Chapter 10Mastering Slopes

Understanding how slopes are drawn will help you illustrate everything from the flaps of an open box to complicated architectural details. We’ll start by going over the two different ways to draw a slope, continue with inclined roads drawn in both one- and two-point perspective, and end by going over how to make slopes intersect other forms.

Slopes are planes that are at an angle to the ground plane. Sometimes called inclined planes, they can be found everywhere. Examples include rooftops, stairs, roads, ramps, and playground slides. Even the flaps of an open box are slopes. There are two approaches to drawing them – the first is form based while the other relies on the introduction of two new elements into the setup. ...

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