How to Sketch Believable Perspective More Quickly

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In this video demo, I do a quick sketch of an old ruins to show you a few useful tips for sketching buildings and structures with reasonably accurate perspective.

When you're sketching quickly, loosely or on location, you often don't have time to use vanishing points, and a ruler can take away fro the character and energy of a sketch. So in the video, I show you a more intuitive method that you can do easily by eye.  

If you like to have a go at this one, you can download the reference photo below (right-click on the image and choose "save as" or "Download image".

 

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