Illustrator: Perspective Drawing

Add a sense of depth and space with powerful perspective tools in Illustrator. Learn how to draw in perspective and add, position, and scale objects so they blend with your scene.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. About Perspective

• Type of perspectives
• Activating the Perspective Grid in Illustrator
• The parts of the Perspective Grid

2. Adjusting the Perspective Grid

• Adjusting vanishing points
• Adjusting grid planes
• Adjusting the horizon, grid cells, and extent
• Moving the Perspective Grid

3. Working with the Perspective Grid

• The Plane Switching widget
• The Perspective Selection tool

4. Drawing in Perspective

• Drawing and selecting objects
• Attaching objects
• Releasing objects
• Creating and editing text

5. Editing in Perspective

• Moving objects along a plane
• Precise movement
• Automatic plane positioning
• Scaling objects
• Using symbols in perspective
• Adjusting the Perspective Grid and the vanishing point
• Adding finishing touches to the perspective drawing

Conclusion

• Next steps