Art Tutorial: Three Point Perspective

[Caius]

Otherwise known as ants eye or birds eye view, Three point perspective deals with your horizon line being very low or very high. Again for this exempt I'm going to use a building to demonstrate this. For a birds eye view, you want your third vanishing point to come from above, while for ants eye view you want it to come from below instead.

For my example I'm using an ant's eye view for a tall building. Follow me on this one. Notice that the construction lines come from the top and sides to meet their specific vanishing point.

Let's start the actual building now.

Now I will say that actually building with three point perspective is a royal pain. I'm not kidding. It just gets to that point where you wonder why you even try and begin to claw your face. The big thing that will make it look realistic is the addition of detail, so just keep adding details and you'll get there eventually.

And there you have it, a finished product using basic three point perspective. Yes there are some mistakes with this, but I'll go back and fix them later. You get the idea and that's what's important.

Now you should have a good idea of one point, two point and three point perspective, however you must also keep in mind there can be more than one horizon line to make an image. It's art, the sky's the limit.

 

[Marcus]

Did this in art this week, ironically enough.
Anyway good job.

 

[Caius]

Did this in art this week, ironically enough.
Anyway good job.

thanks. It's still fun stuff.

 

[spamurai]

Looks cool. I use 3pt perspective when drawing houses. Nice work.