2 Point Perspective Work
This week, I had a brief of practicing 2-point
perspective using household objects.
Drawing 1:
I had the
personal objective of also getting used to drawing ellipses/circular objects,
as this was something I struggled with last week with the mug, so I set myself
a drawing with almost exclusively circular objects. I really enjoyed this; it
was a great learning process for how to get the circles to look like a similar
perspective and how to approach shading circular objects. I used multiple
grades of graphite pencil for this, as well as a charcoal pencil for the
darkest areas to accentuate shadows. This helped break up what I had last week
which was an issue with making my mid-tones too dark, and to combat the issue I
saw I rolled my putty eraser over areas that were too dark which lifted enough
graphite to compensate. If I were to redo this drawing, I would work more to
find highlights to the shiny areas and also work more on the cardboard reel at
the front of the drawing, as this looks a lot sloppier in comparison to the
tape reels and containers. I think the box in the back is also a good example
of complex perspective work, as the lid and the box are both on very different
perspectives.
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Circular Objects |
Drawing 2:
The second drawing I did focussed more on box shapes at many different angles, as I wanted a lot of practice on a more angular form after doing so many circles. This drawing was a lot quicker – the original sketch took maybe 45-mins to an hour to make sure it was correct, but the actual rendering took a much shorter time (20 mins) due to the monochrome pastel medium used. I enjoyed this medium, although I would not use it for any finished pieces as it worked best for laying out flat shapes and tones a lot better than complex tones. I also had to blend the pastel a lot since the tooth of my paper left many white spaces that distracted from the final image, which meant a lot of the edges appeared very soft. I did enjoy the process however of putting in the darkest and lightest first, then the central mid-tone and correcting in the middle from there, as it meant blending was very fast and effective.
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Boxes Pastel Drawing |
UPDATE:
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After
receiving critique, I went back and fixed the issues with perspective in the
updated version. This meant that the two point perspective was more accurate,
and the boxes looked a lot more grounded on the table and one top of each
other. I also fixed a pointed ellipse on the circular container on the right.
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Boxes with fixed perspective |
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