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Lesson 11: Bonus Challenge
After that “towering success” (pun fully intended), let’s reverse the exercise to practice foreshortened circles, size, placement, shading, shadow, and thickness. Let’s draw a field of holes. Because these foreshortened circles are on “top” of the ground, the thickness of these holes will be at the top of the foreshortened circle. This is a fun challenge. Enjoy!
Student examples
Look at how these students stretched their imagination and drawing skill.
LESSON 12
CONSTRUCTING WITH CUBES
L et’s recap where we are in this thirty-day journey. You’ve mastered drawing spheres, multiple spheres, and stacked spheres all with blended shading. You have learned how to draw the cube, cube variations, multiple layered-cube buildings, and towers of tables and, most importantly, how to apply the drawing compass directions: northwest, southwest, northeast, and southeast. You will now use these skills to draw more real-world objects. In this chapter, you’ll start by drawing a house; then you’ll draw a mailbox.
1. Draw a cube very, very lightly.
2. Draw a guide dot in the middle of the bottom line of the cube, on the right side.
3. Draw a very light vertical line up from this guide dot. This will be our guide to creating the roof of the house.
4. Connect the front slopes of the roof. Notice how the near slope is longer than the far side. This is a perfect example of how size and placement create depth. The near part of the roof is longer to make it appear larger and to create the illusion that it is closer to your eye.
5. Using the lines you have already drawn as a guide, draw the top of the roof, being very careful not to angle this line too high (example 5b below). This is a problem many students initially have with this lesson. To avoid this, consciously and specifically refer back to your first lines drawn in direction northwest.
6. Draw the far side of the roof by matching the slant of the front edge. When I draw houses, I have found that slanting the far edge of the roof a little less than the near edge helps the illusion.
This is just a peek at the visual illusion of two-point perspective. We’ll do more with the law of perspective in later chapters. I just wanted to whet your appetite for new, challenging drawing lessons!
Look at how fascinating it is to see the house lined up with drawing compass directions NW and NE and to see how they merge into a disappearing vanishing point on either side of the object. In fact, you have already been effectively using this advanced two-point-perspective science in your three-dimensional drawings without even knowing it!
Now, take a moment to think about this: You have already been effectively using this advanced two-point-perspective science in your three-dimensional drawings without even knowing it ! Surprise, surprise!
A good analogy to this idea is that I can type on my laptop, yet not have a clue as to the mechanics of how a computer actually works. You can safely drive a car without understanding how the engine works. Similarly, you can (and have!) successfully learned how to draw fundamental shapes without knowing the science behind it. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t learn the science of vanishing-point-perspective drawing, because you should, and you will in later chapters. But what I am saying is that too often, in too many classrooms and in too many how-to-draw books, the immediate introduction of excessive, tedious drawing information can severely hinder or entirely block students from experiencing the initial fun of learning how to draw the fundamentals. When information-overload anxiety hits beginning students, they naturally get frustrated. They experience failure and accept a completely false assumption that they are void of talent and therefore do not have the ability to learn how to draw. The truth is that learning how to draw has nothing to do with talent. You have experienced this
Lesson 11: Bonus Challenge
After that “towering success” (pun fully intended), let’s reverse the exercise to practice foreshortened circles, size, placement, shading, shadow, and thickness. Let’s draw a field of holes. Because these foreshortened circles are on “top” of the ground, the thickness of these holes will be at the top of the foreshortened circle. This is a fun challenge. Enjoy!
Student examples
Look at how these students stretched their imagination and drawing skill.
LESSON 12
CONSTRUCTING WITH CUBES
L et’s recap where we are in this thirty-day journey. You’ve mastered drawing spheres, multiple spheres, and stacked spheres all with blended shading. You have learned how to draw the cube, cube variations, multiple layered-cube buildings, and towers of tables and, most importantly, how to apply the drawing compass directions: northwest, southwest, northeast, and southeast. You will now use these skills to draw more real-world objects. In this chapter, you’ll start by drawing a house; then you’ll draw a mailbox.
1. Draw a cube very, very lightly.
2. Draw a guide dot in the middle of the bottom line of the cube, on the right side.
3. Draw a very light vertical line up from this guide dot. This will be our guide to creating the roof of the house.
4. Connect the front slopes of the roof. Notice how the near slope is longer than the far side. This is a perfect example of how size and placement create depth. The near part of the roof is longer to make it appear larger and to create the illusion that it is closer to your eye.
5. Using the lines you have already drawn as a guide, draw the top of the roof, being very careful not to angle this line too high (example 5b below). This is a problem many students initially have with this lesson. To avoid this, consciously and specifically refer back to your first lines drawn in direction northwest.
6. Draw the far side of the roof by matching the slant of the front edge. When I draw houses, I have found that slanting the far edge of the roof a little less than the near edge helps the illusion.
This is just a peek at the visual illusion of two-point perspective. We’ll do more with the law of perspective in later chapters. I just wanted to whet your appetite for new, challenging drawing lessons!
Look at how fascinating it is to see the house lined up with drawing compass directions NW and NE and to see how they merge into a disappearing vanishing point on either side of the object. In fact, you have already been effectively using this advanced two-point-perspective science in your three-dimensional drawings without even knowing it!
Now, take a moment to think about this: You have already been effectively using this advanced two-point-perspective science in your three-dimensional drawings without even knowing it ! Surprise, surprise!
A good analogy to this idea is that I can type on my laptop, yet not have a clue as to the mechanics of how a computer actually works. You can safely drive a car without understanding how the engine works. Similarly, you can (and have!) successfully learned how to draw fundamental shapes without knowing the science behind it. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t learn the science of vanishing-point-perspective drawing, because you should, and you will in later chapters. But what I am saying is that too often, in too many classrooms and in too many how-to-draw books, the immediate introduction of excessive, tedious drawing information can severely hinder or entirely block students from experiencing the initial fun of learning how to draw the fundamentals. When information-overload anxiety hits beginning students, they naturally get frustrated. They experience failure and accept a completely false assumption that they are void of talent and therefore do not have the ability to learn how to draw. The truth is that learning how to draw has nothing to do with talent. You have experienced this
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