Perspective

All three of these pieces use one point perspective with a single vanishing point to create the illusion of depth is the scenes. I did this by angling the partially visible sides of three dimensional objects toward the vanishing point .

The fist step in the process is to draw lines connecting opposite corners, and the point where they intersect is my vanishing point. I also then have four triangles: one on top, one on the bottom, and one on either side. Then I start drawing the elements of the picture or scene. In the top and bottom triangles, all the vertical lines are tilted toward the vanishing point and the horizontal lines are spaced so that they become closer together as they near the vanishing point. Likewise, in the triangles on the sides, all the horizontal lines are tilted toward the vanishing point while the vertical lines become closer as they get farther away. This is done to mimic our eyes squishing things together as they get farther from us. To create this effect in the top and bottom triangles, I drew a point on the horizon line and from the "vertical" lines i drew lines to it. This created intersections between those lines and the "vertical" lines. by connecting the points of intersection I got horizontal lines which came together as they became more distant. The same technique is used for the side triangles, just oriented in the opposite way.

In the first piece a the top, I chose random overlapping shapes to use one point perspective with merely for practice. The next piece however, required more thought. I chose a train station because I thought the arches and train tracks would fit into the one point perspective setting well. A train station also included all the criteria that was required for the drawing; shelves, a bench, chairs, an open door, etc. In the last piece directly above I chose this view of the hallway because it included an open door, alcoves, and hallways at the end, all of were interesting contributions to the piece.