Perspective Work

Perspective Practice 

Artist Study: Nathan Walsh

We practiced multiple perspectives, low and high view point perspectives and 1-5 point perspectives. We used the horizon line, vanishing point, and vanishing lines, then drew 3 dimensional shapes or building following those guidelines. I also did an artist study on Nathan Walsh. He made illustrations in a panorama-like style, merging multiple perspectives of one scene.

Images used for final photo

3 Sketches for the piece

I used photos containing crosswalks because they often connect streets and building that are angled differently from the constructions that the crosswalk connects them with. These variety of angles could help me achieve a wide. panorama-like photo, which I would edit the photos to make it seem they all belong in one shot. I then sketched the collaged photo more than once to make the connections between images seem more natural.

Each of my sketches had arrows and notes to how I wanted the drawing to be revised, whether it was to change the angle of a building or the distance between each corner. Following these notes, I created my sketch for my final piece. A lot of measuring was needed to make this piece because there were a lot of geometric shapes and straight lines, as well as the angle of the surface of what ever I was drawing. After the sketching, I would use an ink pen to line on top of the light pencil sketch. 

Perspective is a skill I would have to practice and use very often in art, so I think learning and practicing multiple point perspectives are very helpful. However, next time I would prefer to add elements in the drawing other than buildings or rectangular and sharply cornered shapes. Those shapes need to be much more accurately drawn to the angle it is at than shapes that are less geometric. For example, exaggerating features of more complex shapes, such as the fisheye practice sketch I did was more fun because it had more freedom in the lines, without having to measure each length and angle, as well as the stronger, curved, exaggeration of the photo makes it seem more dynamic. Ultimately, I still think this was a fun piece to work on as it not only gave my an opportunity to practice skills like perspective, but it let me creatively choose the arrangement of the final photo by collaging different pictures into one.