Eye Level - An Essential Perspective Tip for Artists
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
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We are learning how to practise training our artist's eye during everyday life, because unfortunately, we can't be drawing 24/7.
In this video, we are looking at eye level and how that affects what we are seeing. Eye level and horizon lines are really useful for understanding perspective, whether you are drawing landscapes, figures or objects.
We look at how eye level affects the way you see people and things depending on their distance from you, the difference between the eye level and horizon, what happens when things tilt and how things are angled or curved depending on whether they are at your eye level or not.
My dog steals the show in this one. Hope you enjoy it!
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0:00 Introduction: Horizons & Eye Level
2:29 When the ground's not flat
3:03 Vanishing points
3:37 Tilting objects
5:23 Examples
7:03 Final Thoughts - Навчання та стиль
I don't think I've seen/read anything on perspective that is as clear and concise as this video. Thank you and well done!
Check out Perspective Made Easy by ER Norling, you should be able to find a PDF with a google search, probably the most concise yet thorough perspective book I've read and covers a lot of these ideas
And i cant believe i have the same thing to say while being just 10s into the video.
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same. its extremely necessary to make good backgrounds as well
8 years of drawing and no one ever told me about 5:05. Thanks so much! >
That's what you call a vanishing trace! It is always directly 90 degrees to the horizon line
Yes. Really useful.
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If that wouldn't happen, every line included in a horizontal plane (imaging your notebook been filled up with random lines) would lead to the vanishing point. Observation, obstervation...
you're right tbh the entire video opened up a new world to me lol the eye level thing is such a basic concept to understand but I've never really made the connection until this video. wow
I don't think i've ever been as shook as when I saw the eye level-line part and how the eyes stayed on the horizon line as you got closer to the camera... Huge moment of revelation for me, thank you so much!!!! Same with all the packages' lines converging at the horizon line despite not being parallel!!
that's great Jaime i'm glad it was useful!
Yeeees, I never fully understood that and when I saw it I was like woooooooooooooooooooooooow 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Walking around the streets became unimaginably interesting for me. It’s like I have ignored all of these peculiarities and now I can see and enjoy them. Thanks, Kenzo!
Your method of teaching makes difficult topics easy to understand. This is the most easy-to-digest perspective teaching I've come across yet! Thanks Kenzo.
A great teacher is also a great learner. And vice versa. Thanks a lot for the video!
I don't feel so terrified about perspective now! Thank you so much! ❤️✨
Ohhh the box lid thing! No one ever told that to me and it always confused me cuz I couldn't spot how perspective worked with those. Thank you so much!
Not even paid courses taught me this.
You can't possibly imagine how grateful I am for your videos. They're changing my life for the better!
This is a huge blessing. Thank you for compiling all these examples together! To understand something effectively, getting "perspective" to tackle a topic from multiple angles with simplicity is priceless to me!
This taught me so much more in a few minutes than I’ve ever learned before
This is a golden video talking about something hard to find any where else. Thank you for sharing!
this is the best explanation of the fluctuations in perspective drawing that I have ever watched, read or heard. I wish this had been around 20 years ago. Would have saved me a ton of headaches.
2:02 That's one happy dogo :)
Thank you so much for making this! I'm teaching myself perspective and so have been trying to observe things more intentionally in everyday life. And today while walking up stairs, I realized that there was a vanishing point above my eye level/the horizon. This confused the heck out of me, having learned that the vanishing point always falls on the horizon line. Now the mystery is all cleared up :) Really appreciate you teaching perspective with real-life objects as opposed to drawings. Hope you can do more of these perspective videos.
Cheers! 😊
this video finally helping me understand why I've always struggled w/eye level... I'm very much someone who learns from walking around real life and observing the world, as is recommended here. eye level never connected with me.
watching 1:22... yeah that's what I always hear. then i get to 2:16. and I get it now. i get why eye level never clicked.
i am small.
I come back to this video from time to time just to get my mind blown all over again. Very clear and enlightening.
Thanks Dan!
everything is clearer now and much easier to understand and interpret
thank you very much for these simple but effective explanations
This is the best perspective video I’ve seen yet. Bless you
Thanks Kenzo. This is very enlightening
Man, finally!!!! It's easier to determine eye level with shots of buildings, outdoors, etc. But with close-ups and plain backgrounds I found it impossible. With the arm you showed at the end, finally understood. Thank you!
Excellent proof that the horizon is always eye-level. I live in a valley. Thank you so much for simplifying this proof.
Lesson: The horizon is not physical
as we were taught outside of art class. I was a rare case because I loved art and science. I became a draftsman before computers and my drawing was always technical. Art and descriptive geometry taught me these horizon principles.
Application:
Ships do not go over the horizon. Look through binoculars and the ship will come back. The horizon line will move above the bottom of the ship.
I will look to see if anybody else has good art lessons showing that the bottom of an object always disappears first on a flat surface. That is unresolved angular resolution. People need to learn these things:
Oceans are level. Water is level. Gyroscopes indicate airplane level/parallel with sea level on the attitude (angle) indicator instrument.
(altitude/height above sea level known by air pressure)
Thank you for not repeating the same explanations found elsewhere! This was truly useful :)
I have watched sooo many videos going over perspective and vanishing points, etc and yours was the most helpful video so far. You really have a talent for teaching these things . Thank you so much for this video!
Viewing eye level not as a line but as a plane/level of elavation along with how rotation kinda offsets vanishing points brought me from being basically clueless about perspective to being able to point out eye level in almost any photo regardless of subject. Thx
These too videos on persective are so helpful and so clear. You don't just talk about boxes, you make us understand it with real life. Best videos i've seen to undestand perspective so far. Keep doing them and thank you so much! Can't wait for the ones about lights and shadows! :)
This is the sweetest tutorial! You and your dog, I can't stop smiling. Fantastic information as well, thank you so much
the hand at the end explain every thing clear..thank you
i’m watching this for homework and it is really educational thank you so much!
The trick for finding the lines for the tilted sides of the box is blowing my mind in the best way. Wow.
Wow. I feel like all other videos were telling me what to do, and you're the only one who has told me the how or why. This is the first time I understood. Thank you.
OMG, I thought I KIND OF understood eye level, I was wrong. NOW I understand eye level. Thank you.
This really hit home for me. My entire life I've considered myself perspective savvy and aware. As you stated in one of your videos, there's a huge difference between being trained to be architecturally aware and life aware, but what a difference it made from the artist's eye level and point of perspective... a cold glass of water right in the kisser it was...as the subject disappeared below the midpoint of the canvas! In 78 yrs I've never once thought about it. The picture instantly became real for me psychologically and emotionally..
Oh my gosh! I have been teaching high school Drawing for 26 years, and have never found such a clear and perfectly visual video as this and your other videos. Adding them to my lectures starting today! Well done. Thank you!!
I'd always get confused about which way cross contours curve. This is so helpful!
The BEST video on perspective I‘ve seen so far! fantastic job, wonderful way to conceptualise and explain some of the bits that seemingly never get discussed. Thank you!!
i never understood how to place the horizon line before and it was the one thing that always confused me about drawing in perspective (especially looking up from the ground because the POV would have to be the height of a person). im literally stunned. this helped so much. this video is 4 yrs old but thank you lollllll!!!
Wow! Amazing teaching!! Who knew there was so much to how our brain naturally interprets what we are looking at! ...and to be able to capture the same effect on a canvas we have to know how the brain calculates what we are looking at in order to correctly paint for the same effect.
Oh my god never in my life have I understood perspective more. Thank you so much!
I had three different professors at art school attempt to explain this over the course of three years, and none of them ever explained it so simply, so succinctly and so concretely as you did. Thank you.
You don't know how grateful I am to have seen that video 🙏💖
I finally understand perspective way better than I did 10 minutes before watching your video QwQ
Photography is not as easy as many people think to be. This video is very helpful. Thank you.
OHMYGOSH! Love that you did another video in this series. I love how you referenced and expanded upon the examples from the last video. Again you addressed my common confusions! THANK YOU!!!!
I've just had my mind blown. Honestly, thank you for this video because I've never learned of this or at least not so in depth.
Never understood perspective until now. Thank you so much!
Growing up art teachers did not spend much time teaching the importance of eye level, not to mention the importance of its function in this depth! Thank you! Even though it's 4 years old😅😅😁✌🏽
just wanted to say ive never found such a concise and easily legible tutorial on perspective as this. love your videos, a constant source of inspiration and knowledge :)
I just LOVE this kind of videos you make! It’s beyond helpful and I have never seen anyone teach it this way on UA-cam before. Again incredibly useful. Thank you for your hard work making them.
Thank you! Perspective is something I really struggle with when it comes to my art and you’ve helped me understand it so much better!
Thanks and keep doing this. Best tutorial I ever saw on YT, that explains important things about perspective, that everyone else usually ignores in there's videos.
Thank you Kenzo. You are my savior and always come on time with he right content I needed most
Thank you so much for doing this ! it's help a lot to see exemples in "real life" in a video, with your masking tap and everything ! You're a really great teacher ! I'm really grateful for your videos !
The lamp post example was what did it for me.
Best explanation of the horizon and perspective that I have heard. Love how you always manage to explain things from the learner's point of view (and here literally!). It is great that you remember how things were for you when you were learning this. Someone has probably said it that the best teachers are the best learners. Thank you, Kenzo!
finally someone talking about it in a way I can understand! thank you very very much!
OMG, I'm almost 70 years old and I learned a lot of new stuff watching this video. See, you can teach an old dog new tricks. Thank you for this eye-opening information.
This video makes something as daunting as perspective very easy to understand.
Man! I wish this video was available when I just started learning!
Keep up the good work sir, you're doing the art community a huge solid. 👍
Awesome explanation! Especially the one with the eye levels in the beginning, using your dog as an example of a different eye level was a genius idea. You are not only a good artist but also a good teacher. Thanks once again for the video. 👍👍👍
This is absolutely fabulous. I kind of understood perspective prior to this video, but this explains is so clearly that it will be ever etched in stone now in my mind. Thanks for this insight fullness and keep the videos coming.
Thank you so much for making this video!! I've really struggled to make drawings in perspective where the lines don't all line up perfectly with a vanishing point. Thank you for making everything so clear, this was very useful (and Maggie is an amazing dog!!)
Superb...explanation is great ..and simple to understand....thanks...
thank you so much, the eye level part where you explained how every item parallel with the ground has a vanishing point to the horizon line was soooo helpful, it was such an eye opener, thank you so much and i cant wait for you to post the light and shadows video!
Definitely the greatest video on perspective. Amazing video! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for a lot information regarding this perspective thing. I wish lot of inspiring artist or people will see this.
Wow-You explained this so beautifully! Thank you for putting in the efforts to demonstrate so many aspects of perspective!
I have watched so many videos now on perspective and this has explained so much they didn't explain. Can't thank you enough!!!!!
Grand slam! Super concise, .clear and of immediate use
This is brilliant how you explaned in such a simple way.
Thank you.
I spent a lot of time learning perspective and searching for answers for my questions until I found this precious video which worth more than like or share
Thanks alot
This was so clearly explained! I'll be forever staring at lamp posts. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video! I'm really loving this series!!!
Thank you! You really cleared up some of the perspective issues I was having.
Thank you for the incredible & understanding way of explaining perspective. I will have to read several times in order to retain. Awesome!
Really encourages me all the time. Thanks Kenzo !
This is amazing!! This answered some really important questions I had for a while. Thanks so much!!
By far the best explanation I've heard about horizon line. Keep up the good work!!!
Thank you SO much! I was having some difficulty determining the horizon line in some figures I drew - how you pointed this out - especially with the lap post gave me a Eureka Moment and got me excited to do art again :3
Man just I wanna thank you that you are exist in this world
This video first opened my eyes about eye level/horizon line in general, and I come back on this video every now and then for a quick refresher^^ thank you so much for this!! Currently I’m practicing this through character drawings and backgrounds from imagination👌
this is the tip i was looking for, thanks!! your teaching is amazing.
Yeah, I mean, yeah. I just read some of these comments and we are all in agreement - this video is SUPER HELPFUL and CONCISE. Thanks again, Kenzo.
I’ve been doing comics for over 2 decades and you are the first person to explain perspective this well. The open lid on the box I had never noticed and up until this point I just guessed. This is perfection
Really thanks! U have explained so much things about perspective drawing
i feel mindblown. Amazing teacher! very easy to understand
Thank you so much for these lessons. I've been learning perspective (and all the other drawing fundamentals because I'm a super beginner!) and it's nice to see a video where I see it used aside from sheets of paper haha
Kenzo, you're such a natural teacher! I get sucked into every video because I never feel lectured to. I feel like a friend has had an epiphany and can't wait to share their new knowledge with me so that we can both be excited about it.
thanks Sterling that is awesome! half the time this is stuff i'm just figuring out and am super excited about so that makes sense :)
exactly the way I feel about his teaching. he is so honest with his own challenges. he is such a natural!
Perfect examples for how to see and use perspective in daily life. This is beyond textbook information that most artists use in their description and explanation. You make it easier to understand. Thank you.
Thank you Kenzo :) Another great lesson !!!
Really helpful. Best lesson on perspective I've received yet.
Perfect explanation. Thank you, Kenzo!!!
Great video! This explained a lifetime of things about perspective, I didn't understand in just over eight minutes.
i have watched a ton of art tutorials online and you are one of the best if not the best!
Best perspective vid I've seen. Very clear and well explained and it clears up a few questions that are pretty hard to find answers to
this video literally opened my eyes to perspective. i can see the 3D space on the 2D paper so much clearer because of this. appreciate you sir
Some of this I knew intuitively, but it's so helpful to have a clear explanation for it. The stuff I didn't know intuitively we're things I was drawing incorrectly also! Important to learn
Another fantastic video Kenzo! Thanks for this. A great help in thinking of perspective!
I teach perspective and have never seen a better demonstration or explanation thanks
This is gold!
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Thank you very much!
this helped so many things click in my head that had never clicked in years ☺️ you really gave a gift for teaching, thanks so much for sharing with us!
got in your video as i started this week doing perspective!! learned a lot and understood it easier ^___^ thank you so much for this!!