perspective drawing analysis

Continuing my perspective drawing analysis I wanted to take a look at a breakdown of both of these drawings to get a clearer idea of how different artists work perspective into their compositions. 

The first one we have is a naruto piece by Otari. What I like is that if we break it down the perspective in this shot is actually relatively obvious and simple. We are looking upwards at the battle about to take place and he puts us at this level by dropping the horizon line, or where the feet sit on the page way low down which gives us the sense that we are like an ant staring up at the battle. 

The camera angle is very dramatic and the composition feels like it almost has a swirl to the pose itself with both feet falling off the page along with the sword and the sword holder. Notice that the sword holder does not leave the page at the same angle as the sword does, and we get a strong foreshortening that hides his whole arm where he holds the sword. We can imagine the pose itself is like looking upwards at two boxes and from here we would only really see the hair of naruto. 

As far as composition goes we can see that the hard edged shapes of the pants create a negative space for the opposing figure to stand. Notice the shapes between them are different, naruto's pant leg shapes are very triangular and point out in all directions where as the other figure has a similar triangular shape design but it is expressed more subtly as a massive triangle for the whole robe and then a series of triangles for the hair that waves in the head. The two figures compliment each other in terms of design and color and even stance and which hand holds the sword. 

The swirling shapes around the picture keep our eye moving in a circular pattern and the bigges swirls both underline and point to the opposing figure. In fact several of the swirls inn the background circle around the silhouette of naruto and point to the opposing figure directly. 

the next drawing is from a Manga that I didnt catch the name of before I grabbed the image but I like the strong foreshortening going on in this piece and I like how dynamic this artist made the pose. WE can see the perspective line breakdowns to the side that show us the front leg is more like a box like shape that sits diagonally and comes out of the picture. This seems like a consistent thing I've notices about these dynamic perspective drawings is that the drawings tend to come off the page as if to suggest there is something outside of the page making it feel like it is coming towards us.

Again we have a similar perspective of looking up at the figure and we notice again that the horizon line falls to the bottom of the page. Both of these observations are clues to keep the horizon lines low if you want to convey extreme depth and perspective while also pushing some of the image outside of the page. The most normal looking perspective form is the cylinder masses of the leg which actually do not really elongate as much as I would have thought. This goes for the bag leg as well, but we see that lack of exaggeration made up for in the right hand which feels bigger than the head. Again this shows us where the hand is in space relative to the other proportions.