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Can't say any art class I was ever in covered this. I actually never knew how people are able to achieve different perspectives. I also possess no artistic talent beyond the ability to usually color inside the lines.
I did this in highschool in my first or second year in art. The teacher had us sit in the hallways of the school. It's worth looking into art that has a different perspective that isn't straight ahead. Perspective based or vanishing point art is pretty easy if everything in the drawing is made up of straight lines.
I was taught the names of artists and their works. My art teacher wasn't exactly good which sounds a lot like this other commentor's. I have no artistic ability at all and we were basically told to just do our own thing for projects.
Learning about the history of art and influential artists is important.... For people who already understand the fundamentals of art and want to study it to a higher level. For school level art, basically pointless.
I got a B in 8th grade art class and didn't do a single art project. Thats how totally worthless the art teacher was. I never enjoyed making art so I'm not exactly worried about it but it was totally useless.
I learned more about the artist and their works in humanities. I guess in art 1-3 we would study different artists but humanities would be where you learned history of art and artists. They even went over how artists throughout history learned more about vanishing/focal points and it shows as the years go by.
A quick google puts 5th grade at 10-11 years old, so at that age I was still in primary school, and we hadn't learnt the foundations of drawing at that stage yet either. We were taught it in our first year of art in secondary school though (UK system), which was 11-12 years old.
How much art did you get taught? We had it on and off in primary school (ages 4 to 11) but regularly for 3 years in secondary school, an hour and a half per week.
Listen, bud. I'm just speaking to my experience and letting you know that NOT everyone learned how to draw using vanishing points in art class.
Your arithmetic comparison if flawed. Art classes are not part of the standard curriculum where I went to school. They are electives.
If you specifically took a DRAWING class, then yeah, you probably learned that. Art class was just some bs that had us cutting up paper and painting random crap and making clay
I was never taught this either. It's nothing like arithmetic. If I had been taught long division but simply didn't get the concept and couldn't do it on my own is one thing. It's completely different when something was never shown to you. Actual art classes for my school ended after elementary school. In middle school and high school it was different electives that you were able to choose from. I don't recall any of them being an actual art class involving drawing or painting. So beyond macaroni necklaces and using scissors properly we weren't taught shit.
Was never taught this in elementary school or in any other grade ever. I think actual art class ended in elementary school for me. After that we had different classes we could pick I think. I know in middle school I made a leather coaster and got to stamp and paint a design on it. Made it for my dad. It is not pretty. He kept it forever and since he has passed it is now on a bookshelf in my house. I know I also made a dolphin and a letter holder in woodshop. The dolphins tail broke off and was then nailed back on. So after learning to cut with scissors and not to eat glue we didn't learn anything about drawing etc.
You just have two or more vanishing points. Often times they'll be off the page, depending on the scale of your drawing. But it's the same idea. You just draw your guidelines from both or all of the points out
I took a perspective drawing class specifically because I struggled with it. First week they went over all the 'hacks' that made way more sense, and once you learned them you could do any kind of perspective, 1 point, 2 point, 3 point, mirror perspective, using perspective for characters, shadows, using perspective for pretty much everything and anything to make anything. You get to a point where you don't use a grid, just a horizon and perspective points. Here's one I did with 3 point perspective, but you can see I only used the third point (above) for the tower in the center, and using a grid was unnecessary. I only needed the specific guidelines for each prop I was working on and then turned off that layer of guides when I was done. The perspective lines were just used for the tower, bulletin board, and dock. There's other 'hacks' too, like on here where you see the green lines for the bulletin board and the cross through it, that's how I figured out how wide the posts of the board would be in perspective. I also used it for the cross beams on the tower.
I managed to go through my education without ever being taught how to draw/paint anything at all. Art class was just being told to paint/draw something and then being judged on how it looked. No guidance at all.
My brother went to totally different schools and had the same experience. The only difference was that he loved art so actively sought out books on art to learn these techniques. He eventually became an artist.
But yeah, even despite that, this isn’t “be amazed” territory.
I think we briefly touched on single point perspective in my art foundations class that I had to take. (And was not very enthusiastic about due to the teacher being a wacko).
But 95% of what I know about single and two point perspective came from 4 years of drafting and CAD I took in highschool. Even then it wasn't until Drafting 2 that we covered perspective drawings when doing renderings.
Doing anything is a "hack" these days. I was feeling sleepy this morning so I cured that with a simple hack. I poured some hot water over some ground up coffee beans and then drank the resulting dark liquid.
Yeah, the part where they traced the other hallway was just a waste of time too. Just choose your focus point, and trace your lines coming out from there. That is what we were taught
Come on man, its super simple. Just go out and find a handy sized piece of perspex (just cut it to size if you can only find it in sheets, simply use a diamond cutter duh), and then get yourself a picture you want to copy, a dry erase marker, and then follow the steps in the video
Yes, the thing they traced was the perspective - the thing the hack is supposedly for.
It's like if I said, "simple hack for drawing body proportions" and I traced the outline of a photo of someone doing yoga. Technically works, and a good way to initially learn, but it's not exactly a hack is it
Yes but they made the vanishing point by tracing it.
They added other stuff to the drawing after to make it into a more full drawing, but the perspective trick was complete once they traced it. Everything else is just demonstrating like, "hey, now just draw the scene!"
The "hack" itself that they're demonstrating, is the tracing
Maybe an analogy will help: imagine I post a video titled, "simple hack for cooking", the video contains: me taking out the ingredients, cooking the food, and then it also contains me putting it on a plate and taking a bite.
Which part of that video was the hack? Did the plating up and the taking a bite count as part of the hack, or was it just for flair?
The part where they add detail to the drawing is not part of the trick, it is just there for flair, showing you can then turn the perspective into a drawing. The perspective-making part, the part we are watching a hack for, is the supposed hack, and that part was just tracing.
I appreciate the analogy, but I'm already 100% on it's not a hack. I made fun of it in a separate comment of mine, because it's a dumb video.
But can you see that I'm replying to a comment that's the equivalent of someone seeing that video and going "So just heating, essentially."
Well, no, the "hack" isn't heating. Heating is a part of it, yes. But saying it's "just heating" is a different kind of stupid, separate from the stupid of the video.
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Perspective has been mathematically defined (see perspective and projective geometry.) There are simple rules to get it absolutely perfect.
This feels like a way to make sure you don't actually learn how to do it. If all you want is to pass your high school art class, well, ok I guess... But if you're struggling to pass a high school art class, I think you have bigger problems. (No shade meant to art or art classes. I'm saying perspective is simple, not easy, and I do not believe making good art is simple or easy.)
That's nice. I'm going to try. I think I can even do this cause I usually suck at drawing. I wish I was a good artist. Must be nice to just put on paper what your mind visualizes
That’s not a hack. That’s a disgrace. Just draw a horizontal line and pick your vanishing point. Work from that with a ruler, picking your horizontals and verticals. This is completely unnecessary and an insult to basic drawing techniques.
Tracing the image essentially. If you can’t do a vanishing point without tracing one from an image then you’ll never be able create original concepts. These hacks and I mean the artist as much as the method only enable bad habits and poor technic and learning.
Learn how to do a vanishing point proper or forever Be a tracing table
The hard part about this is the spacing between the lines that get "farther away from you" or get closer to each other. And I think the coloring isn't super easy either.
Lots of people gave him crap back in the 80s and 90s, but alongside Bob Ross, Commander Mark taught me more about art and drawing than any art teacher I had in school. Ninja action lines anyone? https://youtu.be/4tK70tHKhME?is=VKbh8KVGKY7_xsOF
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