SVS Learn – Basic Perspective Drawing

Unlock your storytelling potential by learning how to draw in perspective

Too often we let our weakness hold back the stories we want to tell. Don't let perspective drawing hold back your storytelling potential. Professional illustrator David Hohn breaks down the basics of one and two point perspective in a way that is simple and easy to understand.

Every illustration David creates starts with the principles taught in this course and uses perspective in a way to enhance his storytelling instead of hindering it.


In this class you will learn:

The basics of one and two point perspective

How to draw clean, straight lines and smooth, even ellipses

Where to put the horizon line and vanishing points in your drawing

What an orthogonal is

What the cone of vision is, and how to avoid common mistakes in perspective drawing

How to use a square plane as a unit of measurement in one and two point perspective

How vanishing points expand and contract as an object is rotated in perspective

How to draw multiple objects with different vanishing points in the same drawing

The anatomy of an ellipse

How to find the major and minor axis in an ellipse