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COM Art 130 Spring 2016, Obata

Perspective: Where do we use it? Khan Academy Example:https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/early-renaissance1/beginners-renaissance-florence/a/linear-perspective-interactive

Pinterest examples:https://www.pinterest.com/barbaraobata/drawing-perspective/, https://www.pinterest.com/Bonilla1970/perspective-for-artists/

Ernest Norling: http://www.storytellerartist.com/documents/Perspective_Made_Easy.pdf

Perspective in drawing is the same as perspective in life: it supports the integrity of your work.

Drawing Prompt

You are a magician who is frustrated because your assistant keeps giving away the secrets. In the next trick the magician pulls something surprising out of the hat.

Draw the hat.

(Prompt courtesy of group 1)

In this view we’re looking down on a different hat. The sides of the box are already drawn in perspective. Use the box to find the vanishing points and the horizon line.

Draw out the “parallel lines to where they converge. These are the vanishing points (marked with blue dots.). The horizon is the line that passes through the blue dots.

Another Hat2 Point Perspective

1 Point Perspective

In this view we’re looking straight on at the hat.

All we see is the front plane -- no sides, top or bottom are visible. The hat might be on

a person’s head and we’re at eye level with the hat.

Drawing Prompt Part 2

You’ve drawn the hat, now add on to the drawing, thinking about perspective The hat may or may not be the focus of the drawing this time . You might have 1 or 2 vanishing

points. Observe how a hat above the horizon line shows its inside. A hat below the horizon shows more of the top.

(Note: a tilted hat’s vanishing points are located differently).

Perspective: Again, When is it useful?

You might be asking yourself once again, how and when do I use this?

Generally, you’ll already have a subject in mind, and you’ll want to figure out perspective.

You’ll use perspective to draw other objects relative to the first.ARTISUN: 2- Point Box Constructions - Student Work

Perspective: Again...

How fast do the people get smaller?

Where’s the horizon?

ARTBURGAC: Gustavo Díaz Sosa

How big are Mona Lisa’s trees, and where is the horizon? What’s happening with that road?

Prspective: Again

Perspective More?

How is the ocean’s horizon determined? From the cliff view, from the castaway’s raft?

Van Gogh, Monet

Perspective: AgainWhere is the ocean’s horizon placed? From the cliff view, from the castaway’s raft??

More PerspectiveKeep an eye on those paths, roads, and rivers. Do these look “correct”?

Perspective: More

What size is this room?

Where are the vanishing points?

About how far away from the far corner is the artist standing?

Guptill, Rendering in Pencil

Perspective?

If you build your drawing from close vanishing points interesting distortions can happen.

Perspective?

Seems like this might happen anywhere in the world…

Consider that usually one of the VPs will be off the page.http://www.pxleyes.com/video-tutorial/traditional-drawing/7390/How-To-Draw-Two-Point-Perspective.html

Perspective: Aha

Use the roof lines and the window ledges to determine the vanishing points.

Find the horizon line?

Rendering in Pen and Ink, Guptill

Perspective: More>

Single or 2- point perspective?

Use the roof lines and the window ledges to determine the vanishing point(s).

Find the horizon line?

Sketch, Hugh Ferriss

And what About Schrodinger’s cat?a cat imagined as being enclosed in a box with a radioactive source and a poison that will be released when the source (unpredictably) emits radiation, the cat being considered (according to quantum mechanics) to be simultaneously both dead and alive until the box is opened and the cat observed.

Walking Perspective In this view we’re looking straight on at another hat, which is at eye level.

The vanishing point is a little to the left of the head.

We can draw another box around the hat and the person wearing the hat. This determines where the front foot meets the ground.

The feet are below eye level.

Drawing Prompt: Eye Level Draw a person wearing a hat, assuming you’re at eye level . The person is 7+ heads high. Use single-point perspective

If they’re walking find the different positions of the feet.

Assuming the same vanishing point, draw another person further back than this person.

What else is in the picture? Location?

Sometimes you want to show evenly spaced items...Fence posts. Bricks. Windows.

The trick is in the diagonal.Examples on following slides from Ernest Norling

Sometimes you want to show unevenly spaced items...doors and windows, and then, a checkerboard

More Equal Spacing

If you’re not sure how many...

Sometimes you want to show evenly spaced poles over a hill?

Or a rolling road?

The HomeworkPerspective! Using wash!

Sketch out 2 pieces of (smaller) paper with vanishing points in class on Thursday. You’ll use these for the homework, to draw one simple perspective drawing on each.

As you did in the portrait assignment, you’ll keep in mind integrating across the whole page.

Subject matter to be discussed in class Thursday