Perspective – Clever 3D Illustrations by João Carvalho

It took me a good long while to figure out how João Carvalho made his awesome 3D drawings pop out. When I finally did, it was a eureka moment – followed by the realization that it shouldn’t have taken me as long as it did.

Credit goes to João’s mind-bending skill in creating a forced perspective on paper. João is a fifteen year-old artist from Brazil who loves to create three dimensional drawings using nothing more than imagination, creativity, and the perfect angle. He’s also known as J Desenhos on Facebook where he posts his latest work.

Surprisingly, João took up drawing only relatively recently. He never had any formal training — he simply taught himself how to draw.

If you’re still stumped by his drawings, here’s how I think João makes them. First off, he doesn’t actually bend any of the blue lines, he draws them that way, add a little bit of awesome shading and voila! – a 3D masterpiece on paper. He trusts in your mind’s familiarity with blue-lined notepads to fool you into thinking that he managed to bend the lines somehow.

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Even as my common sense insisted that no one could do that, my mind stubbornly refused to perceive his drawings as anything other than a notepad with bent blue lines. I thought that maybe this was another display of clever paper-folding art. The absence of sharp creases made me rethink that particular hypothesis.

More staring commenced as I tried to figure it out. Finally, the blue lines themselves tipped me off. They’re a tad bit too thick in some places, and too thin in others. João’s amazing talent at shading completes the picture. Sadly, as with most paper-based 3D art, the illusion shatters when it’s viewed from a different angle.

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Take a look at more of his work on his FB page.

Here’s some more awesome 3D art on Pondly:
– Awesome Realistic 3D Animal T-Shirts
– Awesome 3D Digital Paintings by Cynthia Decker