Perspective Systems
3.27.20
Assignment 1: Create an environment in two-point perspective with 10 boxes (of different sizes) within
Because newsprint paper is so big, I struggled with drawing straight lines. I realized that inaccurate lines soon lead to inaccurate perspectives. So on some of the lines that are trickier, I used the help of a ruler.
Assignment 2: Draw your room in two-point perspective, trying to keep the accuracy of the size of the objects in relation to each other using units of measurement. Include human figures.
I started exploring what POV I wanted to draw my room, whether I want it to be outside or inside the room, bird’s eye view, standing, or sitting.
I also started looking at room designs I found online, studying what POV they were using.
Top left: roughly one-point perspective, POV sitting or lying on the ground Top Middle: one-point perspective, POV standing; Top Right: two point perspective, POV sitting in a chair
Bottom left: weird combo of one and two-point perspective, POV standing Bottom right: two-point perspective, POV bird’s eye view outside the room
This was surprisingly hard. Because the POV for this drawing is outside the room with bird’s eye view, the drawing ended up really small. I realized that I really do not like drawing small—somehow it’s harder for me to draw accurate shapes.
3.31.30
Matt’s Examples:
My drawings:
My room in plan view looks really empty because I didn’t add in the little stuff: lamp, boxes, laundry basket etc. Also, my bed is in another room. I made up the bed I had in my previous perspective drawing.
Two-point-perspective of my room in another POV:
Learning from last time, I drew really big (Newsprint 18x24"). Drawing big allows me a greater variety of line weights. I also changed my tools from regular pencil and pen to just a black prismacolor pencil.
Also, I actually tried to stay true to the proportions of my real room this time instead of eyeballing it. I used 2x2' cubes as units of measurement. I also used the human figure to figure out the proportions of the chair.
My perspective is this drawing is pretty extreme, as the vanishing points are too close together. A fix for this is extending my vanishing points off the page, either through using tape, or eyeballing it, as we should be able to establish a believable perspective without needing vanishing points.
4.5.20
One-Point Perspective
We learned in class how plan-views and wall elevations conveniently translates into one-point perspective.
Top-down view:
Side View:
I noticed that the two drawings have some pretty extreme perspectives, making my room look respectively taller or longer than it is. I think this may be due to the fact that when I started out by eyeballing the square I will base the rest of my measurements off of, I made the square too long (highlighted in blue below).
Maybe if I made the square shorter, then the perspective will be less extreme. But then, it would be harder to distinguish the squares in the back as the room recedes into perspective.
