Perspectives

For our lesson on perspectives we were looking into how each one differentiates from the other and to experiment from different angles how an object would appear if it was close or far away from the camera.

Before we started doing our own drawings we were researching into art and animations where perspectives are implemented and why they are useful, as well as looking into the history of how drawing perspectives has changed over the years.

In this side-by-side comparison you can see that the painting on the left doesn't include any perspective view at all, from the terminology I've learnt by using 3D software I can actually describe this painting as being "orthographic". This can be clearly visible by looking at the seats the people are sitting on as they don't lose their size the further back they go, whereas in the drawing on the right you can see that the further back an object is the smaller it appears. This was important to understand as an artist as it helps us show how much better a drawing can be by implementing perspectives compared to a drawing with no perspective intentions at all.

Here were my experiments with different points of perception, although I did find it quite complicated at first I can definitely see how I can use it when drawing my background. In the top left was my practice attempts with one point perspectives where it has a horizon and a vanishing point. I drew shapes in different locations and began to connect the lines from the vertices onto the vanishing point which gave it this cool 3D effect, this was the easiest to learn and gave out really clean results.

The drawings with the doors was where I practiced two point perspective, where the drawing had two vanishing points instead of one. This was weird things started to become lost to me as I couldn't quite capture the movement right, nevertheless I gave it my best shot and I think this perspective might become the most useful once I've completely picked it up.

Lastly, and by far the most complex was three-point perspective which unsurprisingly had three vanishing points this time. At first I really couldn't wrap my head around this one, however by referencing others drawings and seeing how they created drawings with it I created quite a good looking sketch in the bottom left corner where a man is looking down from a skyscraper onto a busy street. I can imagine using this technique in the future if I ever wanted to exaggerated how big something was compared to someone or something else, it really dramatises the whole scene and I personally love it.