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Summary: Learn how to draw the middle plane of a 3-D drawing in this free video art lesson.
Craig Browder started drawing at an early age. He has a degree from Kendall College in Industrial Design. He does freelance design work which can be seen on surf boards, boogie boards,...read more
"You want to do the same on the other side, so, if this point meets, we've got a point here, so the point's going to start here. And we could draw it in, you could, what I would suggest is actually drawing another plane. Well, I should do that. I'm going to draw another plane. So we've got this back plane, we've got a side plane, we're going to draw another plane here. So, this basically, what we're doing is actually creating, this is how they would make miles in the computer, three dimensionally. They would take a three part drawing like you would do in drafting and you would have a top view, a front view, a side view. And then with those three views you could actually just, on a three dimensional scale, like you could just draw and put them all together, nice and slowly. And this is exactly how they would do it in the computer. This is old school. So like I said last time, if you're getting confused, wait until I execute it and then pause it and then do it yourself. So you're not getting lost. Alright. We have the middle of this guy, this is what we're looking for. I'm just kind of drawing in all the extra lines just so we know exactly what we're looking at here. Okay. Now so this is the top of this guy, so he's going to repair the middle, the top of this guy as well. We'll slow down here for a minute just so people can kind of see what I'm doing. Probably doesn't help that I've got the drawing skewed. So you're saying like, whoa, look at all these lines, what the heck am I doing with all these lines? But essentially what we've got here is if you can see it, you can start to train your eye but we've got a box here, in the middle plane, we've got the back box here, and then we've got the new box which is between, so it's basically this middle plane but now it's this way."
eHow Article: Drawing the Middle Plane of a 3-D Drawing: Pt. 3