Week 2 - Landscape Theory & Perspective Drawing

Week 2 - Landscape Theory & Perspective 

I chose not to upload Week 1 of our course which was drawing techniques!

Perspective Piece (Hallway Scene)

The first piece of week 2 was a corridor scene which represents foreshortening and perspective, the vanishing point can be seen near the horizon line which is at the end of the hall way. 

The Orthogonal lines appear to get closer to the doors the further away they appear, in order to represent this correctly it was best to lightly draw the Orthogonal lines first and draw over them multiple times fixing the line each time.

The doors are the representation of foreshortening, notice how the doors appear smaller as the line of sight appears to get further away, to show true foreshortening the hallway could've gone on a little longer in order to show more of an understanding.

Landscape Theory

The next piece that week was a landscape drawing, this piece was poorly produced due to it not showing knowledge on things such as the orthogonal lines, foreshortening and 2 point perspective.

To begin with the layers of depth are actually presented, if you look towards the top right of the image you are able to see the silhouettes of buildings in the background, this increases the focus points strength and also makes it more pleasing to the viewer as it's not just a huge mess, the foreground could've been presented to a better degree as It could've included simple foliage in front of the building to make the building stand out a little more. Balancing could've been presented better as it looks very one sided to the right and very little to the left, because of this there is an unwanted area of interest as it's just practically empty, the line of interest goes across the top of the buildings going from left to right but again it could've been implied a whole lot better.

As for the rule of thirds you can see the building towards the left is shaded and detailed far more than that of the rest of the image, this was purposely done in order to hit one of the left points in the rule of thirds. 

To finish of the 3D perspective could've been presented greater as the building looks a little flat due to it not following the rules of foreshortening and two point perspective.