Digital Matte Painting: 2 Perspective
2h 37mBeginner2013-08-27
Authors
David Mattingly
Matte Artist, Illustrator, Author, and Instructor
Course details
An accurate perspective drawing is an essential base for most matte paintings. Learn how to create linear perspective drawings of a castle in Adobe Photoshop with this course, and migrate the lessons to your own project. David Mattingly, a matte artist for many groundbreaking motion pictures, teaches you about the three types of perspective, and how to set up vanishing points, find and rough in the forms in your painting, add detail like crenellations, draw ellipses, and polish the final drawing.
Learning objectives
Understanding the three types of linear perspective
Preparing your concept sketch for drawing
Setting up vanishing points
Finding the first boxes in perspective
Roughing in the other rectilinear forms
Creating a flat crenellation
Plotting measuring points
Drawing ellipses
Adding repeating details to walls
Delineating the background
Learning objectives
Understanding the three types of linear perspective
Preparing your concept sketch for drawing
Setting up vanishing points
Finding the first boxes in perspective
Roughing in the other rectilinear forms
Creating a flat crenellation
Plotting measuring points
Drawing ellipses
Adding repeating details to walls
Delineating the background
Skills covered
Digital PaintingPhotoshopAdobeAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Introduction
- 02 - Using the exercise files
1. Perspective Definitions
- 03 - The three types of perspective
- 04 - Basic perspective terms
- 05 - The three types of linear perspective
2. Setting Up Your Vanishing Points
- 06 - Preparing your concept sketch for perspective drawing
- 07 - Setting up vanishing points using the Path tool
- 08 - Stroking the paths
3. Finding the Forms in Your Concept Painting
- 09 - Finding the first boxes in perspective
- 10 - Dividing a form in perspective
- 11 - Roughing in the other rectilinear forms
- 12 - Clean drawing
4. Adding Unique, Unifying Details to Your Castle
- 13 - Creating a flat crenellation
- 14 - Distorting crenellations into perspective
- 15 - Adding back sides to crenellations
- 16 - Towers and domes
5. Ellipses
- 17 - Basic ellipse anatomy
- 18 - Drawing ellipses in perspective
- 19 - The most common mistake in drawing ellipses
- 20 - Plotting measuring points
- 21 - Determining your master ellipse
- 22 - Building an ellipse bank
- 23 - Adding the final ellipses
- 24 - Dividing an ellipse
- 25 - Adding structural lines to the walls and bastions
6. Finishing Your Perspective Drawing
- 26 - Adding repeating details to the walls
- 27 - Adding details to the domes and towers
- 28 - Delineating the background
- 29 - Recommended books on perspective
Conclusion
- 30 - Goodbye