From the course: Illustrator: Perspective Drawing

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Type of perspectives

Type of perspectives

- Adobe Illustrator has three presets representing the three types of perspectives available. They are a one point perspective, which consists of a ground plane and one vertical plane, a two point perspective, that has a ground plane and two vertical planes, and a three point perspective, which has three planes. Each perspective grid represents the amount of vanishing points in the grid. One point has one vanishing point, two points has two vanishing points, and so on. In a one point perspective, the vertical surfaces are parallel to the view, and the horizontal aligns to the vanishing point. This view is used primarily when you want the front to face directly towards the viewer. A two point perspective with its two vanishing points allows you to draw the same object as the one point perspective but is rotated, so that you can now see more than one surface. The vertical lines are still parallel to each other. And finally, a three point perspective adds a third vanishing point, giving…

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