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DREW
One Perspective
Simulating a One-Point Perspective View
Overview:
Create a one-point perspective grid; customize the grid by moving its control
points; draw tile artwork and move it onto the grid using the Perspective Selection tool; du-
plicate the artwork to make a row; duplicate the rows to form a floor.
Elaine Drew is an artist who is equally at home with traditional painting as with the
latest digital drawing tools. For this Anubis image, Drew relied on Illustrator's
Perspective Grid tool and presets to give the tiled floor and gradient walls the illusion
of perspective.
1 Creating the one-point perspective grid.
Drew designed the illustration to feature a
one-point perspective view. She began by selecting the Rectangle tool and drawing
the square that would form the rear wall of the room and serve as a guide for creating
the perspective grid in the next step. She filled the square with a gradient.
To start the grid, Drew chose View> Perspective Grid> Define Grid. In the “Define
Perspective Grid” dialog she chose the [1P-Normal View] preset, and then
customized it by changing Units to Inches, Gridline every to .5, and Horizon Height
to 5. Drew clicked the Save icon, named and saved the preset, then clicked OK to exit
the dialog.
