Linear Perspective

In this assignment, there were two different parts. The first part was to draw a room of our own choice and imagination using a viewpoint; the only required needs were that it included two chairs, a couch, a table, and many other features. After this formative, was told to do the same but with a hallway in our school and this was summative of the grade. The subject of my room takes place in an eerie room filled with happy but unsettling things, such as the hidden claw marks, and obviously the dark empty room. The second picture takes place in our own school before you enter the science wing and after you passed the red lockers. In this assignment, I only used pencils, erasers, and rulers.

During the creation of these two pieces, I used many elements and principles of design, for example, line and value shape. This is shown in many ways. For instance, this whole drawing's base and form were because of lines going to the viewpoint. Without lines, the piece wouldn't as realistic as it did now. Value shape is shown through all of the objects presented in both pieces. For example, the couch and the "smile" poster in the creative drawing and the lockers and bench in the school hallway. This is shown by the shading and the different lines to show that the objects aren't flat but contain volume and depth. Examples of principles of design that are shown in the piece include contrast and emphasis. Contrast can be seen in both drawings when the floor, walls, and ceiling get smaller as the drawing comes more to the center showing depth in the drawings. Now the emphasis is mostly seen in the creative drawing, which is seen with the dark eery room placed in the middle of the back wall. It's also very different from the rest of the room which can really grab someone's attention. My project evolved a little bit from my original idea. I first wanted to make the entire room creepy with maybe a few elements that were happy, but as I started drawing the room in the back, I realized that something. It would be original and cool to make the room that the viewer was in to be happy but to have features of it be eery and unnatural and switched my idea.

There's no specific place in mind when I created my room, but it would be somewhere where you were trapped like a prison, and everything seems kind of off. For instance, if you look closely on the bookshelf you can see the words spell "THE" "NOEL" "FALL" HOPE" and when they are horizontal they spell "HELP". Another strange feature is the claw marks on the wall and obviously the dark room. This project didn't relate to my life like any of the others did, but I do enjoy dark or creepy aspects of things. I am really proud of how both pieces came out, but I especially love the dark room. That easily took the most time out of anything else and it was definitely worth it. I think I struggled the most on just making sure both projects were done on time and I got everything required for the creative drawing. If I could change anything in my work to be stronger, I would say that I should've attempted to draw the plant in the hallway drawing instead of skipping right over it. Overall, I am very happy with both of these pieces though.