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Overview:
To draw multiple objects in a room illusionistically proportional to each other by using a perspective grid system
Due Date: xxxx
Instructions:
- This is a collaborative assignment, to be done with a partner. Discuss drawing strategies with your partner before starting to draw.
- On 14×17 inch white paper, and using 2-point perspective, draw a room with walls, floor and ceiling based on square tiles.
- Populate the room with at least five different 3-dimensional shapes or objects.
- Place the objects on the floor, hanging from the ceiling and extended from the walls.
- Overlap at two of these shapes.
- Make some shapes large and some small.
- Make these shapes as complex as you and your partner are comfortable with. If your partner is unable to make prints, draw relatively simple shapes that can easily be redrawn with digital drawing tools.
- Before drawing anything, discuss with your partner your printer availability and also digital drawing options. You are collaborating!
- Make clones (carbon copies) of your five initial objects and place the clones throughout the room. Use the grids to ensure all clones LOOK like their parent shape and size despite being moved to different locations and even rotated. Overlap at least three objects.
- Your room now has 10 objects.
- Photograph your drawing.
- Exchange drawings with your partner and add an additional cloned copy of each of the five shapes your partner drew, so each drawing now has 15 objects, plus the grids.
- Always consider design. At each stage in the process the design should be strong.
- Upload photos of your original drawing, along with the collaborative drawing between you and your partner, to the Grid category housed under Student Posts on Open Lab.
Learning Outcomes:
- To understand how the ground plane defines location and scale in a 3-dimensional image
- To understand the underlying grid structure to 3-dimensional space
- To practice collaboration
- To continue developing design skills when creating realistic 3-dimensional space
Resources:
Click HERE for the following resources:
- Grid diagrams
- Step-by-step drawings with written annotation
- Examples from fine artists
- Recording [provide hyperlink] of [date xxxx] class meeting
Checklist:
- Have you drawn square tiles on the floor, wall and ceiling?
- Did you draw two copies of five different objects for a total of ten objects before exchanging your drawing with a partner?
- Did you photograph your drawing before exchanging it with your partner?
- Did you discuss drawing strategies with your partner BEFORE starting your own drawing?
- Have you added clones to your partner’s drawing of the five objects your partner initially drew?
- Have you considered design?
- Have you uploaded photos of your original drawing, along with the collaborative drawing between you and your partner, to the Grid category housed under Student Posts on Open Lab?
