Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today I will give you a simple but powerful tip
on how to correctly draw people at different distances.
I will be taking this from the chapter on perspective, in my book the "Basics of Drawing, The Ultimate Guide for Beginners"
I'll sketch this on an iPad using the program Procreate.
First we draw the horizon line
which also indicates the eye level of the viewer.
On a new layer let's sketch a basic framework of a person.
This type of simplified skeleton helps a lot, when drawing from memory or imagination.
It helps us to easily get the proportions right
knowing that ideally there are 8 head-lengths in the body
and that the 2nd. length of the head will get to the nipples...
the 3rd. one to the belly button, the 4th. to the crotch,
which is half the body,
and the 6th. will be just below the knees.
But that's a subject for a different tutorial.
I leave the link in the description of this video.
Let's draw our vanishing point, which can be anywhere on the horizon line
and draw lines from the middle of the base of the feet
and from the top of the head, to it.
If you are not drawing digitally, of course you can use a ruler.
And let's say that we want to draw another person, at this distance,
now we know how tall he or she should be.
This is super easy.
But what about if we want to draw more people,
for example: here
and between those 2 but to the right?
or.... let's say here all the way to the left?
at a different distance?
How tall you would draw them?
it's very simple!
Draw a horizontal line
from the point you want them to stand,
all the way to our vanishing line.
Then go up vertically to the other line,
and that's the correct height!
We transfer it horizontally to where our new person will be.
I may divide that length in 4 equal sections,
to help me get the proportions right.
Notice that the height at the horizon line is consistent for all.
It crosses each person at the belly button.
If we had drawn it at the knee level or the shoulder level
of the 1st. person, that would also be consistent for the rest.
And we do the same thing for the last one.
We make a line horizontally,
to the vanishing line, go up
and back to the spot.
This of course gives us a person of exact same height as the original,
but at the distance.
If you want a shorter or taller person than the original
from that height you would take or add a little.
If you made it all the way to this point, I would love to know it!
Please in the comments write me the secret code:
"Sexy Skeletons" [laughter].
and it's ready!
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and I will see you with more creations on Tuesday ;)
Subtitled by Grethel Trejo