Creating the illusion of perspective – Three-point linear perspective

Onward to three-point perspective!

I’ve previously described one-point perspective and two-point perspective in these methods pages. Together, they cover a great many real-world situations. Three-point is intriguing, because in a sense, it’s the purest linear perspective – with all directions receding from the viewer’s eye. There are also practical uses for looking up at tall buildings or with wonderful bird’s eye views and looking down on your world!

I recently covered the basic principles in a workshop video, explaining it from the starting point of a two-point perspective drawing (with apologies for some wobbly video quality in a couple of places):

Here’s a good step-by-step primer website: https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/technical-drawing-for-beginners-three-point-perspective–vector-23680

A bird’s eye view

Many Happy Vanishing Points!