Intro to Perspective

Intro to Perspective Drawing

access to Rex Vicat Cole's book on perspective here

recommended for purchase:

Perspective: A guide for Artists, Architects, and Designers, by Gwen White

In class:

Intro to the terms of linear perspective.
Demonstration and exercise: perspective diagram and cubes in one point perspective.
Explanation of homework. Submit your drawings to the slide show before class next week. (you have received a link to the slideshow)
Demonstration on submitting drawings to the slide show. PLEASE be sure to upload a well lit and cropped photo of your drawings each week so that the image is visible and NOT uploaded as an attachment. It is necessary for me to see your work so that I can provide feedback.

Independent work:

Watch the video demonstrations on setting up the perspective diagram and drawing cubes.

COMPASS

If you don't have a compass, please get one at your earliest convenience. You will need it to set up the cone of vision. I'll show you how to get by without one in class today.

Assignment:

Complete 9 prisms in perspective as demonstrated (three below the horizon line; three overlapping the horizon line; three above the horizon line. VIDEO DEMONSTRATIONS can be found on the slide show.

Book recommendations:

There are countless books on perspective drawing- some more useful than others. My favorite is Gwen White's "Perspective: A Guide for Artists, Architects, and Designers." You are not expected to buy it for this course, but may find it useful.

Intro to Perspective Drawing

Ibn al-Haytham , aka Alhazen, (b. 965-d. 1040)

Al-Haytham was a mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of present day Iraq during the Islamic Golden Age. He studied the writings of Euclid and Ptolemy. His book on optics and visual perception was translated into Latin in the 12th century, and then into other European languages. It influenced Western physicists like Isaac Newton, Johannes Kapler, and Galileo Galilei hundreds of years after its publication. His explanations on visual perceptive laid the foundation for the development of linear perspective in Europe.

Fillipo Brunelleschi

Brunelleschi was the Italian artist, architect, mathematician, and engineer credited with being the among the first to demonstrate how linear perspective works.

Ugolino da Siena

Leonardo da Vinci

linear perspective is a method of conveying the appearance and relative size of objects.

In the late 15th century, several treatises on linear perspective were written and the knowledge spread across Europe, influencing visual artists across the continent.

Artists used the methods laid out in these writings to place figures along the ground in perspective and include elaborate and accurate architectural details in their paintings.

The two most famous were written by Leon Battista Alberti and Piero della Francesca.

Albrecht Durer wrote a later book on perspective.