Urban Architectural Sketching with Ink
Perspective and Vanishing Points
A course by Dan Hogman , Architect and Illustrator
About the video: Perspective and Vanishing Points
Overview
“I will now discuss key concepts such as the one-point and two-point perspective, using a street photo from a location in NYC as an example. You will learn how to identify the vanishing points and the horizon line as critical tools for accurate perspective construction.”
In this video lesson Dan Hogman addresses the topic: Perspective and Vanishing Points, which is part of the Domestika online course: Urban Architectural Sketching with Ink. Learn how to draw like an architect by exploring observational illustration techniques, including perspective, scale, and composition .
Partial transcription of the video
“ Perspective and Vanishing Points In this lesson, we'll talk about the concept of perspective. There are many ways to represent a volume and most of us would draw a cube like this. You can see, in this case, the top line and bottom line, for instance, are parallel. Without going into too much detail here, and there are books that talk about this, we can call this type of view isometric. You can see some lines are pointed to the top-right corner. They're all parallel. However, this is not the way we look at objects in real life. If this cube was a building, we'd be looking at it somewhat li...”
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Course summary for: Urban Architectural Sketching with Ink
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Category
Architecture & Spaces, Illustration -
Areas
Architectural Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Dan Hogman
A course by Dan Hogman
Dan Hogman is an architect and illustrator with over 20 years of experience. He began drawing at a young age and always knew he wanted to become an architect. He later went on to study for a Master’s degree in the subject at the Academy of Art, San Francisco, and later at Harvard University.
Since then, he has created hundreds of drawings for everything from high-rise residential developments to hotels across the US, China, and South Korea. Dan also takes on drawing commissions in his spare time, and shares his work with over 120K followers on Instagram, alongside teaching architecture at a graduate level.
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