Homework 6 – Perspective Article & Youtube Videos

Interesting Points: 

  • Different perspectives can help make objects appear more realistic- more points does not necessarily make the drawing look more realistic.
  • A potentially common misconception and something I was unaware of is that you can have multiple vanishing points in a one-point perspective drawing if different objects vanish at different points.
  • Three-point perspective can be useful for depicting tall buildings, such as a skyscraper, from ground level.
  • You can create an aerial perspective using three vanishing points in a three-point perspective drawing.
  • A common mistake which I was unaware of is that a cube in an angular perspective cannot have an angle of less than 90 degrees between it’s visible faces.
  • A measuring line, drawn at the front of the plane and divided into equal parts, can be useful for understanding and drawing parts of an object in an equal and realistic way.
  • Furniture in a perspective drawing can be drawn by using boxes or other simple forms which can be drawn in perspective easily and then including the furniture within those parameters.

Sketchbook Prompt #12 – Week 5

12. Invent a drawing that suggests great depth in space.Look at the work of Georgio de Chirico: Estorick Collection and The Metropolitan Museum : and Henry Moore, Tube Shelter Perspective, 1941 

Inspiration:

Tube Shelter Perspective, Henry Moore 1941

Sketch:

Telescope view