Perspective

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Notes

One-Point Perspective

Exercise 1.

Play with eye-level/horizon within the frame and move cubes and boxes around
Freehand sketch a cube that is: below you, above you, bigger than you

Exercise 2:

Play with "fences"
How can they be used?

Exercise 3.

Show off with grids/chess board
Sketches from the session:

Exercise 4.

Draw ellipses/cylinders in at different positions with the picture plane
Use shadow and light

Two-Point Perspective

Exercise 5.

Play with eye-level/horizon within the frame and move cubes and boxes around
Freehand sketch a cube that is: below you, above you, bigger than you

My first attempt at shading the boxes didn't turn out so well and I had
to recreate it again entirely as some inks bled through the paper, with
this one I looked more carefully at where the darkest areas would be
and where the light source would come from (the top)

Here I have followed this YouTube tutorial and did my best to follow along and try to get a better understanding of what happened in the session. This helped a lot and I had fun trying to go over the circles to see if it would became neat after some attempts. I also learned that to neaten my shading I can just place a ruler to one edge to get more neat strokes as I show the depth. The cylinders where the hardest but after a while I figured out how It's easily done from being flat to 3D.

Exercise 6

Understand then show-off using one and two point perspective.
Use a wide range of materials including paint/colour.
Experiment with strength/width of line.
Dispense with construction lines once you understand the theory and freehand sketch.

Three-Point Perspective

Understanding what you see

Exercise 1

Take a cup/can/bottle and small rectangular object and make a simple arrangement
Draw what you understand and see using the techniques shown
Move around the arrangement and change your eye-level each
Use tone to indicate light direction and shadow

I was originally going to use a mug but I then chose a bottle which ended up even harder to work with as it was clear...

Exercise 2

Working in pairs take turns to pose for one another
Use the measurement and 'seeing' techniques you've been shown, produce highly simplified (but accurate) full figure drawings of solid figures
Produce head and shoulder drawings using the same knowledge and skills
Move you viewpoint and pose each time
Use light direction, shadow and tone

During the beginning I wasn't really confident with how to measure especially with a full figure, slowly after trying a few more times I got the hang of it and did some non measuring and just some basic anatomy as well to figure out how poses would look without all the details in pictures. The head and shoulder ones where also a bit tricky as I kept thinking to draw squares at first but after watching some videos I started to make the basic shape of the head and figure out where the features would be places, I am still a bit confused on how I could have made my hair black without it just contrasting into the background.

-WORK OVER THE BREAK-

Human Perspective

I have managed to figure how the head shape works out with a different method but I am still not very confident when it comes to drawing the full human figure. I focused on trying to get a lot done and using lines to guide myself primarily using box shapes to see where the bigger side is and where it goes further.

Building Perspective

I didn't manage to work more towards buildings compared to human figures as I was content with what I already made as I think I am getting a better understanding towards buildings. The solo building was a challenge but trying to add more buildings into one image was a bit more challenging - I didn't go into much detail with the second design but rather make it obvious that something was supposed to be there and I got a bit scared to do the other buildings. I need to work more on trying not to get distracted by detail and quantity.