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Perspective · 6 of 8 · 6 min

Eyes stay on the horizon

A standing person your height has their eyes on your eye level, near or far. Only the drawn size changes.

  1. 1

    Drop them on the floor

    Feet on the ground plane. Eyes locked to the horizon. The head crosses slightly above the line — that small cap is the skull above the eyes.

  2. 2

    Walk them back

    They shrink. The eyes do not drift up the wall. If a distant figure is huge, or a near figure has eyes at the waist, the room will feel wrong even when the walls are correct.

  3. 3

    The usual mistake

    Drawing people at one size and sliding them around the page. Turn the mistake on and watch the eyes leave the horizon.

Critique

Circles never come to a pointWhere the lines already agree

Drill

Eyes stay on the horizon. Walk them back and only the body shrinks. The skull still clears the line.