Need a Little Help? Use These Perspective Diagrams to Aid You!

Some times, it’s always nice to have a foundation to work from. These are perspective diagrams that I have done to help you out. I have done the guide lines from one point perspective all the way up to four point perspective.

Of course, I will teach you how!

I’m also giving you some room to work with because you will need to learn how to use these guide lines effectively. Therefore, the last perspective point, which is the five point perspective, I will let you learn how to create it.

What do you need to know about these diagrams? Well, you can start by understanding the file format they are in, as it allows you to understand how these diagrams will integrate into your digital art program of choice.

1. The transparent gif

There are two types of files that exist on the net: jpg and gif files.

While jpg are great for compressing picture files into a manageable size while still retaining picture quality, gif files are equally useful in that it offer two particular feature advantages: animation and transparency.

Animation just simply means you can create animated icons or pictures. Transparency implies that the background of the picture is transparent while the object is solid.

For example, these gif files are transparent. In other words, guide lines are solid but the ‘white’ background is actually transparent, which allows you to place the diagrams on top while you paint underneath the diagram.

2. Importing the gif files

First, you need to open up your digital art program of choice and start up a new digital canvas. These files have a screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels. That means, depending on your canvas, it may or it may not cover all of it once you import the gif files.

The next logical step would be to open the gif files. Normally, there is always a method of importing the files. Some digital art programs have an import option while you may need to carefully look for it in other digital art programs.

In case you can’t find the importing option, you can always drag and drop the files from the folder onto the opened digital art program itself. This would be your second option.

In most cases, the digital art programs will import these files as a new layer.

3. The diagrams

You need to click on the image. This will bring up a new window with the full sized version of the particular perspective diagrams that you want. From there, all you need to do is right click and save them onto your computer!

One point perspective:

Two point perspective:

Three point perspective:

Four point perspective:

Remember these perspectives? If you are having troubles with these concepts, please revisit the articles that deal with these points of perspective.

4. Using the perspective diagrams

Once you’ve imported one of the perspective diagrams onto your digital canvas, the next order of business is to learn how to manipulate them. With your layers box, as any good digital art program should have, manipulate the transparency of the perspective diagrams.

Here are a few things you can try:

• Change the guide line colors from blue to something else.
• Draw more guide lines to what is already given.
• Change the size of the diagrams to focus on one sector of it.
• Duplicate the diagram layers.
• Move the diagrams around.

You can even try making your own five point perspective by combining one point perspective with this perspective diagram:

Then, merge them together into its own separate layers and manipulate it some more! Of course, you can always make your own diagrams that will fit what you need.

Once you’re done creating a perspective that you want from the diagrams, the next logical step is to paint using these guide lines!

But even before that, you need to learn about colors. So keep up the motivation to learn so you can continue your journey to activate the master in you!

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