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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?