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Introduction to Perspective

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Week 4:

Continue adding furniture into your one-point perspective interior. Experiment with making objects lean, equally spacing objects, and how to manipulate the X-method to create new shapes (like the diamonds we made on the floor).

Week 3:

Finish your one-point perspective drawing of a street. Keep in mind your eye level and the vanishing point.

Remember, in one-point perspective, there is always an undistorted side (made with only vertical and horizontal lines), and it's the side that is perpendicular to your direction of gaze. Surfaces that are parallel to your direction of gaze are distorted, and will be constructed with radiating lines (connected to the vanishing point).

Week 2:

Practice finding your eye level in real life, through the methods we covered in class.

Four ways to find your eye level (in photos and/or real life):

  • Raise a glass of water until the surface of the water appears to be a straight, horizontal line
  • Find where 90 degree corners or curved edges appear as a straight horizontal line
    • In a photo, use a horizontal ruler to find that horizontal, straight line
  • Extend distorted edges until they converge at the same point(s)
  • The horizon of the ocean
Week 1:

Finish your perspective sketches without a ruler on your own. Create buildings, sidewalks, and other familiar objects in accurate one and two point perspective.

Challenge:

Try to make some shapes look hollow.

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