| Perspective Exercises 3 |
| Also notice the shading on the masts to make them look round. |
| There was a site I found that suggests you make a kind of frame to view your painting through to get the perspective right. I don't know if this works, but the site is http://www.bcpl.net/~dstrow/use.html Click on "Home" to go |
| the explanation or click on the link to the right. |
| The drawing below also employs a single vanishing point, but that point is so distant that you must visualize its location in your mind. This will be the case with many drawings. I found this interesting perspective drawing on the Elfwood site and added the perspective lines. The Elfwood site has hundreds of such drawings. |
| Below is a single vanishing point drawing with the perspective lines drawn in red from the Roger Art site about drawing ships. |
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| Note how perspective gives you the illusion that you are looking upward at a soaring cathedral interior. |
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| Below is a cover for a book that I worked on with a writer friend of mine, Paul Roebling. You will notice that this picture has two vanishing points which must be imagined off to each side. The perspective lines to these vanishing points are drawn in red. |
| The lower steps don't correspond to the perspective lines, and Paul admits this was his mistake. Notice how the shadows indicate the direction from which the sun is shining. |
| The music is "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by the Kingston Trio. |
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| To the right is a painting by the Dutch artist Ostade done in 1680. I have drawn in the perspective lines in red. No realistic picture can be made without taking into consideration perspective. This is another example of a single-point perspective. |