XARA on the Grid

**Mike Bailey** · 28 July 2015, 03:01 PM

I'm still looking for some help with perspective grids to use with Xara. Tips, tricks, anything.

All you need to understand to draw to perspective is, 1: where is the horizon from your point of view. 2: the horizon is where everything in view vanishes. Thus you have a horizon and a vanishing point. I made this drawing a long time ago for someone on TG to illustrate the (vanishing) point.
If you don't understand feel free to ask.

**gray** · 28 July 2015, 04:06 PM

Paul, there's neat little aid called Carapace. It's made by Epic and it's free and very helpful. Just Google Carapace Perspective and follow the link to the Epic page. You can use it to put perspective grid lines on your drawings.

**Psaumure** · 29 July 2015, 12:51 AM

Thank you Mike and Gray for your segestions. I used both of them and came up with a new concept for a background. I think it turned out well. I think you will like it. I used a single perspective to put it together. I though I was starting with somthing simple that ended up more complicated than I thought. Thanks again for the segestions.

Paul

**Ron Duke** · 29 July 2015, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Mike Bailey

All you need to understand to draw to perspective is, 1: where is the horizon from your point of view. 2: the horizon is where everything in view vanishes. Thus you have a horizon and a vanishing point. I made this drawing a long time ago for someone on TG to illustrate the (vanishing) point.
If you don't understand feel free to ask.

I'm going to try using this as well as the other techniques/tools I've been given by others.
Thanks for posting it Mike.

**Mike Bailey** · 29 July 2015, 05:58 PM

I glad you are getting some use of the technique. When I'm doing a 2 point perspective the vanishing points often go beyond the limits of the page. I zoom out as far as necessary and draw my guide lines on the guide layer then zoom in to work.