Drawing with perspective, part 1: Intro to parallel projection

[astridv]

Lots of interest in perspective construction, so, diving right in!

Comments

[frith_in_thorns]

Really interesting! :D I'm a terrible artist but I find the technical side of it fascinating to learn about :)

[tridget]

That is very useful. I am going to share this with a relative who is working on this right now for an arts credit at school.

[runpunkrun]

This is interesting stuff! It even mostly makes sense to me, and I can't draw realistic perspective to save anyone's life.

[astridv]

Ah, that's good, I was hoping it makes sense but I wasn't sure. :)

[calcitrix]

Very nice! I never learned any technical terms even in classes; we got assignments that sort of taught us these things without much explanation as to why they worked.

[sholio]

This is really interesting so far! Actually, I had never thought of parallel projection (isometric projection is the term I know it by) as a thing all unto itself; my university-level drawing classes took us straight to perspective with vanishing points, and skipped over this entirely. I think it's actually useful for me to think of it as a separate kind of perspective that should be learned all on its own, as opposed to what happens to my drawings when I screw up my vanishing points. *g*

[astridv]

That's why I thought I'd start with this. I mean, the stuff above is super-simple of course, but once you get complex shapes (and things like circles - many people I know seem to hate ellipses with a passion) it can get kind of tricky and I find it easier if you can just concentrate on the object at first, without worrying about vanishing points and horizon lines. I'm sure that's why our teacher did these 'fake' perspectives first.

[astridv]

Ha, and remember how I told you about the material from that art class, and how I can't find it anywhere? Yesterday I went climbing with a friend and casually mentioning this post... and it turns out he has them. I don't even remember giving them to him. I cleaned up my entire room looking for those things! (which, okay, maybe not such a bad thing *g*) Anyway, I'll get them tomorrow which is great, they should come in handy for the next post.