CREATIVE INDUSTRIES I COLM 2021
WEEK 2
fundamentals
perspectives
art recs
planning
review
perspectives
PERSPECTIVE DRAWING Let's Define It! Perspective drawing is one of the fundamental components of drawing. Understanding this is essential, since it’s the element that gives a picture a sense of three-dimensionality and depth.
PERSPECTIVE DRAWING What it is
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What it isn't
PERSPECTIVE DRAWING
Take a moment to look outside or just picture it in your mind. Notice that even though the tree closest to you may, in reality, be the same size as a tree farther away from you, they appear to be different sizes to you since you are standing at the specific point you are in.
TERMS POINTS LINES PERSPECTIVES
HORIZON LINE The line that separates sky from land (in landscapes) or sky from water (in seascapes). It is also referred to as the "eye-level" of the viewer.
VANISHING POINT This is placed somewhere on the Horizon Line and it represents the farthest point in your picture, where the Orthogonal Lines all meet.
ORTHOGONAL LINES These are diagonal lines that recede back into the vanishing point. These also called 'convergence lines or vanishing lines'.
TRANSVERSAL LINES These are completely horizontal or vertical lines that are either parallel or perpendicular to the horizon line.
VANTAGE POINT The specific place from which a scene is viewed. This point can actually be very high (referred to as bird's-eye) or very low (referred to as worm's-eye).
FOREGROUND, MIDDLE GROUND, & BACKGROUND
The layer closest to the viewer is referred to as the Foreground, behind it is the Middleground and the layer farthest from the viewer (usually it is simply the sky) is the Background.
TYPES OF PERSPECTIVE ONE-POINT PERSPECTIVE TWO-POINT PERSPECTIVE THREE-POINT PERSPECTIVE
ONE-POINT PERSPECTIVE Only has one vanishing point. It's good to use when you are looking at the center of an object or a scene that is facing directly towards the viewer.
1. Horizon Line 2. Vanishing Point 3. Orthogonal Lines 4. Transversal Lines
Let’s analyze this drawing of a bedroom: if you were to add perspective lines to the objects in the picture you would see that they all eventually converge on one single point (the vanishing point). From that, we can deduce that the room is done in one-point perspective.
Film
Wes Anderson peers down from above, while Quentin Tarantino likes to peer up from below. Darren Aronofsky uses sharp sounds and Stanley Kubrick prefers the one-point perspective.
TWO-POINT PERSPECTIVE This uses two vanishing points which are on the horizon line. This is commonly used for drawing most objects or scenes. In architectural renderings, it’s advised to always use the two point perspective, that’s because all the vertical lines are perpendicular to the horizon.
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THREE-POINT PERSPECTIVE This uses three vanishing points and is often used when drawing large objects such as buildings. The third vanishing point can be above an object. An example would be looking at a building from below. The top of the building will appear far smaller than the bottom.
NOTE In many cases the vanishing points and even the horizon line can be off of the actual drawing area. If you try to add the lines to the larger object you will see that the vanishing points will not fit within the frame of the drawing. Here’s a labeled example of it:
NOTE For shapes that do not exactly line up with the lines due to their curves, similar to the simplification done for the module on human anatomy, we’ll have to simplify the complex shape and fit it in a block to get the sense of dimension. After that, the shape that you wish to draw can be placed in the block.
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