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How to place vanishing points • Martina Cecilia

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People who know the basics of perspective but are still at the beginning often find themselves in doubt in front of a white canvas on where to place vanishing points. There’s no real rule here but I can give tips that can help make a decision. Of course the more you’ll practice the more it will come natural to you. The natural instinct here is to place the horizon line and the vanishing point in the centre. There’s nothing wrong with it but you may want to save it for particular cases because it has the tendency to make the scene look static. Save for cases where symmetry is a necessary part of the image This is to be avoided as it will not help you in making your composition varied and interesting. If you move slightly from the centre both the horizontal line and the vanishing point the image will look more natural. Natural is good. Natural is what you look for 99% of the times. Be careful not to move the vanishing point too much, you risk a weird false perspective. Keep it still in t

and use perspective to help storytelling. first published on my deviantart account People who know the basics of perspective but are still at the beginning often find themselves in doubt in front of a white canvas on where to place vanishing points . There’s no real rule here but I can give tips that can help make a decision. Of course the more you’ll practice the more it will come natural to you. 1 point perspective The natural instinct here is to place the horizon line and the vanishing point in the centre. There’s nothing wrong with it but you may want to save it for particular

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