Perspective: Week 6

These classes are expedited, so there are only three days in week six. Then, the next class begins immediately after. Except between semesters, then we get a little over a week off. Anyway, the only assignment that I submitted this week was my final piece. Then, we finished with critiques of each other's work. I got a lot of great feedback in this class and really fed off of it. This was my first class so far that included actual drawing and I was beyond excited about it. I don't draw much any more, so it was nice to have a true reason to set my butt down and put something on paper. It gave me some confidence to know that I still remembered how at all. lol Here are a few various views of my final:

Perspective: Week 5

The fifth week we had to draw more in-depth and difficult objects. I thought I chose pretty difficult objects for the first drawing, so I just tried to find more obsure shapes for this one. We had to submit the outlines first, and then the same objects with shading and shadows added. Here are those:

Then, our next assignment was to come up with four different ideas to do for our final project and submit those thumbnails. Here were my four ideas that I posted:

I worked so hard on the ideas with the marbles. I just fell in love with the idea and wanted to come up with an image using them somehow. So, I came up with the first three... and could NOT think of a fourth idea. It was late, I had been up for hours and it was nearly the deadline. So, I quickly drew the idea for the island that I had used in the far background of a dragon picture many, many years ago. Which was everyone's favorite you might ask...? You got it, the island... *sigh* life just works that way at times, doesn't it? lol

Perspective: Week 4

Week four in Perspective became a bit more in depth, which I craved at this point. We began learning about how to draw shadows and reflections. I was absolutely intrigued. I had only been shown how to "guess" where the light source was and therefore "guess" where the shadows would be. I had not realized there could be any formula involved (if you can call it that.) This was the first time I had ever been shown that there is a way to figure out exactly where the shadows would lay. It was very exciting and something I know I will use in the future! Here is some of my work from this week:





This first one was just a shadow excercise. We had to place objects under the light at different angles and draw them. Pretty basic stuff here.





This second drawing was of various objects with the same light source drawn in two-point perspective. The small circle near the top would be the light source. The dot directly beneath that is the shadow source. You use that dot to draw the shadow lines just as you do the object; using those orthogonal lines that I wanted to erase desperately! hehe I liked how this one turned out.



The last one is a made up landscape drawing using what we learned about shadows and reflections. Nothing special as far as the drawing goes, but I enjoyed drawing it anyway.

Perspective: Week 3

The third week in Perspective class we learned about three-point perspective. There are two types of three-point perspective; bird's eye view (from above) and worm's eye view (from below.) I had not realized that this meant that the horizon should be quite high or quite low. All of our past projects had the horizon near the middle, so I goofed a bit on this one. It was the only few points I missed this entire class. I was just shy of a 100%. Anyway, here is what I turned in:





Also, please note that we were required to keep all those extra lines in our drawings (orthogonal lines), which drove me insane. I wanted to erase them ALL! lol

Perspective: Week 2

This week we learned about two-point perspective. I really enjoyed this week in class. I had some great classmates that left some terrific feedback. I guess that's really the best thing about taking these online classes. A large portion of our grade is class discussion so while talking about each other's work is a bit forced, it really works out so well. We really get a lot of constructive critism; and more importantly for me - we learn out to GIVE constructive feedback. Anyway, here's some work from this week in class:

Perspective: Week 1

Here are some of my projects from the first week in my perspective class. We learned about one-point perspective. I thought it was going to be a bit like going over things I had already learned in high school... so repetitive, I guess. However, it was a great course. I really learned a lot, especially about how to lay out shadows, but I'll get into that in a later post. Here's my work: