The Secret To Making Perfect Perspective Guidelines!

Are you ever curious to know if your object has the same proportions when it's far away? Perfect perspective guidelines will be the key to making sure that your object will have the same proportions regardless of where you place it!

The secret is utilizing both one point and two point perspectives. With these three vanishing points set up, you can make an infinite degree of perspective freedom that you know is always correct.

Interested? Here's how!

Bring up your digital canvas and let's get started on learning this key concept.

1. The vanishing points

I recommend doing this on a very large canvas so you can import your guidelines later and use it as a perfect measurement tool.

Your perfect perspective guidelines must start off with the correct vanishing points. Divide your canvas into four pieces and do the triangle that is shown in the two point perspective lesson.

In the middle, do two lines from the middle of the canvas to start off your one point perspective. If you want to be absolutely perfect, you can duplicate the layer and flip it horizontally. That way, it will be symmetrical.

It doesn't matter how wide the two lines of the one perspective point is. However, the more closer the lines are together, the more detailed guides you will get.

2. The intersection points

In step two, we will create the necessary intersection points from the guides given in step one. This is where you perfect perspective guidelines will slowly reveal itself!

From one corner of the two point perspective, draw a line from the corner all the way down to the other side of the the quadrant. Make sure that it crosses the middle line that divides your canvas into two pieces.

Repeat for the other corner. The key here is to make sure it crosses perfectly with the middle line and the diagonal line that is drawn from the opposite corner.

If done correctly, the intersections will create a reference point on each side of the two lines created from the one point perspective point.

3. Rinse and repeat

Just remember to use use the intersections to create additional reference points to draw your perfect perspective guidelines.

In this case, the work flow goes from the bottom all the way up. Copy and flip the layer if you need to create perfect symmetry.

As you may find out, the more lines you do, it becomes harder to see the intersections since the lines bunch up as you move closer to the horizon. Do as many as you can without getting confused.

This is why it's a good idea to do on a larger canvas so you have enough room to work with in additional to importing the guidelines out to be used in the near future.

4. Expanding on perfection

Guess what? With your perfect perspective guidelines created, you can build upon your framework and create other multiple point perspectives with ease.

Not only that, you will know it will be correct as long as you know how to intersect the lines through this perfect perspective checker board.

Some examples come to mind is the zero point perspective and the three point perspective. As you can see, I'm carefully using the intersections of the checker board to create new perspectives.

But don't just stop there! As I mentioned before, you can import this to another file, increase the size, and use it for digitally painting your environment. Make sure to save the picture with transparency options on so you can paint underneath it.

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