This semester I learned about horizon lines and vanishing points. These aspects of drawing significantly improved my drawing skill! A horizon line is a line horizontal at the vanishing point or points and this line usually is where the sky meets up with the land in the background of the picture. A vanishing point is the point or points where all lines that will point toward. For example, if
you are drawing a picture of a table right in front of you and the vanishing point is in the background then the sides of the table will point toward to the vanishing point. You can have multiple vanishing points as well. We worked on two point perspective which has two vanishing points and three point perspective which, you guessed it, has three vanishing points. When multiple vanishing points exist you must think logically and figure out which lines will point toward each vanishing point. For three point perspective, there are two vanishing points like normal and one vanishing point that is either above the horizon line or below the horizon line. All vertical lines will point towards this point and all horizontal lines will point toward the other two. By doing this technique I was able to hone my drawing ability. All pictures from: http://www.watercolorpainting.com/perspective_1_2_3_point.htm
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December 2013
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