Perspective

Types of Perspective

Atmospheric/Optical-The effect of air and light on how an object is perceived by the viewer. The more air between the viewer and the object the more the object seems to fade, bright objects appear closer, duller objects appear farther away.

Value or Color: Generally darker values appear closer./ Chiaroscuro

Detail: Objects in the foreground have more detail, the farther away an object is the less detail is seen.

Overlapping: objects in the foreground cover part of the objects behind them

Position: Objects in the fore ground are placed lower on the picture plane.

Size: Objects appear to get smaller as the get farther away.

Eye level line/ the imaginary line representing the viewers eye in relation to what they are viewing

Vanishing point/ point at which all parallel lines appear to converge in the distance

Receding/ moving away from you

Advancing/ moving toward you

Ellipse/ slightly squashed circle

Parallel/ lines the same distance apart moving in the same direction.

Converge/ to come together

Horizon/ where sky and ground appear to meet in the distance.

Chiaroscuro/ the arrangement of light and shadow.

Highlights / are small areas of white used to show the very brightest spots.