Traditional Drawing (Week two - David Hyde)

 Today we focused on one and two point perspective.

My first piece of work had very heavy line weighting and the perspective in some places was very off. However, when it came to my second drawing, I decided to do a measuring method in order to cross reference the perspective. Where I took two pencils and put them along the lines of my shapes, that way if they pointed to one another, the perspective was correct, whereas, if they were parallel, they would never touch, which is incorrect.

The thing I found most difficult during this session was line weighting and shadowing correct areas.

Because the shapes were all white, the shapes at the back were often inappropriately shadowed. Which meant there was a line defining the outline of a shape, rather than the shadow of a background object defining it. In the future I will make sure to observe lighting and put heavy lines where necessary and then come back to lit are
as.

Image one (wrong perspective)

Image two (better perspective and shading)