Eye Level - An Essential Perspective Tip for Artists
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We are learning how to practise training our artist's eye during everyday life, because unfortunately, we can't be drawing 24/7.
In this video, we are looking at eye level and how that affects what we are seeing. Eye level and horizon lines are really useful for understanding perspective, whether you are drawing landscapes, figures or objects.
We look at how eye level affects the way you see people and things depending on their distance from you, the difference between the eye level and horizon, what happens when things tilt and how things are angled or curved depending on whether they are at your eye level or not.
My dog steals the show in this one. Hope you enjoy it!
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0:00 Introduction: Horizons & Eye Level
2:29 When the ground's not flat
3:03 Vanishing points
3:37 Tilting objects
5:23 Examples
7:03 Final Thoughts - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
I don't think I've seen/read anything on perspective that is as clear and concise as this video. Thank you and well done!
Check out Perspective Made Easy by ER Norling, you should be able to find a PDF with a google search, probably the most concise yet thorough perspective book I've read and covers a lot of these ideas
And i cant believe i have the same thing to say while being just 10s into the video.
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same. its extremely necessary to make good backgrounds as well
Your method of teaching makes difficult topics easy to understand. This is the most easy-to-digest perspective teaching I've come across yet! Thanks Kenzo.
I don't think i've ever been as shook as when I saw the eye level-line part and how the eyes stayed on the horizon line as you got closer to the camera... Huge moment of revelation for me, thank you so much!!!! Same with all the packages' lines converging at the horizon line despite not being parallel!!
that's great Jaime i'm glad it was useful!
Yeeees, I never fully understood that and when I saw it I was like woooooooooooooooooooooooow 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
8 years of drawing and no one ever told me about 5:05. Thanks so much! >
That's what you call a vanishing trace! It is always directly 90 degrees to the horizon line
Yes. Really useful.
Jesus loves you :)
If that wouldn't happen, every line included in a horizontal plane (imaging your notebook been filled up with random lines) would lead to the vanishing point. Observation, obstervation...
you're right tbh the entire video opened up a new world to me lol the eye level thing is such a basic concept to understand but I've never really made the connection until this video. wow
Walking around the streets became unimaginably interesting for me. It’s like I have ignored all of these peculiarities and now I can see and enjoy them. Thanks, Kenzo!
A great teacher is also a great learner. And vice versa. Thanks a lot for the video!
I don't feel so terrified about perspective now! Thank you so much! ❤️✨
Ohhh the box lid thing! No one ever told that to me and it always confused me cuz I couldn't spot how perspective worked with those. Thank you so much!
Not even paid courses taught me this.
You can't possibly imagine how grateful I am for your videos. They're changing my life for the better!
This is a huge blessing. Thank you for compiling all these examples together! To understand something effectively, getting "perspective" to tackle a topic from multiple angles with simplicity is priceless to me!
this is the best explanation of the fluctuations in perspective drawing that I have ever watched, read or heard. I wish this had been around 20 years ago. Would have saved me a ton of headaches.
Thank you so much for making this! I'm teaching myself perspective and so have been trying to observe things more intentionally in everyday life. And today while walking up stairs, I realized that there was a vanishing point above my eye level/the horizon. This confused the heck out of me, having learned that the vanishing point always falls on the horizon line. Now the mystery is all cleared up :) Really appreciate you teaching perspective with real-life objects as opposed to drawings. Hope you can do more of these perspective videos.
Cheers! 😊
The gem of perspective videos
These too videos on persective are so helpful and so clear. You don't just talk about boxes, you make us understand it with real life. Best videos i've seen to undestand perspective so far. Keep doing them and thank you so much! Can't wait for the ones about lights and shadows! :)
I teach perspective and have never seen a better demonstration or explanation thanks
It feels good when a guy meets another one who also understand the CHAOS when he diving into the perspective world. It feels like I need to like this great video to see.
This is a golden video talking about something hard to find any where else. Thank you for sharing!
I have watched sooo many videos going over perspective and vanishing points, etc and yours was the most helpful video so far. You really have a talent for teaching these things . Thank you so much for this video!
This taught me so much more in a few minutes than I’ve ever learned before
Thank goodness - a terrific presenter that explains things in a clear and friendly way without trying to inflict his personality on us. Excellent.
Thanks Jane!
Oh my gosh! I have been teaching high school Drawing for 26 years, and have never found such a clear and perfectly visual video as this and your other videos. Adding them to my lectures starting today! Well done. Thank you!!
everything is clearer now and much easier to understand and interpret
thank you very much for these simple but effective explanations
2:02 That's one happy dogo :)
Thanks Kenzo. This is very enlightening
This really hit home for me. My entire life I've considered myself perspective savvy and aware. As you stated in one of your videos, there's a huge difference between being trained to be architecturally aware and life aware, but what a difference it made from the artist's eye level and point of perspective... a cold glass of water right in the kisser it was...as the subject disappeared below the midpoint of the canvas! In 78 yrs I've never once thought about it. The picture instantly became real for me psychologically and emotionally..
Thank you Kenzo :) Another great lesson !!!
Thank you for not repeating the same explanations found elsewhere! This was truly useful :)
This is the best perspective video I’ve seen yet. Bless you
Thanks and keep doing this. Best tutorial I ever saw on YT, that explains important things about perspective, that everyone else usually ignores in there's videos.
Thank you Kenzo. You are my savior and always come on time with he right content I needed most
This video makes something as daunting as perspective very easy to understand.
Man! I wish this video was available when I just started learning!
Keep up the good work sir, you're doing the art community a huge solid. 👍
The trick for finding the lines for the tilted sides of the box is blowing my mind in the best way. Wow.
Thank you so much for a lot information regarding this perspective thing. I wish lot of inspiring artist or people will see this.
I had three different professors at art school attempt to explain this over the course of three years, and none of them ever explained it so simply, so succinctly and so concretely as you did. Thank you.
Awesome explanation! Especially the one with the eye levels in the beginning, using your dog as an example of a different eye level was a genius idea. You are not only a good artist but also a good teacher. Thanks once again for the video. 👍👍👍
just wanted to say ive never found such a concise and easily legible tutorial on perspective as this. love your videos, a constant source of inspiration and knowledge :)
You don't know how grateful I am to have seen that video 🙏💖
I finally understand perspective way better than I did 10 minutes before watching your video QwQ
Best explanation of the horizon and perspective that I have heard. Love how you always manage to explain things from the learner's point of view (and here literally!). It is great that you remember how things were for you when you were learning this. Someone has probably said it that the best teachers are the best learners. Thank you, Kenzo!
I just LOVE this kind of videos you make! It’s beyond helpful and I have never seen anyone teach it this way on TH-cam before. Again incredibly useful. Thank you for your hard work making them.
Really helpful. Best lesson on perspective I've received yet.
this video finally helping me understand why I've always struggled w/eye level... I'm very much someone who learns from walking around real life and observing the world, as is recommended here. eye level never connected with me.
watching 1:22... yeah that's what I always hear. then i get to 2:16. and I get it now. i get why eye level never clicked.
i am small.
OHMYGOSH! Love that you did another video in this series. I love how you referenced and expanded upon the examples from the last video. Again you addressed my common confusions! THANK YOU!!!!
Thank you so much for these lessons. I've been learning perspective (and all the other drawing fundamentals because I'm a super beginner!) and it's nice to see a video where I see it used aside from sheets of paper haha
Another fantastic video Kenzo! Thanks for this. A great help in thinking of perspective!
thank you so much, the eye level part where you explained how every item parallel with the ground has a vanishing point to the horizon line was soooo helpful, it was such an eye opener, thank you so much and i cant wait for you to post the light and shadows video!
Oh my god never in my life have I understood perspective more. Thank you so much!
i found this very enlightening, thanks Kenzo!
Kenzo, you're such a natural teacher! I get sucked into every video because I never feel lectured to. I feel like a friend has had an epiphany and can't wait to share their new knowledge with me so that we can both be excited about it.
thanks Sterling that is awesome! half the time this is stuff i'm just figuring out and am super excited about so that makes sense :)
exactly the way I feel about his teaching. he is so honest with his own challenges. he is such a natural!
OMG, I'm almost 70 years old and I learned a lot of new stuff watching this video. See, you can teach an old dog new tricks. Thank you for this eye-opening information.
Thank you so much for making this video!! I've really struggled to make drawings in perspective where the lines don't all line up perfectly with a vanishing point. Thank you for making everything so clear, this was very useful (and Maggie is an amazing dog!!)
This is the sweetest tutorial! You and your dog, I can't stop smiling. Fantastic information as well, thank you so much
Man, finally!!!! It's easier to determine eye level with shots of buildings, outdoors, etc. But with close-ups and plain backgrounds I found it impossible. With the arm you showed at the end, finally understood. Thank you!
Finally, a tutorial who explains what happens when an object is inclined in vertical
Super useful info! but i had to watch the video 3x because i was distracted by that cute dog! 🤣
finally someone talking about it in a way I can understand! thank you very very much!
I've just had my mind blown. Honestly, thank you for this video because I've never learned of this or at least not so in depth.
Perfect examples for how to see and use perspective in daily life. This is beyond textbook information that most artists use in their description and explanation. You make it easier to understand. Thank you.
Thank you so much for doing this ! it's help a lot to see exemples in "real life" in a video, with your masking tap and everything ! You're a really great teacher ! I'm really grateful for your videos !
Growing up art teachers did not spend much time teaching the importance of eye level, not to mention the importance of its function in this depth! Thank you! Even though it's 4 years old😅😅😁✌🏽
The BEST video on perspective I‘ve seen so far! fantastic job, wonderful way to conceptualise and explain some of the bits that seemingly never get discussed. Thank you!!
Dude this video is pure awesomeness
maan i love the way you teach! best tutorials i´ve seen since years. no joke =) pls keep your style
Wow! Amazing teaching!! Who knew there was so much to how our brain naturally interprets what we are looking at! ...and to be able to capture the same effect on a canvas we have to know how the brain calculates what we are looking at in order to correctly paint for the same effect.
Wow. I feel like all other videos were telling me what to do, and you're the only one who has told me the how or why. This is the first time I understood. Thank you.
This is absolutely fabulous. I kind of understood perspective prior to this video, but this explains is so clearly that it will be ever etched in stone now in my mind. Thanks for this insight fullness and keep the videos coming.
Thank you very much for this useful information! I’m looking forward to your next video! ^_^
Thank you so much for this video! I'm really loving this series!!!
I’ve been doing comics for over 2 decades and you are the first person to explain perspective this well. The open lid on the box I had never noticed and up until this point I just guessed. This is perfection
Grand slam! Super concise, .clear and of immediate use
Awesome explanation, It has never been more clear to me! Keep it up.
This channel is totally brilliant. Thankyou so much
Thank you! Perspective is something I really struggle with when it comes to my art and you’ve helped me understand it so much better!
Thank you! A small gem on my road to understand perspective! :D
Your videos are amazing and really calm me down
I’ve never seen your videos before, but I’m so glad this popped up. I’ve watched videos about perspective before but this was the best one. I will subscribe!
This is amazing! This video really helped in me practicing to draw figures
Thanks, Kenzo! Very informative, you are a great teacher!
Best perspective vid I've seen. Very clear and well explained and it clears up a few questions that are pretty hard to find answers to
this is one of the best videos ive seen on perspective ever thank you
EXTREMELY valuable video. Congrats, this opened my eyes
i’m watching this for homework and it is really educational thank you so much!
OMG, I thought I KIND OF understood eye level, I was wrong. NOW I understand eye level. Thank you.
this is brilliantly helpful, thank you! thank you! thanks!
cleared out so many doubts thank you!
AWESOME! Thanks so much!
I come back to this video from time to time just to get my mind blown all over again. Very clear and enlightening.
Thanks Dan!
Wow-You explained this so beautifully! Thank you for putting in the efforts to demonstrate so many aspects of perspective!
i have watched a ton of art tutorials online and you are one of the best if not the best!
Thank you so much for your videos!! I find them incredibly helpful :)
thank you Jo :)
Such a good visualisation. Great to see this artbook knowledge in the form of moving picture!
Very smart way of demonstrating perspective.
This is pure Gold.
More of this very detailed everyday life perception/observation stuff for artists pls.
It should be its own series.
Its super helpful and i dont see noone else doing it.
Thanks Damian :)
By far the best explanation I've heard about horizon line. Keep up the good work!!!
I have watched so many videos now on perspective and this has explained so much they didn't explain. Can't thank you enough!!!!!
i feel mindblown. Amazing teacher! very easy to understand
Really encourages me all the time. Thanks Kenzo !
Superb...explanation is great ..and simple to understand....thanks...
this is the tip i was looking for, thanks!! your teaching is amazing.
Excellent proof that the horizon is always eye-level. I live in a valley. Thank you so much for simplifying this proof.
Lesson: The horizon is not physical
as we were taught outside of art class. I was a rare case because I loved art and science. I became a draftsman before computers and my drawing was always technical. Art and descriptive geometry taught me these horizon principles.
Application:
Ships do not go over the horizon. Look through binoculars and the ship will come back. The horizon line will move above the bottom of the ship.
I will look to see if anybody else has good art lessons showing that the bottom of an object always disappears first on a flat surface. That is unresolved angular resolution. People need to learn these things:
Oceans are level. Water is level. Gyroscopes indicate airplane level/parallel with sea level on the attitude (angle) indicator instrument.
(altitude/height above sea level known by air pressure)
I felt everything come together after watching this. Great video!