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Overview:
On 14×17 inch white paper draw two imaginary cityscapes where one is made using one-point perspective and the other is two-point.
Due Date: xxxx [two weeks]
This is a two-week assignment. To receive full credit, you must finish 50% by [next week’s date] and 100% by [the following week’s date]
Instructions:
- Make TWO drawings, each on a SEPARATE sheet of 14×17 inch paper. Do NOT draw on both sides of one sheet.
- Draw your horizon line. Since the horizon is the artist’s eye level, its location will determine whether we see your city from bird’s eye, normal or worm’s eye view.
- Put your one or two vanishing points on the horizon line. For the two-point perspective drawing, be sure these points are at the edge of the page.
- Draw boxes for buildings.
- Add 3-dimensional doorways, windows with 3-dimensional ledges, cut-out corners, tunnels, bridges, sidewalks, roads, alleyways.
- Stack boxes on top of boxes to give buildings more varied shapes.
- Pay attention to size, location and shape for visual and spatial variety.
- Upload these unfinished drawings to the City Drawings category housed under Student Posts in OpenLab
- Be creative!
Learning Outcomes:
- To understand the basics of perspective, including horizon line, vanishing points and size variation
- To use linear perspective to create spatial complexity
- To increase awareness of 2-dimensional design as it relates to 3-dimensional illusion
Resources:
Click HERE for the following resources:
- YouTube video: Introduction to one-point perspective
- YouTube video: How to draw a simple box in two-point perspective
- Step-by-step: How to draw one and two-point persp24ective boxes with doorways, cut-out corners and windows
- Recording of week 3, [date xxx] class meeting
Checklist:
- Is there only one horizon line?
- Are vanishing points on the horizon line?
- For the two-point perspective drawing, are vanishing points located at the edge of the paper, outside the drawing’s border?
- For the one-point perspective drawing, is the vanishing point hidden by a building or other object?
- Do all guidelines go to the appropriate vanishing points?
- Have you included doorways, windows, cut-out corners, buildings of different overall shapes, roads, sidewalks and other features? (Staircases are extra credit.)
- Are features drawn in 3-dimensions?
- Are guidelines lightly drawn?
- Is the whole page used in a visually exciting manner, with size contrasts, strong positive/negative relationships, and spatial variety?
- Have you uploaded both photos of both drawings to the City Drawings category listed under Student Posts on OpenLab?
