Overview:

Make one perspective drawing of the same collection of simple geometric shapes placed so no object shares the same vanishing points

Due Date: xxxx

Instructions:

This assignment requires partners working together. Each student makes one drawing following the guidelines below. The partner then makes a second drawing depicting how these same objects would look seen from a different vantage point.

Guidelines:

  • On 14×17 inch paper, make one drawing, with one horizon line.
  • Include at least one box, cylinder, cone and sphere.
  • Draw the sphere in one-point perspective. None of the other objects share any vanishing points.
  • Overlap objects.
  • For every object, first draw the guideline box and then put the object inside that box.
  • Draw all invisibles with dotted lines.
  • Pay attention to design, i.e. page placement, relative sizes and negative shapes between objects and to the paper’s edge, as well as line quality.
  • Use your folded origami boxes to help imagine the 3-dimensionality of the space.
  • Upload your and your partners drawings together to the Multiple Vanishing Points category housed under Student Posts in OpenLab.

Learning Outcomes:

  • To understand how to incorporate objects pointing in all directions into one unified 3-dimensional space
  • To further understand depth illusion created by perspective, including invisible sides and spaces between objects
  • To be able to design the whole page using just multiple 3-dimensional objects

Resources:

Click HERE for the following resources for making drawings with one and two point perspective:

  • Step-by-Step written instructions
  • Examples of drawings with multiple vanishing points
  • YouTube video of three objects, each with different vanishing points
  • How to create an origami box: YouTube video and step-by-step
  • Recording [provide hyperlink] of [date xxx] class meeting

Checklist:

  • Have you drawn at least one of the following 3-dimensional objects on both your own and partner’s drawings? Box, cylinder, cone, sphere.
  • Is only the sphere drawn in one-point perspective?
  • Have you overlapped objects in your original drawing?
  • Have you collaborated with a partner and made a new drawing showing how your partner’s setup would look from a different position?
  • Have you lightly drawn all box guidelines and guidelines to vanishing points?
  • Have you drawn all invisibles with dotted lines?
  • Have you considered the entire page for design, for instance size, shape line contrasts and positive/negative shapes?
  • Have you uploaded your and your partner’s drawing the Multiple Vanishing Points category housed under Student Posts in OpenLab?