Tutorial- Depth Distortion

This one doesn't look very interesting, but it should be important. Do I use too much text?

As I say in the opening, this tutorial is about how to judge depth in linear perspective in regards to things that are spaced evenly (such as trees, light poles, sidewalk panels, windows and so on) as they recede into the distance. I've seen way too many linear perspective tutorials that don't touch it at all, and a few that still handle it merely by guessing.

One day, I came across a perfectly horrid tutorial that used only the second technique I mention here. That tutorial produced a heavily distorted image in a way that offers the artist no control whatsoever on the final look because that method depends entirely on the shape you start with; how could such a method ever be helpful to an artist. It was truly the most nonsensical linear perspective tutorial I had ever seen... and it had a Daily Deviation . That's when I decided that I'd have to do a tutorial of my own. Sure everything here will also appear in good linear perspective tutorials, but there are just so many inadequate ones out there, I felt I had to add this to help balance it out.

This tutorial assumes you already know the basics of linear perspective (1-point and 2-point perspective), and seeks to add onto--not replace--those basic lessons.

Also I intend for this to lay the foundation for an upcoming tutorial on people distortions.