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Drawing the illusion of depth

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Drawing the illusion of depth

- [Voiceover] When I'm approaching the end of a drawing I have sort of a mental checklist of questions I ask myself. I ask them to guarantee that I've made the strongest drawing possible when it comes to creating this sort of magic illusion of depth. So one of the first questions I ask myself is have I used what I know about linear perspective effectively? So if we superimpose these red lines on our sketch you can see how the roof lines go back to the vanishing point, the sidewalk does, I feel like linear perspective right here is being used very effectively to create this deep space. I also think if we look over here to the edge of this sidewalk this almost to me feels like an entry point, like hey, come into my picture. This line brings us back and I really feel like I could just walk down this street. So linear perspective I feel is being used here pretty nicely. Another idea that I love, because it's so dramatic and it's sometimes slightly unbelievable is to take the relative…

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