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Edit: Obligatory "Holy smokes DD"! Thanks all :)

You've got environments, and you've got characters to place in them...but what if they're all standing in different points in space? How do you make sure they all look as tall as they are, or aren't? How do you make sure you don't have cars the size of buildings in the background? How do you make sure your skyscrapers don't look seven feet tall? Read the tutorial!

This is a principle I've seen abused too frequently, so I thought I'd put together something on how to make sure your figures and environments all agree from a perspective standpoint.

Note that you can do most or all of this using lines and vanishing points, but this is an easy bit of shorthand to make sure figures stay in proportion to each other, or to use when you're sketching.

I think I learned the general idea from an old issue of Draw! magazine, but this was all done out of my head. Therefore, please don't repost this, in whole or in part. Please do download it for your own use.

Check out one of my old comic pages and see this principle being abused in action: [link]

(C) James Pray 2010
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Suggester's words: Placing Figures in Perspective by ~kiolia would be an awesome DD someday. It is awesome and made the whole perspective thing suddenly MAKE SENSE in a way that several art classes never could. :) [Also suggested by ~arsieiuni.] ( Suggested by ~Jenetikitty and Featured by `FantasyStock )
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~Super-Aaron-360 4 days ago  Hobbyist General Artist
Very helpful and easy to understand. Thanks a bunch!
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~EvaDraye Apr 14, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
Wow, this really leaves every other perspective tutorial I've seen in the dust. Thanks!
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Mood: Wow! ~SUPREMEOVERL0RD Mar 9, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Wow this helps a lot and its easy to understand :D
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:iconkiolia:
Hey, good deal. Thanks!
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:iconesckid:
made me laugh, this helps a tonne =O
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:iconnick5200:
What about body movement in perspective?
Do you have some of those tutorials?
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:iconkiolia:
I don't, and I couldn't do better than Hogarth's "Dynamic Figure Drawing" anyway :). If this interests you, I highly recommend that book.
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:iconnick5200:
Ok, thank you sir.
This tutorial was usefull also, gues ill have to check out that book then.
:D
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:iconkunnai:
This very informative.
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~Dark-Zeblock Oct 14, 2012  Student General Artist
Hi :wave: Just so you know, your tutorial has been featured in :iconimprovement-club: journal. [link] :aww:
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