Day 6: Everything in perspective...

Perspective is part of every drawing and if you don't learn it and understand it everything you draw will always look either very very odd or - if you ignore perspective altogether - very two dimensional and odd.

Just like everything else in art it has rules that should be followed and just like everything else it also requires judgement and practice.

If you don't know what perspective is here's a handy guide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXypyrutq_M

Best. Clip. Ever... 😂

To start with I've been learning the rules about single point perspective. This is where horizontal and vertical remain flat and perpendicular respectively, but where the depth line flows towards a single vanishing point. Its the easy way in.

Well easy, unless you have a needy, attention seeking, glamorous assistant...

Once Lucy got bored I did the first exercise in learning single point - the railway line.

Then I added some trees, a house, a stream and a road to demonstrate poor judgement. In my defense I will say I got the grass right by the time I did the left embankment (of the track not the stream lol) - which I am mightily chuffed about!

I'm going to stick with this for a while as I feel I need a lot more work on this before I start doing figures, etc which I am getting along better with. This is about learning to do the things I struggle with after all. The next few blogs will be centered around this.

Oh yeah...and I got a drawing board and a whole load of new toys! I'll talk about them next time.