Perspective for comics,tips tricks and techniques

#1

Hello, I am relatively new at posting here, though I’ve been lurking on these forums for quite a while now doing my best to learn what I could, and I’ve been relatively getting better. There’s one area that continues to baffle me though, perspective. I guess I have difficulty learning, or the books I’ve been reading aren’t the best material for learning this kind of thing.

I don’t exactly have the money for proper schooling, or anymore books. I’d appreciate whatever aid the members of this forum can give me. This is a serious plea from someone who is in dire need of some help with his work. So please post whatever tutorials or techniques you find are usefull. Thank you for your time.

#2

Not sure that there is a seperation between ‘Comic’ perspective and the rest, it’s all the same though I suppose you might find a more focused book - however that would also mean it’s cutting out a lot and doing the same thing as everyone else.

Here is a link to more than you ever wanted to know about perpective, and this is just the first page. It’s a bit troublesome to decifer, however I would definetly go over it several times … I need to as well actually haha.

http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/perspect1.html

#3

Thank you for the link, and when I said perspective for comics I meant aid in depicting the various angles and scenes dynamically as you typically see in a lot of comics and graphic novels. I know the basics of perspective, I’m having difficulty depicting them in my work, especially when it comes to comics.

#4

Thanks T-Scholes that was a kick ess link!!!

reminds me I need to brush up on my perspective a bit…

:thumbsup:

#5

That’s only the first page :wink:
Keep going, it gets worse/better.
Edit; ah, it’s not clearly linked - here:
http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/tech10.html

Be more specific if you would, what exactly are you having trouble with? You’ve labeled the context but not the problem.

#6

Thanks again T-Scholes

around here locally I usally the guy people ask when they have problems doing their perspective in their drawings and paintings…

but this page you put up… (all of em’) has stuff I have never seen before…

really good matterial…

:arteest:

#7

I said, I’m having problems using perspective in my comics, I can construct an images using the basics, but when it comes to using dynamic camera angles and the like my perspective falls through the floor. Figures look out of place and they just don’t look like they’re standing on ground.

#8

norvman - Yeah man, check out the rest of the site too. Great section on more than you’d ever want to know about color theory too haha. So you’re the perspective guy? How about some lessons :wink: ?

Dacon - Ok, so it’s not a specific problem - just a bit of a stumbling block. Hmm, I think if I were you I’d try using Google Sketchup to create just the basic scene, as well as place a figure in the scene. It’s an incredibly intuitive modeling program that google has made available for free. I’d just make a simple scene - flat boring blocks to get you thinking, place your figure where you need it and then not only mess around with the viewpoint but mess around with the Field Of View (FOV) to get more extreme angles (Under the camera menu). Make sure you go through the included tutorials and the online videos - should only take 30 minutes or so. Use this to get a feel, an idea for what you are after. However understand that it can become a crutch, use it to learn first and foremost - not a replacement!

#9

That looks like it’ll prove to be pretty usefull, thanks. I’ve never even heard of this program before.

#10

Yah Dacon I would have to recomend the same stratgie…

back when I was first starting out in drawing in the 70s… we didn’t have computers but we had all kinds of drafting equipment … I know many professional comic artist at that time used all kinds of drafting equipment at the sketch board to get themselves orented into the drawing faster…
I’m talking some of the greats like Kirby, Phillps, Rosema, Adams, Neal,… on and on and on…
so considering that those… helper tools (drafting equipment)… were there then is there reason to not do the same thing with the ‘tools’ you have at hand ?.. besides… most guys I have talked to (and I have spoken to some of the above at past comic and fantasy cons…) say after awhile you don’t need the tools so much anymore… but they are great to get started with and every now and again you will grab them when you have a new drawing situation that you after many years, have never quite drawn it from this agle before…

concider it this way… every single time you do a piece of artwork you learn something … and you remember…

use every tool at your disposal…

Anywayz… hope that helps…

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