TASK
- Using Sharpies on white paper, make a nontraditional one or two point perspective drawing.
- Crop the desired image so that rather than capturing an entire landscape we just see the most interesting part of it.
- The first half of this project will focus on making a very interesting perspective drawing. The second half of the project will focus on precise measuring and marking.
- Famous works of art "draw us into themselves." Since the early Renaissance, this has been done in the West by the use of perspective.
- This project is as much about line quality as it perspective. One point perspective drawings are often associated with landscapes, but this type of drawing can be used for anything to give it a sense of depth. The drawing can be of something as big as a city or as small as a box of matches.
- To make the work of art especially creative and unique, manipulate scale and proportion. For example,when we draw a bunch of shoe boxes together in a scene those shoe boxes can also become large office buildings. Giant planets, when taken out of context, can be understood as marbles on the ground.
- Sharpies and white paper
- Other materials with approval from the teacher
- Line
- Shapes
- Scale and proportion
- Visual Depth
- Do a quick study on a small piece of paper to remind yourself just how to do one-point perspective.
- Search through books and online to get inspiration for design patterns, and structures.
- Make minimal, light lines in pencil. Too dark and they will not be able to be erased. Too many and essential lines become confused with secondary lines.
- In a one point perspective drawing, each line can have at least three lines associated with it (and many have more). Take a window frame for example. A window is not just a rectangle, but a series of numerous smaller rectangles of varying proportions.