Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Law Of Perspective: Two Point Perspective



Two point perspective is a bit more complicated than on point so for those who have read The Law of Perspective: One Point Perspective, you should be following along quite well. For Those who haven't, look at my previous post.

Two point perspective is basically the same a one point, except that there are now two vanishing points. I have heard many people say that two point perspective looks a bit strange, and that is because of two reasons. First of all, anything in two point perspective is almost always in a 3/4 view. Second, it is stretched by two vanishing point so that if you cover up one or the other vanishing point, it would still look correct.


Again, the example.

Try covering up the perspective lines on one side of the box, then the other.

By looking at only one perspective, the box seem correct in shape but looking at both

perspectives at the same time makes it kind of distorted.




Try looking at buildings from a street corner. you'll see two point perspective.