How To Draw A Bird Eye

Looking downwardly A birdseye view

Understanding perspective is very of import if you desire to create height or depth in your drawing. The term used to describe a scene viewed from in a higher place is called a bird's-middle view. The term comes from the fact that the viewer's angle and perspective is the same as a bird's if it were flight high up in the air over the object. That doesn't hateful you have to draw the scene as if you're a half mile up in the sky; information technology just means that you lot're looking down at the objects y'all're drawing.

Figure 12-14:

The chair, table, and lamp in three-betoken perspective.

Figure 12-14:

The chair, table, and lamp in three-betoken perspective.

Three Point Perspective Lamp

Things fatigued in a bird'south-eye view fall into the iii-point perspective category and, if done correctly, can expect extreme and very dramatic. The bird's-eye view differs from this chapter's previous examples of three-indicate perspective simply because the object is viewed from directly (or nearly straight) above.

To draw things from this perspective, make sure that the top of the object is the area that's virtually visible. Because the bending is so dramatic, the vanishing indicate moving toward the third horizon line disappears below the object, and that vanishing point isn't visible from this angle. For an example, look at Figure 12-15. The bird'southward-eye view of the refrigerator is much more dramatic than a straight-on view. The area almost visible is the top, and yous can barely see the sides. Notice how you can see the milk and other food items on the shelves and on the inside of the open up door.

Yous can also describe other elements from a bird'due south-centre view. Effigy 12-16 shows an example of a utility truck. Chapter 9 explains how to draw a basic truck. Drawing it from a bird's-eye view creates a drawing that'south more visually interesting than other angles or views. The truck on the right is more than of a box shape, and the roof, hood, and truck bed are the areas that are most visible.

When you lot're attempting to draw from a bird-eye view, it may be helpful to use a prop, similar a toy truck, and then that y'all can run into how the vehicle looks from this viewpoint. Detect that the acme of the truck's roof is most visible, along with the bed of the truck. The right door is barely visible, and you lot can run into just a sliver of the back window on the cab of the truck and the tailgate. If you didn't brand these areas but slightly visible, the perspective wouldn't look correct. The fundamental is to study the object you lot're drawing from the correct perspective to be sure what you're cartoon is correct, from a perspective betoken of view. This angle is dramatic; it adds interest to the object and allows you more than means to tell a story.

Effigy 12-15:

The refrigerator from a bird'southward-center view.

Figure 12-sixteen:

A truck from the forepart and from a bird'due south-eye view.

Figure 12-15:

The refrigerator from a bird's-heart view.

Birds Eye View Pictures