Linear Perspective

The process of creating a one point perspective drawing starts by drawing the horizon line. For the shapes drawing we just put it in the middle of the page but when drawing a room or a hallway the horizon line would go at your eye level on the back wall. The vanishing point is a point that you can put anywhere on the horizon line that everything will go back to. For the shapes drawing we had to put five shapes above the horizon line and five below. An example of how one point perspective works is if I drew a square somewhere above the horizon line then I would use a ruler to line up each corner with the vanishing point. then on those lines I would copy the sides of the square and make it look 3D. When I drew a room or a hallway I started out with a rectangle for the back wall and created a horizon line and a vanishing point in the rectangle. Then I lined up the vanishing point with the corners to make the walls, floor, and ceiling. For all of the furniture I would do the same thing I did with the basic shapes and make everything in the room go back to the vanishing point. For the formative we created our own room with the required things in it but for the summative we went outside the art room and drew the hallway.

The summative demonstrates that I understand the principles of drawing in linear perspective because I was able to apply the things we learned about drawing in one point perspective to an actual place. For example I used the horizon line and found about where my eyes were level to the back wall and added a vanishing point on the horizon line which everything in the hallway was lined up with. We also were supposed to add something unique to the drawing so I made footprints going down the hallway. Something that worked well in my drawing was that the walls and everything on them all go back to the vanishing point which makes it look more realistic. Something that didn't turn out well was the pictures on the wall because their lines were not straight even though I used a ruler.