Feb. 14 – Drawing Skills: One Point Perspective

Learning Goals: Understand and apply the rules of one point perspective.

Success Criteria: You can draw a cube using one point perspective above, below and on the horizon line.

Today I discussed some art history with you.  We briefly looked at art from different eras and regions such as these images:

One thing you can see about all these historic drawings and paintings is that they look very flat.  At what point did people start drawing the illusion of 3D?  Let's look at the last image as an example.  Look at the progression in these images that all show the same subject matter:

The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci

What did Da Vinci do to make his image look so much more three dimensional than the others?  Leonardo lived and worked in a time we now call the Renaissance (around 1500s).  During this time an architect known as Filippo Brunelleschi came up with the rules of linear perspective.  Using these rules, artists were able to create the illusion of depth and space on a flat surface.  Look at this fresco by Raphael to see more examples of these rules:

Handout: Perspective

Then I went through, step by step, how to draw a cube using one point perspective.

Checklist

Here are the tasks you should be doing at this moment in order of importance:

• Portfolio photo and word file in Dropbox shared with me (see previous post.)
• Value drawings from yesterday.
• Three cubes from different angles using one point perspective, complete with shading and shadows.