One Point Perspective Letters 4/2/2014
We started out this project by learning about what is necessary in a one point perspective drawing. Perspective is all about how we as humans see things. We see things differently than animals and insects...both in colors and in how many eyes we have! We also see things differently
depending on where we are looking. If we are on the ground, things will look really different from if we were looking down at them from the
sky. When looking at something from a one point perspective, it means that everything seems to go backwards in the picture plane to almost disappear into ONE vanishing point. We can create this illusion by drawing in the horizon line, adding in our vanishing point, and then using
orthogonal lines to show objects getting smaller as they seen to get further away. We will be doing practice cityscapes and interiors, then
moving onto using perspective in graffiti lettering.
depending on where we are looking. If we are on the ground, things will look really different from if we were looking down at them from the
sky. When looking at something from a one point perspective, it means that everything seems to go backwards in the picture plane to almost disappear into ONE vanishing point. We can create this illusion by drawing in the horizon line, adding in our vanishing point, and then using
orthogonal lines to show objects getting smaller as they seen to get further away. We will be doing practice cityscapes and interiors, then
moving onto using perspective in graffiti lettering.
Masking Tape Perspective!
Students used masking tape to create cityscapes in the Art hallway. We couldn't keep them up for long since the Custodians warned us about the tape getting too sticky, but we kept them up for 2 days for other students to see. We had a lot of comments on what we were doing! Some of the younger students seem to be looking forward to trying this when they get to 7th grade! Older students were explaining one point perspective to other students as they walked by. It was really fun to hear the comments that came out the students mouths:)