Term 2, Perspective II, Week 3
For a description of this unit see my Perspective II unit plan. For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum.
Retrospective
This week I’m picking up where I left off in Perspective II. I only did 2 weeks last time, so I’m finishing the remaining two weeks now. I learned a lot about perspective this week working through the New Masters Academy Linear Perspective course. It’s very thorough. However, I’m having the usual problem when learning perspective, which is that I learn a lot but don’t draw much. A better way to put it is that I’m not applying what I learn yet.
Log
I can get pretty close to 40 hours in now that I have Mondays off.
I added a new category called “prep” this week because I spent several hours preparing for painting.
Since I only have one ellipse template, all the wheels I draw will be the same size and similar looking. Symmetrical tire tread wrapping around a cylinder in perspective is probably the hardest thing there is to draw.
Rotating cubes in different views.
Staining a canvas and the bottom of my glass palette.
I’m going to start painting on Monday, now that I’ve dropped down to working only 36 hours a week. This week I got one coat of stain on my canvas and palette. It’s supposed to be a more neutral grey, but I think it takes a couple coats to get to that color.
I also built a basic easel this week. It doesn’t look like much (actually Medium is making it look really warped with the 1:1 aspect ratio its using), but I think it will be functional. It cost about $10 in materials. I followed this video.
I’m going to paint following the method outlined at drawmixpaint.com. Next Monday I need to make a palette table, color checker, shadow box, and brush holder. The following Monday, I should be able to finally start painting.
Tuesday, Mar. 16
Drawabox wheels.
Transferring heights and equal-length bars around.
Following a David Finch perspective tutorial.
Drawing in the grid first made this a lot easier than some of the perspective drawings I’ve attempted in the past. It helps that it’s in 1-point perspective.
Wednesday, Mar. 17
Drawabox wheels.
Moving people and boxes around a scene.
Parallel triangular planes.
Finch perspective.
Thursday, Mar. 18
Drawabox wheels.
Equal-sized boxes.
Equally space, equal-sized boxes.
Finch perspective.
Friday, Mar. 19
Drawabox wheels.
Perfect squares using a 45 degree measuring point from the station point.
I like how all the perspective lessons involve a station point and a cone of vision. Keeping them in the scene helps me understand some things (like placing 90 degree angles in perspective) that were lost on me before.
Farmhouse.
Finch perspective.
Saturday, Mar. 20
Drawabox wheels.
Perfect squares receding into space.
Various cones of vision.
Thumbnail compositions using the cone of vision.
Side view, top view, and perspective view (architectural plan).
A gridded room in 1-point.
Reverse-engineering a cone of vision.
A 2-point book on a 1-point table.
Different film aspect ratios as they relate to lens size and cone of vision.
Sunday, Mar. 21
Drawabox wheels.
Ellipses in 1-point perspective.
A castle tower.
A perspective view and side view in one scene.
Overlooking a valley.
Valley side view.
Diminishment guides when the 45 degree measuring point is off the page.
This is probably the most useful thing to learn. I’m looking forward to learning how to do this in 2 and 3-point perspective.
Moving boxes and figures around a scene.
