♦♦ [ART] Are Perspective Errors Breaking the Illusion? Let's Fix It.

Perspective can help you see better, organize your vision, represent what you see, enhance what goes on the canvas, and portray exquisite imaginary worlds. Yep, it can do all that. Read on for proof.

I’ve spent hours pondering how perspective makes scenes feel believable and immersive. This framework reveals my thought process and technical breakdown. My goal is to eliminate obvious visual errors so my viewers buy into my world—nothing more, nothing less. Do they buy it?

SOREI: The Art of Visual Believability

I’ve distilled how perspective helps artists. It’s scaffolded from simple to complex.

• See

• Organize

• Represent

• Enhance

• Imagine

Rowboat On the Waterfront. I just thought it looked nice. ©2023 CMH

The Origin: Solving Real Artistic Challenges

Every great teaching method is born from watching students struggle. Mine emerged from countless moments of frustration—students drowning in technical complexity, their artistic vision buried under rules and lines.

I watched artists create drawings that just felt "off"—scenes where something fundamental was broken, but they couldn't articulate why. The problems were always the same:

• Lines that didn't respect the horizon

• Parallel objects hitting different vanishing points

• Vertical elements that defied spatial logic

• Complexity overwhelming simplicity