The Etherington Brothers’ free perspective tutorials · roughly 2–4 weeks
not started yet
This is the plan for this module as it stands. It gets revisited once it’s reached — kept if it
still fits, changed or swapped out if something better turns up along the way.
Learn enough 1- and 2-point perspective to place a character in a room and draw a believable
box, building, or prop. That’s the whole goal here.
The Etherington Brothers — already your character-design resource later in this course —
have their own free, cartoon-native perspective tutorials: 1-point perspective
(part two), 2-point perspective, and
perspective boxes. Visual, practical, and built for exactly this
style — no textbook or lecture series required.
free alternativesModernDayJames covers the same ground for free on YouTube in a looser way, and Ernest
Norling’s classic Perspective Made Easy (free and legal, Internet Archive) is a
good plain-English companion if you’d rather read than watch.
optional deep dive
If perspective genuinely clicks for you and you want to go further, Marshall Vandruff’s
1994 Perspective Drawing Series ($12, 12 lectures) is some of the clearest, most in-depth
perspective teaching ever recorded — but it’s well past what a cartoonist strictly needs,
so treat it as optional, not required.
Steps
Etherington Brothers: 1-Point Perspective, Part 1Lesson
Etherington Brothers: 1-Point Perspective, Part 2Lesson
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