Perspective Drawing Tips for NID NIFT 2022

Perspective Drawing is the most important topic from where you will be asked questions. Be it NID, NIFT, NATA, or for any design entrance exam, Perspective Drawing questions will be asked. So in this part, you will be assessed on your understanding of the questions, your knowledge, your presentation skills, and your presence of mind through perspective drawing.

Now here, you have to understand that there is one question and approximately more than 50,000 aspirants like you attempting the same question, so, imagine how your presentation will be able to win the examiner's attention. It will only be possible when your answer sheet stands out of the rest and completely impresses and appeals to the examiner, and compels the examiner to give more marks.

Therefore, here we bring to you Ten Amazing tips to enhance your perspective drawing and make it stand out from the rest.

10 Amazing and useful Tips for Perspective Drawing:

Tip 1: Using a Thumbnail

During the examination due to time constraints to hasten the process, most of us tend to jump on to the question immediately after reading the question and start with the drawing. Even though you have a great idea and are very sure about the drawing which you are going to make, still while you are at it, while drawing or concentrating on a particular part of the drawing, you might forget or miss out on something which you have thought of earlier. Therefore, draw a thumbnail in the space given for rough work, and mark and label every part of your drawing, and plan how you are going to use the answer sheet space, as a simple change in the starting of the drawing can make the whole representation come out totally different. So, a simple example will help you understand easier, like, we place our horizon line at different levels on three different sheets of paper. Now, the higher the horizon line, we will have less space to show the sky and buildings around, if we put the horizon line at the middle, it will be a balance showing both the ground as well as the buildings around, while if we bring down the horizon line even lower, then we will have ample space to show the building and trees at their full length. Therefore, you must, depending on the question have to plan this and where you are going to place all the components and elements of the drawing. And, making a small thumbnail will act as a simple blueprint for your drawing and will also help you to refer back when required while drawing.

Tip 2: Draw with a very light hand

Once you start drawing, always start off with a light hand until you have placed all the components and elements which you want to incorporate in your drawing. Once you are complete then you can put in the normal pressure and complete the drawing with the relevant perspective drawing elements and factors in place. This is very important as if you have made any mistake or want to erase or make some edit in a particular place, it will be very difficult to get rid of the dark pencil marks, which will eventually make your answer sheet look untidy, which is the last thing you would want to happen. Therefore, while you are practicing during your preparation also make it a habit to draw with a very light hand and then quickly re-darken these lines later when you will be doing the detailing part.

Tip 3: Practice Freehand Straight Line drawing

Though this should have come in number 1 position, anyways, another crucial aspect is drawing freehand straight lines. Without using a scale, you must practice drawing freehand straight lines, this will help you draw clear, neat, and quicker drawings during the examination. Especially in the perspective drawing, you might have to draw numerous straight lines, which will be very tedious and time-consuming to use a scale each time to draw a line also it will make the sheet look dirtier as the scale tends to smudge your pencil marks. Therefore, if it calls for, then prior to your drawing preparation, start practicing drawing freehand straight lines.

Tip 4: Experiment with Textures

This aspect or element makes a vast difference, between an amazing drawing and a very ordinary drawing. Therefore, using varied textures for various fields’ helps a lot to enhance a drawing and makes it stand out from the rest. So, try using different textures for walls, doors, windows, windows with glass panes, etc will make your perspective drawing prominent and appealing at the same time.

So, how to create varied textures?

You can experiment with textures by starting with the lines, like using simple horizontal lines for one building and vertical lines for another building, or using the combination of both if it looks appealing and distinct, and solves the purpose of the whole perspective drawing process. Experiment with the brick textures for a building (Like bigger or smaller textures) and stone or marble textures for another building. Graffiti can also make it look more appealing, so if you want to distinguish a building to make it look like a commercial establishment, using relevant graffiti along with drawings representing a glow sign really helps to enhance the whole drawing. You can experiment making windows with patterns like arcade windows, windows with shades where you can make more textures, etc.

Tip 5: Avoid stereotypes

Avoid making typical perspective drawings like converging buildings and the respective and consecutive buildings coming out of the converging point with a main street in the middle. Here, you can add some cross-over hanging banners over the road, or if you think this might block the background view depending on the horizon line, in that case, you may draw a traffic light pole going across till the middle with street name and directions. This simple technique will surely enhance your drawing leaving a place for more innovation and skill representation.

Tip 6: Detailed Elements

As we have earlier mentioned, adding newer and latest elements or objects in your drawing gives it uniqueness, and any latest addition is surely going to put forth your observation skills. It also helps to provide you space for more detailing and representing your skill. For example, hanging and extended out display boards, glow signs, symbols, brand images, standees outside the building, are the objects which will make your drawing look more realistic and adding more details easier for you, and make the drawing look appealing.

Tip 7: Drawing people

So, if your perspective drawing is of a road scene or a marketplace, or a shopping street scene, you will need to add people to your drawing.

Now, how to draw these people in these perspective drawing

Remember, in these perspective drawings where people are distantly visible, you are not required to draw the details of the facial elements like eyes, nose, and overall elements like costumes, etc. You just have to draw a basic structure, just make the gestures, like if two people are standing next then make some hand gestures to make it look as if they are conversing with each other, now if you want to make people look like they are walking, make their legs at angles and a bit far apart.

Tip 8: Proportion and Scale

The most important thing for perspective drawing is the scale and proportion ratio. As the name itself is suggestive, the perspective drawing is likely to represent 3D objects on a 2D surface, and therefore, here you have to give the correct impression of the object’s height, width, depth, and position keeping all of these elements in relevance to each other. Therefore, throughout the drawing, you have to keep a keen eye on the scale and proportion and the relativity of the size and scale of the people to the buildings, cars, and the other objects in the drawing so that the whole picture looks absolutely in proportion. A reference for you that might work is like if you are drawing skyscrapers then the people might be of 1/7th or 1/8th of the building. These all will also depend on the closeness of the objects that will decide the relativity of the drawing. This is simple that closer the objects and people, they have to be made bigger, and the farthest they are in the drawing, you must make them relatively smaller keeping the proportion and scale.

Tip 9: Shadows are important

This could be considered to be the last element which you need to add to your perspective drawing, and hence this makes it the most crucial one.

Therefore, always add shadows in your drawing, shadows of the people, buildings, etc. So, keep in mind the time of the hour of the day specified in the question, and then after determining the sun’s position, you have to draw the shadows, which will be longer or shorter depending on the time. This is important as in these kinds of exams, your drawing’s evaluation will very much depend on your understanding of the question and how you relatively express it in your drawing.

Tip 10: Edit while you are at it!

Remember, no one can perfect at a single go, that too during the exam where you are completely under stress. So, making mistakes are inevitable, therefore, rectifying those mistakes is equally important. Even when you are drawing a simple line and it seems is going unplanned that too when you are drawing in a pen which you cannot erase, do not worry, just try to cover it up. For example, while you are making a texture and the lines don’t seem straight or aligned, just broaden the lines and darken them. And if the borderlines distinguishing objects or the edges seem uneven then you can always broaden and darken them so as to give and even finish.

To end the article, consider this as a disclaimer also; it is always better to have someone professional and experienced to guide you through these practical aspects of the examination, where your skills will be tested. Therefore, the Best NIFT NID 2022 Preparation Coaching Institute is always there for you to get the best advice, training, tips, and techniques to crack the NIFT 2022 Entrance Exam.

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