Perspective Drawing

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Perspective Drawing

• Uses line to show depth, form, and deep space
• Uses vanishing points on a horizon line in city
  and landscapes
• Vertical lines, horizontal lines, and diagonal
  lines

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What is perspective?

• Perspective is Where your eyes are looking from

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Renaissance

• Re-birth of Arts and Science
• Real looking art (like a photograph)
• Disguised brush stroke and marks
• One Point Perspective
• Vanishing point
• Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal lines
• The Last Supper (DaVinci)

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The Last Supper
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Look at the implied diagonal lines.
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Heres some more Renaissance Art.
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Two point example
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One Point Example
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One Point Perspective

• Start with a horizon line and vanishing point.
• Then draw a shape (square) above the horizon line
• Horizon line is Eye level.

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One Point Perspective

• Then draw lines with your ruler, from the corners
  of your square to the vanishing point.
• Go all the way to the V.P.

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One point perspective

• In the space between the top two diagonal lines,
  draw a Vertical line
• Vertical means straight up and down.
• This creates a corner for the next step.

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One point perspective

• From that new corner, make a horizontal line
  between the bottom two diagonal lines.
• This will create the bottom of the Form.

Above eye level.
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One point REVIEW

• Horizon line
• Vanishing point
• A single shape
• Lines from the corners.
• A vertical line
• A horizontal line
• And the you have a 3/D FORM

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One Point Review
Now copy these other three.
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Two Point Perspective

• Start with a single line
• Draw lines to both V.P.s from the top and bottom
• Two vertical lines
• A line to the V.P. from each new corner.
• And you have a 3/D Form from a different
  perspective (Turned)

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Two point Perspective

• Two vanishing points on the horizon line.
• Start your form with a single vertical line.

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Two Point Perspective

• Draw a line to each vanishing point from the top
  and bottom of that Vertical line.
• These lines are the top and bottom of the Form
  youre creating.

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Two Point Perspective

• Now draw a vertical line between the top and
  bottom diagonal lines (on the right).

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Two Point Perspective

• Draw another vertical line on the other side,
  between the lines leading to point A.
• These lines represent where your form ends.

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Two Point Perspective
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Above Eye Level

• Draw a vertical line on the left and above the
  horizon line (eye level)
• This will be the corner of your form.

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Above Eye Level

• Again, draw a line to each vanishing point from
  the top and bottom of this vertical line.
• These are the top and bottom corners of your
  form.

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Above Eye Level

• Draw two vertical lines (one on each side of the
  first vertical line).
• Between the top and bottom diagonal lines.

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Above Eye Level

• Two more diagonal lines are needed.
• Draw the first from the new corner on the right
  to the A vanishing point.

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Above Eye Level

• Draw the other diagonal line from the corner on
  the left to vanishing point B.
• They cross at the rear corner of your form
  (completing the bottom side)

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Below Eye Level
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Two Point Review

• Horizon line and two vanishing points
• One vertical line
• Diagonal lines to vanishing points
• Two vertical lines for the ends
• (If needed) Two more diagonal lines to the
  vanishing points for the bottom of your form.

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Remember this?
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Which Tree is Larger?
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One Point Perspective
The closer things get to the vanishing point, the
smaller and farther away they look.
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One Point Renaissance