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Putting things in perspective allows you to have a

clearer idea of a problem or worry. 

Keep calm

You won't believe your eyes!

Let's create an optical illusion to see the power of perspective in flat drawings. Watch this video. You can try it yourself!

Perspective in art

There are some basic tricks and secrets artists use in perspective drawings:

Different scales for the objects

To make things look close up or far away, draw them smaller and smaller Scale

Overlapping objects

You just need to overlap the objects in your picture. Overlap

Distance to the bottom

Increase the distance to the lower margin of the paper for further objects. Distance

Perspective

Perspective is kind of a mix of all the previous techniques. When we draw in perspective, we make our artwork look more realistic and 3-dimensional.

In perspective we use:

  • Horizon line
  • Vanishing point
  • Vanishing lines
Perspective

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