PARALLEL PERSPECTIVE – AN INTERIOR VIEW
I made this exercise (unintentionally) more difficult by sitting in an elevated position on the stairs. I learned quite a bit from this exercise, as I did make a few errors. I didn’t know where the vanishing point should be for the staircase – should it be on the ground in front, or at eye level? I got very confused with the left hand staircase – hence two sets of stair rails drawn. The lighter drawing followed the perspective rules more closely, I thought – but it didn’t look like the reality I was actually seeing with my eyes.. Conclusion: Needs more practise!
I tried to redress the problems I had found – see the image below. I used eye level for the vanishing point for the stairs and for the ground level. This seemed to work better – though I still doubted the left hand side of the stairs, as it didn’t match my reality. I think I should have elevated the vanishing points behind me to create a steeper angle.
ANGULAR PERSPECTIVE
Below was a quick sketch Id done of an old high street (from a bedroom window) before I had considered the exercise on vanishing points.
I made a quick re-draw of the scene, below, to try and bring more perspective to the piece.
I think applying perspective does improve the realism of the sketch. However, as the high street buildings were a few hundred years old the sketch loses out in other ways. The buildings, in reality, were a bit crooked and uneven. So I would only use the lines as bones to a final drawing, as the haphazard build of the houses also needs representing. They look a bit ‘new build’ in the drawing below.
I park in a multi storey car park for work and this lent itself as inspiration for a drawing to highlight perspective. The man made lines and angles of the car park, along with its large size, are a great place to demonstrate perspective. This drawing was quite challenge, as I realised there were multiple vanishing points to apply. These points had to be applied to the parked cars too. I didn’t get it right on the left hand side of the drawing, where the 2 cars are parked as their parking spaces don’t recede at a tight enough angle.
AERIAL OR ATMOSPHERIC PERSEPCTIVES
I drew some quick sketches and tried to suggest atmospheric perspective with tone – making my horizon’s nearly white – but smudging and using blue to try and achieve a misty effect. I quite like the charlcoal sketch with tone as it seems quite brooding.
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