trained to be architecturally aware and life aware, but what a difference it made from the artist's eye level and point of perspective... a cold glass of water right in the kisser it was...as the subject disappeared below the midpoint of the canvas! In 78 yrs I've never once thought about it. The picture instantly became real for me psychologically and emotionally..
Man, finally!!!! It's easier to determine eye level with shots of buildings, outdoors, etc. But with close-ups and plain backgrounds I found it impossible. With the arm you showed at the end, finally understood. Thank you!
Viewing eye level not as a line but as a plane/level of elavation along with how rotation kinda offsets vanishing points brought me from being basically clueless about perspective to being able to point out eye level in almost any photo regardless of subject. Thx
i never understood how to place the horizon line before and it was the one thing that always confused me about drawing in perspective (especially looking up from the ground because the POV would have to be the height of a person). im literally stunned. this helped so much. this video is 4 yrs old but thank you lollllll!!!
I know this is 5 years old, but I really found the thing about the eye level staying the same as a subject moves closer/further away a revelation. I’ve always found perspective a bit tricky, so thank you for that! Subbed!
Wow! Amazing teaching!! Who knew there was so much to how our brain naturally interprets what we are looking at! ...and to be able to capture the same effect on a canvas we have to know how the brain calculates what we are looking at in order to correctly paint for the same effect.
You don't know how grateful I am to have seen that video 🙏💖 I finally understand perspective way better than I did 10 minutes before watching your video QwQ
It feels good when a guy meets another one who also understand the CHAOS when he diving into the perspective world. It feels like I need to like this great video to see.
Wow. I feel like all other videos were telling me what to do, and you're the only one who has told me the how or why. This is the first time I understood. Thank you.
thank you so much, the eye level part where you explained how every item parallel with the ground has a vanishing point to the horizon line was soooo helpful, it was such an eye opener, thank you so much and i cant wait for you to post the light and shadows video!
This video makes something as daunting as perspective very easy to understand. Man! I wish this video was available when I just started learning! Keep up the good work sir, you're doing the art community a huge solid. 👍
I'm legit crying when u showed me this... Like thank you so much you have no idea how much you've helped me in my journey as an aspiring artist, all the books and videos I've seen NEVER gave an explanation as clear and concise as yours. Thank you so much
I have watched sooo many videos going over perspective and vanishing points, etc and yours was the most helpful video so far. You really have a talent for teaching these things . Thank you so much for this video!
I spent a lot of time learning perspective and searching for answers for my questions until I found this precious video which worth more than like or share Thanks alot
This is pure Gold. More of this very detailed everyday life perception/observation stuff for artists pls. It should be its own series. Its super helpful and i dont see noone else doing it.
The BEST video on perspective I‘ve seen so far! fantastic job, wonderful way to conceptualise and explain some of the bits that seemingly never get discussed. Thank you!!
Thanks and keep doing this. Best tutorial I ever saw on YT, that explains important things about perspective, that everyone else usually ignores in there's videos.
Perfect examples for how to see and use perspective in daily life. This is beyond textbook information that most artists use in their description and explanation. You make it easier to understand. Thank you.
first half of the vid was like "ok i know this" but then came the complete revelation that the vanishing points of different objects it at the eye level like wtf lmao, i love this
Awesome explanation! Especially the one with the eye levels in the beginning, using your dog as an example of a different eye level was a genius idea. You are not only a good artist but also a good teacher. Thanks once again for the video. 👍👍👍
I’ve been doing comics for over 2 decades and you are the first person to explain perspective this well. The open lid on the box I had never noticed and up until this point I just guessed. This is perfection
Some of this I knew intuitively, but it's so helpful to have a clear explanation for it. The stuff I didn't know intuitively we're things I was drawing incorrectly also! Important to learn
you're a really naturally brilliant teacher man, thank you! i find it super hard to understand visual concepts via RUclips normally but i feel like i actually understand a little more now!
Best explanation of the horizon and perspective that I have heard. Love how you always manage to explain things from the learner's point of view (and here literally!). It is great that you remember how things were for you when you were learning this. Someone has probably said it that the best teachers are the best learners. Thank you, Kenzo!
I've watched a ton of videos on perspective and vanishing points, but this is by FAR the best video out of everything else on RUclips. It's so simple and easy to follow, and your practical examples were exceptional for getting the light bulb to finally switch on. THANK YOU for not just drawing more boxes on a piece of paper!
Really pleased you liked the video. Of course I am at an advantage over most people on YT as I have Maggie as my trusted perspective assistant, haha! Thanks!
Your video is so underrated. Super useful, I had just started trying to grasp the eye-level thing right before I looked this up, now I'm a little closer.
Thank you so much for these lessons. I've been learning perspective (and all the other drawing fundamentals because I'm a super beginner!) and it's nice to see a video where I see it used aside from sheets of paper haha
this helped so many things click in my head that had never clicked in years ☺️ you really gave a gift for teaching, thanks so much for sharing with us!
Thank you for clarifying this: when I googled questions about the horizon line/eye level relationship I was amazed at the amount of 'experts' who said they are different and I couldn't make sense out of that. Your video clarifies everything there.
This was a very helpful video! I am currently majoring in visual arts at Wake Tech Community College, and I want to major in studio art at a four-year university once I graduate from and finish my studies at Wake Tech. But if there was ever a school subject that has frustrated me the most, it would ironically be art!
This was a clear, coherent and cogent explanation of perspective. It demonstrates the mastery you have of your subject, which your lucky subscribers benefit from. Bravo Kenzo
This is awesome, probably the first lesson on perspective that touches on ACTUAL issues and struggles beyond those two-points basic things that hardly will be enough for many situation involving perspective drawing.
When you think of the perspective in terms of geometry, it becomes clear that all parallel lines in a plane that is will converge at the horizon or eye level line. I boldfaced the word “ because it explains why the edges of a tilted box will converge at a line that is above the horizontal line; the more tilted the lid, the more that converging line would be. For the same reason, all parallel lines on a downward slope will converge at a line below the horizontal line.
I don't think I've seen/read anything on perspective that is as clear and concise as this video. Thank you and well done!
Check out Perspective Made Easy by ER Norling, you should be able to find a PDF with a google search, probably the most concise yet thorough perspective book I've read and covers a lot of these ideas
And i cant believe i have the same thing to say while being just 10s into the video.
👑👑👑👑👑👑
Jesus loves you :)
same. its extremely necessary to make good backgrounds as well
8 years of drawing and no one ever told me about 5:05. Thanks so much! >
That's what you call a vanishing trace! It is always directly 90 degrees to the horizon line
Yes. Really useful.
Jesus loves you :)
If that wouldn't happen, every line included in a horizontal plane (imaging your notebook been filled up with random lines) would lead to the vanishing point. Observation, obstervation...
you're right tbh the entire video opened up a new world to me lol the eye level thing is such a basic concept to understand but I've never really made the connection until this video. wow
I don't think i've ever been as shook as when I saw the eye level-line part and how the eyes stayed on the horizon line as you got closer to the camera... Huge moment of revelation for me, thank you so much!!!! Same with all the packages' lines converging at the horizon line despite not being parallel!!
that's great Jaime i'm glad it was useful!
Yeeees, I never fully understood that and when I saw it I was like woooooooooooooooooooooooow 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Walking around the streets became unimaginably interesting for me. It’s like I have ignored all of these peculiarities and now I can see and enjoy them. Thanks, Kenzo!
Your method of teaching makes difficult topics easy to understand. This is the most easy-to-digest perspective teaching I've come across yet! Thanks Kenzo.
A great teacher is also a great learner. And vice versa. Thanks a lot for the video!
Ohhh the box lid thing! No one ever told that to me and it always confused me cuz I couldn't spot how perspective worked with those. Thank you so much!
Not even paid courses taught me this.
I don't feel so terrified about perspective now! Thank you so much! ❤️✨
You can't possibly imagine how grateful I am for your videos. They're changing my life for the better!
So glad I clicked on this video. Finally someone explains these.
This is a huge blessing. Thank you for compiling all these examples together! To understand something effectively, getting "perspective" to tackle a topic from multiple angles with simplicity is priceless to me!
Excellent proof that the horizon is always eye-level. I live in a valley. Thank you so much for simplifying this proof.
Lesson: The horizon is not physical
as we were taught outside of art class. I was a rare case because I loved art and science. I became a draftsman before computers and my drawing was always technical. Art and descriptive geometry taught me these horizon principles.
Application:
Ships do not go over the horizon. Look through binoculars and the ship will come back. The horizon line will move above the bottom of the ship.
I will look to see if anybody else has good art lessons showing that the bottom of an object always disappears first on a flat surface. That is unresolved angular resolution. People need to learn these things:
Oceans are level. Water is level. Gyroscopes indicate airplane level/parallel with sea level on the attitude (angle) indicator instrument.
(altitude/height above sea level known by air pressure)
this is the best explanation of the fluctuations in perspective drawing that I have ever watched, read or heard. I wish this had been around 20 years ago. Would have saved me a ton of headaches.
this video finally helping me understand why I've always struggled w/eye level... I'm very much someone who learns from walking around real life and observing the world, as is recommended here. eye level never connected with me.
watching 1:22... yeah that's what I always hear. then i get to 2:16. and I get it now. i get why eye level never clicked.
i am small.
Growing up art teachers did not spend much time teaching the importance of eye level, not to mention the importance of its function in this depth! Thank you! Even though it's 4 years old😅😅😁✌🏽
The trick for finding the lines for the tilted sides of the box is blowing my mind in the best way. Wow.
Thank you so much for making this! I'm teaching myself perspective and so have been trying to observe things more intentionally in everyday life. And today while walking up stairs, I realized that there was a vanishing point above my eye level/the horizon. This confused the heck out of me, having learned that the vanishing point always falls on the horizon line. Now the mystery is all cleared up :) Really appreciate you teaching perspective with real-life objects as opposed to drawings. Hope you can do more of these perspective videos.
Cheers! 😊
OMG, I'm almost 70 years old and I learned a lot of new stuff watching this video. See, you can teach an old dog new tricks. Thank you for this eye-opening information.
I had three different professors at art school attempt to explain this over the course of three years, and none of them ever explained it so simply, so succinctly and so concretely as you did. Thank you.
Kenzo, you're such a natural teacher! I get sucked into every video because I never feel lectured to. I feel like a friend has had an epiphany and can't wait to share their new knowledge with me so that we can both be excited about it.
thanks Sterling that is awesome! half the time this is stuff i'm just figuring out and am super excited about so that makes sense :)
exactly the way I feel about his teaching. he is so honest with his own challenges. he is such a natural!
OMG, I thought I KIND OF understood eye level, I was wrong. NOW I understand eye level. Thank you.
These too videos on persective are so helpful and so clear. You don't just talk about boxes, you make us understand it with real life. Best videos i've seen to undestand perspective so far. Keep doing them and thank you so much! Can't wait for the ones about lights and shadows! :)
Oh my gosh! I have been teaching high school Drawing for 26 years, and have never found such a clear and perfectly visual video as this and your other videos. Adding them to my lectures starting today! Well done. Thank you!!
This really hit home for me. My entire life I've considered myself perspective savvy and aware. As you stated in one of your videos, there's a huge difference between being trained to be architecturally aware and life aware, but what a difference it made from the artist's eye level and point of perspective... a cold glass of water right in the kisser it was...as the subject disappeared below the midpoint of the canvas! In 78 yrs I've never once thought about it. The picture instantly became real for me psychologically and emotionally..
Man, finally!!!! It's easier to determine eye level with shots of buildings, outdoors, etc. But with close-ups and plain backgrounds I found it impossible. With the arm you showed at the end, finally understood. Thank you!
Viewing eye level not as a line but as a plane/level of elavation along with how rotation kinda offsets vanishing points brought me from being basically clueless about perspective to being able to point out eye level in almost any photo regardless of subject. Thx
This taught me so much more in a few minutes than I’ve ever learned before
everything is clearer now and much easier to understand and interpret
thank you very much for these simple but effective explanations
I come back to this video from time to time just to get my mind blown all over again. Very clear and enlightening.
Thanks Dan!
Finally, a tutorial who explains what happens when an object is inclined in vertical
2:02 That's one happy dogo :)
i never understood how to place the horizon line before and it was the one thing that always confused me about drawing in perspective (especially looking up from the ground because the POV would have to be the height of a person). im literally stunned. this helped so much. this video is 4 yrs old but thank you lollllll!!!
Thanks Kenzo. This is very enlightening
I know this is 5 years old, but I really found the thing about the eye level staying the same as a subject moves closer/further away a revelation. I’ve always found perspective a bit tricky, so thank you for that! Subbed!
glad it helped!
Man just I wanna thank you that you are exist in this world
Wow! Amazing teaching!! Who knew there was so much to how our brain naturally interprets what we are looking at! ...and to be able to capture the same effect on a canvas we have to know how the brain calculates what we are looking at in order to correctly paint for the same effect.
You don't know how grateful I am to have seen that video 🙏💖
I finally understand perspective way better than I did 10 minutes before watching your video QwQ
Photography is not as easy as many people think to be. This video is very helpful. Thank you.
i’m watching this for homework and it is really educational thank you so much!
It feels good when a guy meets another one who also understand the CHAOS when he diving into the perspective world. It feels like I need to like this great video to see.
This is the best perspective video I’ve seen yet. Bless you
Thank you for not repeating the same explanations found elsewhere! This was truly useful :)
I've just had my mind blown. Honestly, thank you for this video because I've never learned of this or at least not so in depth.
the hand at the end explain every thing clear..thank you
Wow. I feel like all other videos were telling me what to do, and you're the only one who has told me the how or why. This is the first time I understood. Thank you.
Oh my god never in my life have I understood perspective more. Thank you so much!
Thank goodness - a terrific presenter that explains things in a clear and friendly way without trying to inflict his personality on us. Excellent.
Thanks Jane!
This is the sweetest tutorial! You and your dog, I can't stop smiling. Fantastic information as well, thank you so much
thank you so much, the eye level part where you explained how every item parallel with the ground has a vanishing point to the horizon line was soooo helpful, it was such an eye opener, thank you so much and i cant wait for you to post the light and shadows video!
I'd always get confused about which way cross contours curve. This is so helpful!
This video makes something as daunting as perspective very easy to understand.
Man! I wish this video was available when I just started learning!
Keep up the good work sir, you're doing the art community a huge solid. 👍
I'm legit crying when u showed me this... Like thank you so much you have no idea how much you've helped me in my journey as an aspiring artist, all the books and videos I've seen NEVER gave an explanation as clear and concise as yours. Thank you so much
I have watched sooo many videos going over perspective and vanishing points, etc and yours was the most helpful video so far. You really have a talent for teaching these things . Thank you so much for this video!
I spent a lot of time learning perspective and searching for answers for my questions until I found this precious video which worth more than like or share
Thanks alot
This is pure Gold.
More of this very detailed everyday life perception/observation stuff for artists pls.
It should be its own series.
Its super helpful and i dont see noone else doing it.
Thanks Damian :)
holy moly dudeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. this is by far the most useful perspective explanation wtf. how does this only have 54k views.
Thank you Kenzo. You are my savior and always come on time with he right content I needed most
Superb...explanation is great ..and simple to understand....thanks...
Thank you so much for a lot information regarding this perspective thing. I wish lot of inspiring artist or people will see this.
Grand slam! Super concise, .clear and of immediate use
The BEST video on perspective I‘ve seen so far! fantastic job, wonderful way to conceptualise and explain some of the bits that seemingly never get discussed. Thank you!!
The lamp post example was what did it for me.
Thanks and keep doing this. Best tutorial I ever saw on YT, that explains important things about perspective, that everyone else usually ignores in there's videos.
Yeah, I mean, yeah. I just read some of these comments and we are all in agreement - this video is SUPER HELPFUL and CONCISE. Thanks again, Kenzo.
Perfect examples for how to see and use perspective in daily life. This is beyond textbook information that most artists use in their description and explanation. You make it easier to understand. Thank you.
"So now it feels like chaos..." when the box opens...like an unexpected jolt to this story on a breakfast table. :P
first half of the vid was like "ok i know this" but then came the complete revelation that the vanishing points of different objects it at the eye level like wtf lmao, i love this
Awesome explanation! Especially the one with the eye levels in the beginning, using your dog as an example of a different eye level was a genius idea. You are not only a good artist but also a good teacher. Thanks once again for the video. 👍👍👍
I have watched so many videos now on perspective and this has explained so much they didn't explain. Can't thank you enough!!!!!
I’ve been doing comics for over 2 decades and you are the first person to explain perspective this well. The open lid on the box I had never noticed and up until this point I just guessed. This is perfection
Never understood perspective until now. Thank you so much!
Some of this I knew intuitively, but it's so helpful to have a clear explanation for it. The stuff I didn't know intuitively we're things I was drawing incorrectly also! Important to learn
I teach perspective and have never seen a better demonstration or explanation thanks
The gem of perspective videos
you're a really naturally brilliant teacher man, thank you! i find it super hard to understand visual concepts via RUclips normally but i feel like i actually understand a little more now!
thanks Nick that means a lot!
maan i love the way you teach! best tutorials i´ve seen since years. no joke =) pls keep your style
Thank you Kenzo :) Another great lesson !!!
Best explanation of the horizon and perspective that I have heard. Love how you always manage to explain things from the learner's point of view (and here literally!). It is great that you remember how things were for you when you were learning this. Someone has probably said it that the best teachers are the best learners. Thank you, Kenzo!
I've watched a ton of videos on perspective and vanishing points, but this is by FAR the best video out of everything else on RUclips. It's so simple and easy to follow, and your practical examples were exceptional for getting the light bulb to finally switch on. THANK YOU for not just drawing more boxes on a piece of paper!
Really pleased you liked the video. Of course I am at an advantage over most people on YT as I have Maggie as my trusted perspective assistant, haha! Thanks!
This was so clearly explained! I'll be forever staring at lamp posts. Thank you!
i have watched a ton of art tutorials online and you are one of the best if not the best!
Super useful info! but i had to watch the video 3x because i was distracted by that cute dog! 🤣
This is a golden video talking about something hard to find any where else. Thank you for sharing!
Very smart way of demonstrating perspective.
Awesome explanation, It has never been more clear to me! Keep it up.
Your video is so underrated. Super useful, I had just started trying to grasp the eye-level thing right before I looked this up, now I'm a little closer.
Thank you so much for these lessons. I've been learning perspective (and all the other drawing fundamentals because I'm a super beginner!) and it's nice to see a video where I see it used aside from sheets of paper haha
this helped so many things click in my head that had never clicked in years ☺️ you really gave a gift for teaching, thanks so much for sharing with us!
Thank you for clarifying this: when I googled questions about the horizon line/eye level relationship I was amazed at the amount of 'experts' who said they are different and I couldn't make sense out of that. Your video clarifies everything there.
This was a very helpful video! I am currently majoring in visual arts at Wake Tech Community College, and I want to major in studio art at a four-year university once I graduate from and finish my studies at Wake Tech. But if there was ever a school subject that has frustrated me the most, it would ironically be art!
Great video! This explained a lifetime of things about perspective, I didn't understand in just over eight minutes.
i feel mindblown. Amazing teacher! very easy to understand
This was a clear, coherent and cogent explanation of perspective. It demonstrates the mastery you have of your subject, which your lucky subscribers benefit from. Bravo Kenzo
Thank you Mark. I don't have mastery yet though, still learning it all and a long way to go :)
That’s the most informative video I’ve seen in ages...
thanks!
This is brilliant how you explaned in such a simple way.
Thank you.
Thank you for the incredible & understanding way of explaining perspective. I will have to read several times in order to retain. Awesome!
This is awesome, probably the first lesson on perspective that touches on ACTUAL issues and struggles beyond those two-points basic things that hardly will be enough for many situation involving perspective drawing.
finally someone talking about it in a way I can understand! thank you very very much!
When you think of the perspective in terms of geometry, it becomes clear that all parallel lines in a plane that is will converge at the horizon or eye level line. I boldfaced the word “ because it explains why the edges of a tilted box will converge at a line that is above the horizontal line; the more tilted the lid, the more that converging line would be. For the same reason, all parallel lines on a downward slope will converge at a line below the horizontal line.
Your videos are amazing and really calm me down