Linear perspective is an abstraction. It works great for some scenes but once you get outside of its sweet spot it rapidly falls apart. As an artist, it is ver

Linear perspective is an abstraction. It works great for some scenes but once you get outside of its sweet spot it rapidly falls apart. As an artist, it is very useful to learn so that you get a feeling for how to map the complexities of the 3d world to a 2d plane, and it can be great to lean hard on if you’re doing a lot of work that does fall in that sweet spot, but you’ll need to learn a lot of other kinds of perspective to be able to balance precise rendering, emotional factors, and your deadlines. Curvilinear perspective is generally lacking in digital perspective rulers, though you used to* be able to buy massive sheets of paper pre-ruled with curving construction lines to draw your beautifully warped scene on; atmospheric perspective is one of your main tools for creating a sense of depth when you’re not in the middle of a rigidly gridded-off city. * maybe you still can, I haven’t really looked at drafting supplies since like nineteen ninety-something