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MicahJGunnell In reply to jbyrd117 [2012-07-06 06:48:05 +0000 UTC]

If you look at the answer I gave to the other person who asked about it you might be able to figure it out. I can't remember where I learned that trick, but its really useful when you have a vanishing point that is REALLY far off of the page. It takes a while though. A good book on perspective is "Perspective for Comic Book Artists" if you're interested.

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jbyrd117 In reply to MicahJGunnell [2012-07-06 15:33:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. I'll check out that other reply. I actually have that book and while I understand perspective I just don't ever seem to know how to apply it. I think I need to actually see a artist do a comic book page from layouts to finished pencils. I never know if I should start making the environment perspective and try to fit the figures in there in correct perspective or if I should draw the figures first and fit the perspective around that etc.

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MicahJGunnell In reply to jbyrd117 [2012-07-07 09:16:11 +0000 UTC]

It depends on the shot, but usually I decide the perspective before drawing anything. I just do a freehand perspective grid to rough it out and get the shot the way I want it, then once I'm happy with that, I use a ruler to get the horizon line and vanishing points.

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MicahJGunnell In reply to tZuB [2012-07-06 06:46:14 +0000 UTC]

Sorry, I just saw this question! Like a year later...I suck...Anyway, yeah...Its tough to explain how I did that, but I didn't actually place the vanishing point. Basically, you have to use a trick that involves putting one unit of measurement on one side of the page(say, for example, 1 inch marks on the left side, vertically) and then on the other side, you put a different unit of measurement(say, 1 and 3/4 of an inch vertically). When you draw lines connecting each dot on the right side, to each dot on the left side, it creates your perspective for that vanishing point. Hopefully that makes sense. Thanks for the kind words, and sorry for taking so long to answer!

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tZuB In reply to MicahJGunnell [2012-07-06 14:15:47 +0000 UTC]

Wow! ok! I was taught a similar kind of trick too, but it is more "mathematical". I think I understand what you're saying looking at your page again. Just to be sure, I hope I'm not completely dumb, the right VP is out of the page but looks quite near so you found it without this trick, right?

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MicahJGunnell In reply to tZuB [2012-07-06 14:27:35 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I only use that when necessary...For the other one I think I just taped an additional piece of paper on the side and used a long ruler to draw the lines from the vanishing point.

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