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.
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