
Creating a scene will force you to decide on your perspective while framing and developing the scene as a whole.ĭrawing without a consistent perspective will make your drawing look less realistic and therefore less three-dimensional. One way to represent dimensionality is to situate your character in space. This might sound obvious, but it's important to remember when you start to consider which drawings look realistic and which don't. Three-dimensional objects take place in space. It will also indicate spaces that require natural shading. For example, use cylinders to represent the limbs of your character, as opposed to two lines.ĭrawing everything as volumes may make your first sketch messier, but it will ultimately help you envision the scene with all three dimensions. Add depth to your rectangles and turn any of your wireframe geometry into polygons. This means that where you might want to draw a circle, you should draw it as a sphere. Now, instead of simple shapes, it's important to envision and draw these in as simple volumes. Learning to draw is frequently taught as a process of breaking complex objects down into simple shapes. The easiest way to incorporate three-dimensionality into your drawing is to draw all your initial shapes as 3D volumes.

To make things easier on yourself, begin working with all three dimensions from the very beginning stages of your drawing. Perspective and shading, in this case, do double duty, as they help to represent a feeling while giving a sense of believability. Instead, it should approximate an aesthetic level of realism. Since manga is a stylized art, your shading will not need to be totally realistic. Shading refers to how light source in the scene interact with the surface of the objects.Perspective is how someone perceives objects as distorted by a focal point.Learning how to draw in a style that looks 3D requires a basic understanding of perspective and shading. So how do you apply this to your own drawings? Any time we watch a movie or look at a photograph, we are always looking at a three-dimensional representation in two-dimensional space. If you think about it we are frequently viewing images this way. When we talk about drawing something in a way that looks 3D, we are really talking about using shading and perspective to trick the eye into believing that the drawing has more dimensions than it does.
