Lesson 3: Creating Depth

Perspective

1. When you are drawing, or taking photographs, or cutting out images - actively develop an awareness of perspective as you see it in your daily life.
2. Because you have become a scout for new ideas, techniques and methods keep looking at your environment.
3. As you see powerful examples of perspective around you take photographs, quickly sketch them, trace the photographs. Do any thing you find useful in your quest for knowledge, but study the examples carefully.
4. Ask yourself is this one point or two point perspective?
5. Ask your self "where is the light source coming from?"
6. Don't get caught up in it! Just become more and more aware.
7. Consciously saturate yourself in perspective and eventually you will just intuitively see like that.

Good luck then! If you come up with really good drawings or have difficulties let's tease them out in the discussion area.

1. One Point Perspective

In one point perspective there is only one vanishing point.

Technique Demonstration: One-Point Perspective.

2. Two point perspective

3. The difference between one point and two point perspective explained. "In one-point perspective, the forms are seen face on and are drawn to a single vanishing point. Objects seen at an angle would be drawn with two-point perspective using two vanishing points."
4. Foreshortening

   foreshortening explained

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