DVD Recommendation: Scott Robertson – Basic Perspective Form Drawing
If you have ever wanted to learn how to draw things in perspective the tutorial by Scott Robertson Basic Perspective Form Drawing is a goldmine.
Scott starts out gentle by teaching by example how to draw guides for 1,2 and 3 point perspectives. Then building on that to draw simple boxes and planes. Moving on we learn how to draw ellipses in perspective. With these basics learned, Scott shows how to extrapolate shapes in perspective, translating simple shapes using some very cool tricks.
The tutorial then goes on to drawing complex shapes such as car bodies, organic shapes, and planes in perspective using the techniques demonstrated in earlier lessons.
If you come away from this DVD having gone through and learned all these techniques for drawing in perfect perspective, you can do some amazing stuff with ease. This tutorial is an absolute goldmine that is not to be missed if you want to learn how to draw complex technical shapes.
The techniques are all shown from a top view of Scott drawing freehand on paper; but can easily be translated to programs such as illustrator or Photoshop. In fact, many of these techniques will be easier to execute on a computer, where you don’t have to have perfect freehand line-drawing skill.
You can find the DVD at the Gnomon site here It’s available as a direct download and is only 39 dollars; and the video quality is great – unlike a few other tutorials I purchased at gnomon where the quality was to low to properly see what was going on.
For 39 dollars its a bargain.
