So for the last little while we've been doing fundamental stuff. wheeee. But even if it's not the most fun thing in the world to draw cubes floating around in space it will make all the difference when I'm working professionally. Right now we are working with linear perspective, which is to create the illusion of three dimensional space on a two dimensional surface. It's all very mathematical. (and here I thought I was getting out of math by going into art). But it's interesting too. We started with isometric perspective, which is where all of the sides of an object are the same length (think Escher) It doesn't exist in the real world, but it is a good start to working in perspective.
Right now we are working with one point perspective. That is where everything in the image recedes to a single point on the horizon line. The horizon is your eye level, so even if you can't see the literal horizon (where earth meets sky) the image still has a horizon line. Cool stuff. I've got some sketches that illustrate that a bit. Hopefully over the weekend I'll have some time to start painting again...we'll see. I hope everyone is having a great week!!
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