Perspective Drawings

Precedents






Above there are one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective drawings. Out of this set, the 3-point perspective was the hardest to draw because there was more to think about in the configuration of the horizontal and vertical lines.

Perspective Drawings

Room Perspectives
2-point

1-point


Practicing with Perspectives

Here are some perspective drawings that we have been working on in class. We are learning to draw one-point, two-point, and three-point perspectives as well as how to tell the difference between these when looking at architecture from different views.

Leaf Drawing

This is a drawing I worked on outside of class. I practiced using dots and patterns with my medium instead of using line strokes which is typical with most of my drawings. My inspiration came from the patterns that are shown in the elevation of the building drawing below.

Elevation View

Outline

Plan View of Walls

Plan View

Drawing Exercises

Plan View and North Arrows

Lighting Project

This was my final lighting fixture drawing.

This project focused on zooming in and out, examining a light from different angles, and again using a viewfinder to help with the tasks.

Architecture Project in the Studio Arts Building

Architectural Hardware

Lighting

Architectural Detail

My Final Combination Drawing

This was my final drawing for the cell phone and twig project. It was a piece that combined all of my previous skills and drawings into one final pattern.

Sticks and Cell Phones

These drawings showed the most contrast out of any of the work I did for this project



These thumbnails helped me to focus on small parts of a larger drawing. By drawing quickly all of these small images, I began to develop sort of a pattern. These sketches became less about perfection and more about simplifying my drawings in any way possible.


These drawings were more focused on combining, layering, and rotating my cell phone and twigs.





Assignment Description:
All of the drawings are part of a series. In class we drew our cell phones and twigs by using a 2"x 2" viewfinder. In some drawings more than others, as you can see above, I focused on different attributes of my drawing such as contrast. We started off by drawing the details of our cell phones and our twigs. We then drew 128 thumbnails of these drawings. Each time we started on new drawings we based them on our previous drawings but improved them. One thing that was really helpful in this process was learning how to use different sizes of pens and markers to adjust the thickness of my lines and curves. I developed a sense of depth and the more I used this technique the more visually interesting my drawings became. I learned how to draw the eye towards and away from certain areas of the page by doing this.

Morning Exercises

I thought this was a good warm up because I attempted it more than once and I saw instant progress. I simply added some more detail and some shading and the image was drastically improved.

Twig Drawing

This was a drawing of my twigs bunched together so that I could get used to drawing and shading them.

Architecture 2030

Today in Studio Theory Hour there was a guest speaker who came to talk about sustainability and its importance. Our guest speaker was named John Lynn and he was very informative on national preservation of energy. He introduced his ideas in a way that appealed to the audience in a unique way. One of the first things he brought up was a rhetoric question: "What would you see if you were a fish?". Then he proceeded to show a series of slides about things that the average person wouldn't have thought of in response to this question. It was automatically interesting just to hear his point of view and this approach got my attention right away.

John Lynn introduced sustainability as an important issue that needs clarification and attention. He talked about the impact that humans have on the environment and what it would be like if we were not here on this Earth. He used and overall idea of a storm to illustrate his thought process on a close up basis as well as zooming out and looking at sustainability from different perspectives. The storm was an interesting analogy because he explained about how when a storm destroys a place it is also creating all along the way, it is designing something new with its own path. This is similar to what humans do. We tend to rebuild and rebuild new things but we don't always see what we are destroying along the way.

One thing I really liked about this presentation was that our guest speaker was very passionate about what he preached. He seemed like he honestly just wanted to get the message across that some things, that we as teenagers aren't educated about and probably never think about, can be very important minor details. These are the types of things that will make the world a better place as a whole.

Left And Right Hand Drawings

This assignment consisted of drawing my right hand with my left hand, and drawing my left hand with my right. This was an exercise that challenged me. I had no problem in drawing with my right hand, but when I was forced to use another part of my brain to draw with my left hand, I had difficulty focusing on the contours of my drawing. I also had trouble darkening my lines and going over them so that the image turned out differently as a result. It is obvious that i used a different hand for each of these drawings. It is also interesting how my left hand work is disproportional even though I was trying to make it just as good as my other drawing.

Song Lyrics

5 Things and Hand Drawing

Negative Space with Bike

This bike drawing did not turn out very clear the first time so i retraced the lines and drew and scanned it again.