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What is a Vanishing Point?

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Summary: Knowing about the vanishing point in drawing is essential to creating perspective in your artwork. Learn about vanishing points for figure drawing in this free video art lesson.

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By Craig Browder
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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

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"And the best way to describe this is, you know, if you've got, you can either draw, you know, multiple boxes and just kind of cut the human out. You know how I was talking about circles, whatever, start with a box of anything that's going into perspective and then, you know, start from there. Hold on one second. Give an example. I don't know if you see this guy over here but I'll finish him up later. So, say, we've got, you want to draw maybe, like, you know, Superman or some sort of super character that you've created to, you know, fly or whatever. And, so, instead of having him stand asymmetrical and all, not impressive, we'll actually draw a character who looks like he's flying through the air and flying back into space. And the best way to do that is to start with a box. Remember when I was talking about those seven, the seven heads, you have your own head and then you have seven more after that. Well, it's just like if you're picking a spot, to vanish it to."

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