Week #3: Perspective Drawing Exercise

Early this week we talked about perspective drawing and performed an exercise in teaching and learning how to draw perspective.

If I were going to teach a lesson in perspective drawing I would approach the subject in much the same way as we did in class.  I would introduce the concept by having students follow along to complete a couple of simple line drawings.  After going over one and two point perspective I would have students use photographs of architecture place on top of newsprint, or under tracing paper, to trace the horizon lines and find the vanishing points “in real life.”

(Retrieved from: http://charlieserafini.blogspot.com/2014/10/invisible-cities-perspective-exercises.html)

Examples of the simple line drawing introduction.

Examples of a vanishing points being found in a photograph.  Similar to the exercise I would have students perform. *

After this exercise I would have my students begin an architectural, imagined-cityscape drawing.  I would prompt them to draw illustrations for Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.  I would allow them the option of choosing to complete a one point, two point, or, in the case of an advanced or ambitious student, a three point drawing.  I would encourage the students to experiment with a variety of architectural styles, include detail, and work on a large scale.

Examples of student perspective drawings.

*(retrieved from: http://bradyarchitecturalphotography.com/one-and-two-point-perspective-in-architectural-photography/ , http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/participants/sanders/1ptPersp.html  and http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/one-point-perspective-drawing)