Perspective

In today's session we did some perspective drawing sketches that involved reference to a sheet, for assistance, given out and a large box installation to practice drawing from by our tutor. I have learnt a lot about perspective in this lesson and have practice three point perspective for the first time.

This first sketch was a demonstration of my understanding of a two point perspective and tonal perspective. The square was constructed from the two vanishing points positioned on the horizon line. where the lines cross create a 3-dimensional shape in a 3D plain. The shadows were determined by the position of the lighting and where the vanishing points cross. Although I have already done two-point perspective, it was a nice refresher to become familiar with the technique again and to be reminded of its usefulness in terms of sketching realistically and accurately.

The second sketch was a brief introduction to the concept of three-point perspective drawing. This involved a horizon line and a third vanishing point at the bottom to create a upside-down triangle. What I like about this technique is the results that I get from this technique, it really makes the drawing look dramatic and huge like its a huge skyline somewhere. However this technique is quite tedious to draw because of the number of lines you have to draw to get accuracy, and its hard to go back any mistakes since all the lines are drawn lightly and any attempt to rub them out will just ruin the other lines, but overall I do like this technique and I will use it in the future.

The third sketch was applying those techniques to a real sketch of an object to get a real sense of accuracy from the drawing with more ease then just trying to estimate positions, perspectives, and measurements by yourself. It was quite interesting to use this technique on a live subject matter as I had to compensate with the vanishing points and squash the image down to fit into the page. Although inaccurate it did pull off a nice effect that is akin to towering skyscrapers which makes me think of how this technique would be useful for drawing buildings and cities. I would however like to improve on my perspective inaccuracies by maybe drawing the vanishing points out of the paper to get a richer sense of accuracy and scale so in future they don't look so gigantic.