Perspective Guide

Perspective Guides offer adjustable vanishing points. Use these to construct realistic objects and backgrounds in your artwork.

Customize

Set up and adjust your Perspective Guide.

To set up a Perspective Guide, expand your top toolbar with the ellipsis. From here, tap Actions → Canvas and tap Perspective. Now tap Edit Drawing Guide.

Your Perspective Guide appears as thin lines that overlay your artwork. By default it will appear with a condensed toolbar at the bottom. Swipe upwards on the grey handle in the centre to expand it, and swipe down on it to contract it:

Drag the grey handle upwards to access more settings for your Drawing Guide.

To return to the canvas without making a change, tap Cancel. To commit your changes, tap the blue tick.

Vanishing Points

Perspective Guide works by adding 'vanishing points' within or outside your canvas area. As you add a point with a finger tap, lines will appear and converge on that point.

You can add up to three vanishing points, and positioning, rotating, and combining these are how Perspective Guide works.

Add Vanishing Points

Tap anywhere on the screen to create a vanishing point. You can create up to three vanishing points. This gives you the option of one-point, two-point, or three-point perspective.

Drag the individual nodes to adjust your Perspective Guide.

One-Point Perspective

One-point perspective, also called parallel perspective, is the simplest form of perspective. All surfaces in the image that face the viewer appear as their true shape, without any distortion. Vertical and horizontal lines are parallel with the edges of the canvas and the horizon line of the artwork.

Only the surfaces that travel towards / away from the viewer distort. These lines all converge towards a single vanishing point. This is the ‘one point’ in ‘one-point perspective’.

Two-Point Perspective

In two-point or angular perspective, only vertical lines are parallel. All horizontal lines converge towards either of two points on a horizon line. Two-point offers a more realistic perspective than one-point. But, it doesn’t give the same amount of depth as three-point perspective.

Three-Point Perspective

The most complex but realistic form of perspective. All lines recede towards one of three vanishing points. This mimics the way we see the real world: objects recede away from us on every axis. This gives structures in your artwork believable depth, width, and height.

Position and Rotation

Drag just outside the outer circle that appears when you create a vanishing point to adjust the horizon line and the exact position and angle of your grid lines for that particular point.

Remove or Alter Vanishing Points

Tap on a vanishing point, then tap Delete to remove it, or Select to change the color of the individual vanishing point’s guides

Drawing Guide Settings

When you have expanded the settings by swiping the grey handle upwards, you'll have access to the following options.

For Perspective Guide specifically, note that these options are set independently for each vanishing point → tap on a vanishing point and then 'select' to set it to be the one you're editing.

Adjust the color of the guide lines using the hue bar at the top of the Drawing Guides screen.

Adjust the transparency of the guide lines from invisible to opaque.

Adjust the thickness of the guide lines from invisible to noticeable.

Turn this on to have any new paint, erase, and smudge strokes you make on the layer follow along with the lines of this Perspective Guide.

To return to the canvas without making a change, tap Cancel. To commit your changes, tap the blue tick.