I still dont get it

[yinteck]

Ok, the question.

How do i draw a correct perspective when the vanishing point is out of my paper ???
I know one is by adding another paper.

I know there is another more technical way. I did research on the web and asked my friend, he a interior design student. Their answer is by adding another paper. But if my vanishing point is 2 or maybe 3 A3 paper, that would be ..... you know.

Hope you guys get what i mean.:bashful:

[Craig D]

You can tack a piece of string down as far out as you need to. I geuss thats a low tech approach.

[HunterKiller_]

Rulers?

[Elwell]

Work out the perspective at a small scale, get down the major guidelines, enlarge, and eyeball the rest.

[archipelago]

eyeball it... it'll be hard to learn but it will pay off in the end!

[yinteck]

Eyeball it ???
Is it judging with my eye ???

[Anid Maro]

Yup, like Archipelago said, it can be difficult but unless you really like your ruler it is worth it to learn how. And the method of learning how is just to study from life.

A trick I use when I find that a drawing is too complex for me to eyeball the perspective is that I first plot out the major perspective lines and use those as reference for working out the rest of the perspective. As long as it looks like the lines are approaching the appropriate vanishing point, that's good enough. After all, if the vanishing point is that far off of the page, I doubt anybody is going to notice if the lines don't match up exactly.

Unless you're drafting a mechanical diagram, you don't need to be perfect, you just need to make sure everything works in relation to one another (i.e. lines all point, more or less, towards their proper vanishing point and nowhere near the other vanishing points).

[yinteck]

Ok! Thanks guys !

[Seedling]

Put your paper on a board so that you can use a T-square.

Pick two lines that converge somewhere way out of your image. Call those lines correct. Every other line that points to the same vanishing point will have to be measured against those two.

Use the T-square to make two parallel lines, some distance apart, that cross your correct lines.

Look at the sections of those lines between correct line A and correct line B. Measure with a ruler to find the middle of those segments, or the top third, etc. Draw a line connecting the two points. Voila, you have just created another line that correctly hits that far-away vanishing point.

I just figured this one out by messing around. I’m sure that there are books full of precise tricks like this, because architects have been drawing in perfect perspective forever.

[wheezy]

http://www.amazon.com/Perspective-Made-Easy-Ernest-Norling/dp/0486404730

[Seedling]

http://www.amazon.com/Perspective-Made-Easy-Ernest-Norling/dp/0486404730

LOL! I think that's the book I have sitting on my bookshelf. Er, unread. I really should get around to reading it, because it looks like a good book. ;-)

[Elwell]

Norling's book is a good introduction, although maybe a little too simple. I also like David Chelsea's Perspective! for Comic Book Artists.

[Mirana]

Norling's book is a good introduction, although maybe a little too simple. I also like David Chelsea's Perspective! for Comic Book Artists.

Ditto. You run into more complicated situations than what Norling covers. Chelsea's book runs the gamut of fantastical problems and solutions...all in comic book (ie show, not tell) format.

[Number_6]

This (http://www.merekatcreations.com/) tutorial could be of use to you, though in practice it doesn't seem as simple as the author is making out. I think some of the suggestions in this thread are more useful.

To save you some time if you want to try this, here's (http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2982/typegaugelv2.jpg) a type gauge I made (I think it's accurate, but I don't know if the jpg compression could have messed it up). You can just print it on to thin card and cut it out to use like the Haedler rule in her tutorial.

[yinteck]

:D Thanks ! :)

[Moai]

Thanks for the handy info and links, peeps!