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We present to your attention a collection of breathtaking 3D art. Asphalt art is also known as 3D graffiti and is one of the most popular types art these days. Millions of people admire the drawings on the pavement, as it looks very amazing. You can see and understand the creative approach of the artist. These pavement artworks showcase the creative experience of the artist.

We are sure that all of you have seen a lot of 3D pavement graffiti, but for this article we have selected 44 of the most amazing and beautiful 3D pavement art. All of these drawings have been carefully selected and we hope they will inspire you.

1. A cup of Costa coffee

This is not a real cup of cappuccino or coffee. In fact, this is a wonderful 3D drawing on the pavement, which was painted very realistically by the artists.

2 Mummy Escape

As you all can see this 3d drawing shows a mummy escaping from a tomb. This amazing photo is taken from a festival held in California in 2008.

3. Ford

For Ford lovers, this spectacular 3D street art photo was taken in Mexico.

4. Zhuhai - China

This outstanding and fantastic 3D graffiti photo was taken in 2009 in China.

5. HDI insurance company

Marketing 3D drawing of the HDI insurance company, which will help in solving all your financial issues.

6. Bird's eye view

A fantastic drawing on the pavement that shows the city from a bird's eye view.

7. Jinro Seoul

8. Valley

Now, it's time to showcase some nature photos. In these wonderful and attractive 3D drawings, you can see a beautiful view of the valley.

9. Car drawing

Another street 3d drawing of a car that looks very impressive. What do you think about it?

10. Asian Paints - Mumbai

Asian paints have a huge range of colors which is why they are very famous and one of the biggest paint companies in India. You can see for yourself how beautiful the 3D image on the sidewalk, made with Mumbai paints, looks.

11. Hell in London

We have all heard many stories about hell, but we have never seen it. This picture perfectly depicts hell and conveys its atmosphere.

12. Chess with the Dalai Lama

You wanted to play chess with the Dalai Lama, if so, then your wish will be granted. Check out this amazing 3D drawing on the pavement.

13. Christmas

Beautiful 3D street art depicting Christmas, but not in Bethlehem, but in the 13th century Chinese capital Khanadu.

14. Fair in Cologne

In honor of the fair in Cologne, an incredible 3D graffiti was painted on the sidewalk.

15. Impressive water pattern

Another drawing on the pavement that struck my mind.

16. Harry Potter in 3D

Harry Potter is very popular and famous hero famous book, and almost everyone knows this character. Check out this 3D street art inspired by Harry Potter.

17. Indonesia - Bandung

Photo taken in mall in 2001, which is located in Bandung Indonesia.

18. 3D drawing in Hong Kong

Street 3D drawings in Hong Kong. Amazing world Whampoa, which shows a wonderful picture of a waterfall.

19. Green Week, Brussels

The photo was taken during Green Week in Brussels. This drawing on asphalt shows the beauty of nature.

Gorgeous 3d-drawing, which depicts the abyss in a very realistic way.

21. Schiphol Airport - Amsterdam

This attractive 3D drawing was created at Siphol Airport in Amsterdam in December 2009. Look at this beautiful piece of art.

22. 3d heart

As you can see in this picture, the old man takes some of the heart from underground and throws it on the ground.

23. Astronaut

The talent of the artist of this drawing is amazing. See how realistic the astronaut floats out of the sidewalk.

24. Alice down the rabbit hole

This drawing was drawn with chalk on asphalt, in August 2011 in Dun Leary, Ireland. Jennifer and Mercedes Chaparro named him "Alice down the rabbit hole"

25. Forest road

How do you like this 3D drawing on the ground? Doesn't it look amazing and interesting?

26. Las Vegas 3D Painting

Excellent and very realistic drawing on the streets of Las Vegas

27. Drawing in honor of the festival in Beijing

Beijing artists created this 3D drawing on the road in honor of the festival that takes place in Beijing.

28. Jack Daniels

Probably one of the most famous whiskeys is Jack Daniels, painted on the ground in a cafe. Is it really impressive?

29. Street lizards

Drawing of lizards and grasshoppers drawn in Lienz, Austria, at a festival in 2009. An outstanding drawing on the streets of London, take a look and appreciate this work of art.

30. 3d street art

Alice in Wonderland has come to Norway. See how realistic the rabbit looks from the hole.

32. Elevator failure

Another drawing that looks no less impressive than the previous ones.

33. Hong Kong

From the editor: In this article, the artist Alex Maksiov talk about the principles of creation 3D paintings on asphalt. From a new author Artifex great experience in this business: he created dozens of volumetric illusions around the world!

The word asphalt refers to the horizontal plane on which we walk every day. It can be concrete, a wooden base, glass and even sand - yes, yes, now there are 3D drawings in the sand! It just so happened that this type of drawing is usually called "on asphalt", and in the original, in English, it is written as 3D street painting.

So... Many of those who are now reading this article are already familiar with this type of street art from photographs found on the Internet. Maybe some of you have seen 3D drawings live, or maybe you tried to create them yourself.

Surely, most of you wondered, “But how do street artists achieve such an effect?”. I'm sure that some of you have already exclaimed: “What's the secret here!? This is an elementary projection of an image onto a plane! Exactly so, but I would also clarify that this is a projection + perspective. Although, of course, these are interacting concepts.

So where do you start working on a 3D drawing? As with all artists - from the definition of the plot and the development of a sketch, which depends on the size of the site. You ask: "How does the plot depend on the size of the site?". And I will answer you that the drawing on the pavement is a projection onto a plane that is at an angle to us and has its own perspective contraction.

If you decide to depict an object that is larger than human growth - suppose an adult bear attacking a person, then such a drawing will stretch for many meters. This is provided that the height from which a person looks at the drawing is equal to his average height. Therefore, sometimes artists can use a combination of a plane under their feet and a wall, or even two walls.

In this example, you can see how the image dimensions change during projection onto a plane by the line of sight. And the sharper this angle is, the more elongated we will get the picture.

After you have decided on the sketch, you need to transfer it to the plane. How to do it? Some of you have already exclaimed: "With the help of a projector!". Yes, but there is one small condition: the drawing must be completed within one daylight hours (for example, at a festival). Under this condition, the projector cannot be used because the projected image cannot be seen in bright light. What to do?

To begin with, we will need to build a grid in space. This method is familiar to artists and architects of the respective educational institutions, although some of you may have come across the basics in drawing lessons. The apple drawing will look like this.

You can see how it deforms on a plane, so you need to look at it from only one point. Usually, the point of view for the audience is marked with a special sign that makes it clear where exactly you need to be or shoot.

So, if you are going to photograph 3D drawings, look for such a sign!

Volumetric drawings on asphalt represent a new direction in graffiti (street painting). Masters who create a 3D effect under everyone's feet blur the line between reality and image. Despite the fantastic impression made, the drawings on the pavement obey the strict laws of perspective and are created according to all the canons of painting.

3d drawings on the pavement: close up look normal

Before creating a masterpiece of 3D painting on asphalt, it is necessary to make it on paper using the rules of perspective, that is, the image of a three-dimensional figure in space. For starters, it’s worth practicing on simple geometric shapes: a circle, a square, a triangle. For the first works, black and white drawings are suitable.

Working with perspective and shadow: sketching

To get a three-dimensional drawing, you need to choose the position of the viewer, from which the picture will appear three-dimensional. Looking from this point, you should draw. From all other angles, it will be a normal flat image.

Draw on a piece of paper three coordinate axes (XYZ), known from the geometry course, and place the selected simple figure on them. By projecting the picture onto the axis, turn it into geometric body: a triangle - into a cone, a circle - into a sphere, a square - into a cube. Make a clear plan for the arrangement of objects on the page.

An important secret to creating three-dimensional drawings is the use of the play of light and shadow. It is the cast shadow that makes the figure visually voluminous. Choose the side from which the light will fall on the depicted objects.

The side of the shape that is closer to the light source will be lighter than the opposite side. As you shade, move from the dark part of the shape to the light part, creating a smooth gradient transition. If you are placing a light source in front of the painting, keep in mind that three-dimensional figures are drawn darker closer to the borders: leave the middle light, evenly shading the subject to the contours.

Draw the cast shadows. The shadow of the figure always falls from the opposite side of the light source.

Break the prepared sketch on paper with a grid into small squares. This will allow you to copy the picture on the asphalt without errors.

The resulting sketch shows the shape of the objects in perspective. Gradually improve, move on to more complex shapes, and then abandon the auxiliary coordinate axes and gradually add experiments with color

Creation of 3D drawings on asphalt

To transfer a three-dimensional drawing to asphalt, you will need: - colored crayons; - spray paints; - Styrofoam or rubberized gloves for shading; - chalk made of burnt clay of various shades for drawing details in black and shading.

It is advisable to choose asphalt with fine crumbs for applying a three-dimensional pattern. The image should be created in cloudy weather, having previously cleared the place for the drawing from debris.

Gradually, along the grid of the drawing, square by square, transfer the sketch you have built to the asphalt canvas. To get started, use crayons and foam to blend. With the acquisition of skills, you will be able to use spray paints.

In the process of working on a three-dimensional drawing, move from top to bottom, first doing the upper part of the figures

Of course, any of you at least once in your life saw graffiti on the walls, in reality or in a photo - it doesn’t matter. However, there is such a type of drawings as 3D graffiti. The pictures are so real it's hard to believe your eyes!

With these drawings, the streets of Russian cities have turned into a real art gallery of street art.

Our Russian artists decided to surprise the citizens in earnest. These three-dimensional graffiti can hardly be distinguished from reality. Cars in the pit, huge cliffs on the road and much more in this collection.

Exhibition of works by municipal artists in Samara.

The work of an unknown Russian artist.

A group of admiring spectators are discussing the fine work of the master.

Artists from Belgorod keep up with their colleagues.

Citizens gathered to look at an incredibly realistic 3D drawing in Dzerzhinsk.

The drawing looks so realistic that the authorities of the visitor fence it off so that the audience does not accidentally spoil it.

Like a real one.

Great composition.

Unique work of Perm masters.

Painting "asphalt devouring Lada Kalina". Unknown author.

Just look at this three-dimensional drawing of frozen water and cars stuck in it.

Ryazan masters of street art.

Fascinating 3D drawing from Yaroslavl.

Does it really feel like it's all real?

Very natural.

Some concept art.

Residents of Chelyabinsk photograph the work of local artists.

In Tyumen, the craftsmen created not just a drawing, but a real art installation.

Sochi. Roads connecting the once Olympic venues. In fact, the asphalt is perfectly smooth, the illusion of volume is created by the skillful work of artists.

Samara city center If you don’t know that this is a drawing, you might think that the earth really opened up right in front of the building of the provincial duma.

The artists tried to show what their city would look like if it were subjected to aerial bombardment.

It looks like the truck really goes underground, but it's skillful work with perspective.

Large-scale work of Omsk artists. From the outside, you might think that cars do not travel on the road, but on the water.

Wrote on March 4th, 2015

In this post I will talk about the principles of creating 3d drawings on asphalt and not only on it. The word asphalt means a horizontal plane on which we walk every day, it can be concrete and a wooden base, glass and even sand, yes, yes, now there is such 3d drawing on the sand. It just so happened that we began to call it "on the pavement", apparently because in childhood we said: "Drawing with chalk on asphalt", although they were often painted more on concrete, it is possible that the word concrete does not sound. Abroad in literal translation- 3d street painting in English. 3d street painting.

Many of you who are reading this article are already familiar with this kind of street art from photographs that were found on the Internet, or maybe even one of you saw 3d drawings live, and maybe even tried to create it with his own hands, and for sure the majority wondered, but how street artists seek 3d effect?
I am sure that some of you have already exclaimed: "Chu, what's the secret here!? ... This is an elementary projection of an image onto a plane!" And they will be right. I would clarify that this is a projection + perspective, although of course the concept projections cannot be separated from perspectives are interacting concepts.

So where does work start? 3d pattern? And the work begins, like with all artists, with the definition of the plot and the development of a sketch, which depends on the size of the site on which it will be performed drawing. You ask how the plot depends on the size of the site?

To do this, you need to understand that the drawing on the pavement is a projection onto a plane that is at an angle to us and has its own perspective contraction, and if you decide to depict an object that is larger than human growth, suppose an adult bear attacking a person, which will be the person being photographed, then such drawing we will stretch for many meters, this is provided that the height at the point of inspection, from which a person looks at the drawing, is equal to the average height of a person. Therefore, sometimes artists can use a combination of a plane under their feet and a wall, or even two walls, in which three and four planes (floor, ceiling and two walls) are involved - the corner part of the room.

In this image, you can see how the image dimensions change during projection onto a plane by the line of sight. And the sharper the angle of the line of sight to the asphalt plane, the more elongated the drawing will be.
Yes, we knew all this without you, let's move on!

After you have decided on the sketch, you need to transfer it to the plane in our case, asphalt. How to do it?
Some of you have already exclaimed, yes, with the help of a projector! Yes, I will answer, it is possible with the help of a projector, but there is one small condition,drawingyou need to complete within one light day, as this can happen, suppose onfestival, at which the process of using the projector becomes impossible - the projected image is simply not visible in bright light. So how!?...

To do this, I will introduce you a little bit into the course of the subject. perspective and how to construct geometric objects in space- architect's method. Why geometric? Because first we will need to build a grid in space. This method is more familiar artists and architects relevant educational institutions, although someone came across the basics in the subject of drawing.

From the point of view 3d drawing should look exactly like your sketch.

At the same time, on asphalt, the drawing of an apple will look like this (top view). You can see how the pattern is deformed on a plane, so on 3d drawing or whatever else they call it anamorphic Drawing, not to be confused with amorphous! :) you need to look only from one point.
The diagram shows the field of view in humans is approx. 120° .

The point of view for the viewer is indicated by such a sign (which I use) or by any other sign that makes it clear to the person that you need to be and shoot exactly here and in this direction. So you need to look for such a sign for a high-quality photo.

A couple of photos to understand how the picture changes in size.
On this photo through the camera lens from the designated viewing point.

That's how drawing transforming (rear view)
The drawn sewer manhole, which looks from the point of view (where the tripod stands) as a round lying pancake, the width of which is almost twice as long, actually has the shape of an oval elongated in length, which has opposite values ​​- the length is greater than the width.

An example of using two planes for 3d drawing

What does the deformation look like? drawing and from another vantage point.

First you need to set the size of the rectangular area that will capture yourdrawing on asphalt and define perspective scale, namely length and width scale. To do this, on a piece of paper you need to outline the horizon and draw a line H , parallel to the horizon, this line is the edge of the picture plane in our drawing, which we will still reach, on asphalt, this line is the edge of a rectangular grid, which will be divided into squares 50x50 cm in size.

This size is set by the artist arbitrarily, depending on the complexity of the image, according to the principle the more details, the smaller the squares - for more exact definition the position of the lines in the drawing.
We all remember that the horizon passes at the level of a person's eyes, provided that the line of sight of a person looking at this figure is at the same height, that is, roughly speaking, if these figures are of the same height. And of course, if someone is higher or lower, our horizon line changes.

Thus, knowing the height of a person (let's take an average height of 170 cm), we can set the footage on the picture plane, i.e. on the line H.
Next, we carry out center line, which is at an angle of 90° to the edge of the picture plane, in this case to the line H.

For convenience, I break the meter segments into floors and connect them with a point P on the horizon , thus obtainingvanishing point Pand the scale of the length of the segments, which we have equal to 50 cm.

Now the main thing we need to define width scale or can you say more depth scale piece 50cm long. Simply put, we need to determine how visually we will shrink the grid in perspective, laid on the asphalt. I recommend that you initially stock up on a larger paper format for the drawing.

Set the distance to the main viewing point (from which the public will take pictures3d drawing) i.e. to the edge of your drawing (or rather, to the edge of your future grid on asphalt) I set 2 meters, the artist arbitrarily sets the distance that he needs, but I don’t think that it makes sense to make it less than 1.5 meters.
On the center line of our drawing, from the edge of the picture plane, what is the line H , set aside a distance of 2 meters, as a result, getting a segment C N. This very point N for the further construction of the drawing does not play a role.

Next we need to get the distance point D1 on the horizon, from which the beam will cross the picture plane at an angle of 45 °, at the point c, this will help us determine the vertex of the square. To do this, we set the distance twice the height of the human figure, since the figure is the object from which we are measuring. Why 2 times from the picture plane? The reason is in the device of the human eye, the capture angle in width is greater than in height. For more or less normal, not distorted perception, we need to be at a distance from the object twice its height)

Thus we get a point Q(we won't need it on the site). From main vanishing point P set aside (you can use a compass) a segment equal to PQ on the horizon line, thus obtaining a point D1 And D2, most often it will go beyond a sheet of paper, so the segment PQ divided by 2 to get a point D½ and by four for the dot D¼. Passing a ray through points D1,C we get a straight line that intersects the plane of the picture at an angle of 45 ° in perspective.

Received point B1 segment BPis the vertex of the square, the segmentB,B1-side 50 cm long in perspective.

As I said above, the remote point D1 goes beyond a sheet of paper, for convenience, a cut D1,P divided into four parts and get a point D¼
Using remote point D¼keep in mind that in this case the rays intersect the side of the square B1,C1 at a different angle (this in prbl. 75° ) to the picture plane. And to find the point of intersection, the segment BC is divided into four equal parts like any other segment on the line of the picture plane, a straight line is drawn from the intersection point to the vanishing point P, from D¼ V WITH- intersection point and will determine the side B1,C1 how does a ray drawn from D1 V WITH.

In such a cunning way, at the intersections of rays from a distant point with rays of contractionsAP, BP, CP, DP, EPwe get a grid measuring 2 by 2 meters in perspective reduction with a size of square sections of 50x50 cm. Voila!

The height of the figure of a person in the picture and the height of the viewer at the viewing point is 170 cm, the distance to the viewing point is 2 meters.
As you can see in the photo below, placing our apple sketch on the resulting grid, 3d drawing from the point of view on the site, it should look exactly the same as on the sketch, i.e. without distortions and deformations.

Now we need to draw a grid without distortion, this is our projection sketch, with which we will work on the site and transfer the image to the asphalt.
Our grid is built on the edge of the picture plane, which is our straight line H, the grid will be parallel to the picture plane and perpendicular to the plane of the base, i.e. "asphalt". The size of the grid squares is still the same - 50 cm, in the drawing, of course, you have it in the scale you have chosen.

Next, watch your hands... Let's number the squares for convenience. Run a beam, I called it " projection beam", from the point of view N, at the point of any intersection of our drawing with the grid that lies in our perspective, I chose the edge of the apple leaf - it is on the line of our grid in perspective (the base of the square C2). Crossing our usual grid, which is parallel to us, the projection beam beats off a point, which is the edge of our apple leaf.

In such a tricky way, we find all the intersection points on our grid. The points that fall on the center line are found by the method of proportional calculation.
To achieve a more accurate result of building parts and lines 3d drawing, the grid is given by a smaller cell step.
We connect all the points with a smooth line, as it was once in kindergarten...
3d drawing in the projection sketch is ready!
As you can see from the result, the sketch turned out to be deformed. Now it remains to transfer it to the asphalt in kind, where you have already drawn the grid, sit and wait.

By the same principle, the image is built on the walls and ceilings. This is where the fairy tale ends.
And don't forget that 3d drawing this is primarily a drawing that requires skills in drawing, color and composition, otherwise the work may not turn out spectacular.

Although 3d drawing is called a drawing, it can also be done with paint, where, logically, it would be more correct to call it 3d painting on asphalt, but it so happened that we began to call it a drawing, let me remind you that abroad it is most often called 3d street painting - 3d street painting, although sometimes you can see the term 3d drawings like we have.

Taken from Maksiov The secret to creating a 3D drawing. Part 1 and the secret to creating a 3D drawing Part 2

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