Drawing Perspective

the ONE thing that really cant be wrong

SKETCHING ON-SITE & LINEAL PERSPECTIVE:

• Shows depth/volume on a 1 dimensional surface ie paper.
• Look for a VIP - a Very Important Perpendicular, this is your starting point
• Make sure photos are straight to the horizon. The horizon line is your eye level whether you are sitting, standing, on the 20th floor or in a submarine!
• Always have a long pencil with you, looking directly at object, hold pencil up at arms length and mimic the angle, one eye closed. Maintain angle of pencil and bring down to paper - draw angle. Measure twice!!
• A general angle is best rather than thinking you can recreate “accuracy” - streets are not as straight as you think; windows don’t always align; pesky cars, trucks and buses obscure your view.
  
• VP Vanishing Point often trails off the paper
  
• Aerial perspective is atmospheric dust particles that “cloud” distant objects and forms by giving them a bluish tinge and reducing details as they recede into the distance
  
• There are many elements in a painting that can be altered and your work will be ok, lineal perspective is NOT one of them!

SINGLE POINT PERSPECTIVE CLOCK
Print your photo onto A4 paper, black & white is most useful, and draw/rule your own perspective lines with a red biro. 

go out drawing , observe for 20-30 minutes, what angles can you see you see how do they look when you move your pencil up to mimic. where you close or shockingly wrong.

keep it simple, then start drawing, keep it small no bigger than a5

ciao amanda