Today You Will:
Get your compositon together. You will use today to work through perspective problems and determine how areas between images will connect.
Next class you should be ready to start on your final pencil sketch immediately. This means if you have not finished your composition ideas you will need to work through them for homework.
Plan how your own images will combine into one unified artwork using perspective. Your final piece can feel realistic or imaginative, but it should read as one intentional space rather than separate images.
Identify Perspective
- Look at each of your images and identify the perspective used.
- Label whether each image shows one point perspective, two point perspective, or a bird’s eye view.
- Lightly mark the horizon line and vanishing point or points.
Choose a Main Perspective
- Decide which image sets the dominant perspective for the final artwork.
- Determine where the viewer is positioned and where the horizon line will be.
- All other images should adapt to this choice.
3. Plan How Images Connect
- Sketch directly on printed images, in your sketchbook, or digitally.
- Show how buildings, roads, paths, or forms will flow together.
- Use overlap to blend edges and avoid cut and paste looking transitions.
- Consider foreground, middle ground, and background.
4. Create Unity
- Choose at least two ways to make the artwork feel cohesive.
- Repeat shapes, lines, or patterns.
- Use a shared light source.
- Keep a similar level of detail or style throughout.
Planning may be done printed (collage images by hand), sketched, or digitally (procreate, adobe, or even google slides to manipulate images). This class period is for mapping ideas and making intentional decisions, not finishing the final artwork.