Isometric Perspective

Hi all,
This week you are to make an isometric perspective drawing of your home--or at least of a floor of your home if it has multiple stories.  Include all the detritus (stuff on the floors and walls) in your house as well.
Remember that in isometric perspective there are no vanishing points.  Things look closer only because they are lower on the page, not because they are smaller.  Therefore, parallel lines must STAY parallel.  Feel free to use a straight edge.  Good luck!

Week of 10/19

Hi All,
This week you are to make a Drawing of an interior part of your house in such a way that Linear Perspective breaks down, often refered to as Open Perspective. You are to choose a cone of vision that is too broad for the straight lines of formal linear perspective to convincingly convey.  In a wide cone of vision you'll need to make those "straight"lines curved in order to show convincing space.  Think of a fish-eyed camera lens and draw like that.  Easy-peezy!

BTW, it goes without saying that you are to include all the stuff--furniture, wall hangings, doors and windows--that you would see in the space you choose to draw; also to be drawn in open perspective.

Week of 10/12

Hi All!
This week in your sketchbook you are to make a Linear Perspective Drawing. You are to make a drawing of an interior room in perspective that has at least one door or window through which you can see at least one other room (a hallway counts as a room).  Include the objects that are in the room and draw them in one or two point perspective as appropriate (i.e. furniture, framed pictures, appliances, shelving, etc.)  So there will be a room--with the objects in it--in the foreground as well as the background. 

Use 1 and/or 2 point perspective, but also things as you see them.  Do NOT include the extended orthogonal lines of perspective (erase them)!  This should be an interesting finished drawing, not a sterile sketch, so take as much time as you need to finish it.  Mind that you don’t choose a subject for which the rules of linear perspective break down.  Instead, choose a subject that will lend itself to perspective with dramatic diagonals and angles moving away into space!  It’s your choice, and therefore your responsibility.  Use the whole page.  Obviously you won’t be able to draw things life sized, but take the time to think about how big stuff will be on your page.

Remember to note your eye level and make sure all vanishing point happen at your eye level. All parallel lines share the same vanishing point. Also, make sure all straight lines stay straight! They can wobble, but make sure they end up going in the same direction that they started.

I realize that this will be a real challenge for the most of you.  That's okay!  Embrace the challenge, and next week in class I'll show you more ways to think about and explore Linear Perspective.  This is just the first exercise.  Just do your best.

Week of 10/5

This week you are to use the spatial strategies that we discussed in class (see image below) and make a drawing that uses ALL of these strategies to make a drawing with a fully rounded sense of illusionistic space.

The subject of your drawing may be anything appropriate for expressing both deep and shallow space.  Somewhere in your drawing there should be the illusion of only a few feet of depth, and somewhere there should be the illusion of infinite space (i.e. sky).  I only ask that you drawing is as beautifully crafted as you are able.  Do not just do it to get it done.  Have pride in your work . . . !