Graphics Programs Reference
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AHUJA
Amplified Angles
Creating Details with Two-Point Perspective
Overview:
Set up a two-point perspective grid; use drawing and editing tools to create the ba-
sic drawing in perspective; add basic shapes in perspective; add more details to achieve the fi-
nal result.
Anil Ahuja, a senior product specialist working for Adobe, created this bus for
instructional materials that explain how to work with Illustrator's perspective tools.
1 Setting up a perspective grid.
Ahuja sketched the bus from a photo reference, scanned
it, and then placed it into Illustrator as a template layer. When you select the Per-
spective Grid tool, your artboard will, by default, display a two-point perspective
grid. Ahuja then adjusted the grid to fit the scanned sketch by aligning the control
points on the grid to match the sketch. Using the Perspective Grid tool, he then be-
gan by moving the ground level control point (the diamond on either extremity of the
ground level), which allowed him to move all the planes together in any direction
(this is indicated by the four-way arrow that appears next to the cursor when it is
over this control point). Then he moved the left and right planes individually by us-
ing the tool to drag the right and left grid plane controls (the small circles beneath
each visible grid). He then also adjusted the horizon (the diamond on either extremi-
ty of the horizon line) and vanishing points (circles on the horizon line where the
planes converge).
