Raining again so I had a go at this exercise at art group, piling up boxes and tins from my art bag. Slightly discouraged when other members of the group went off into the mutters when they asked me what I was doing this week and I said a perspective exercise….
Attempt 1 – I wasn’t quite sure where I was going with this exercise at first, and it was only when I drew the eyeline in at the end that I could see where I had been accurate and where I was wildly out. I’d known the drawing wasn’t correct, but couldn’t see why. On the plus side…..when I sent my first assignment to my tutor, she drew lines like this all over it (a copy of it, I hasten to add!) so that I could see that my perspective had been very wide of the mark, and in several cases the continuations of my parallel lines were actually diverging, not converging – but at least I have managed to get them converging here!
Attempt 2 – I tried from the start to be more rigorous about the relationship of length versus width in the bottom box, and this led to a more successful drawing, although the second box up is significantly wrong. I had established the eye-line in my head from the start (couldn’t quite draw it on as it was a couple of cm above the top of the page), so as I was drawing I was tweaking the angles based on the rough relative trajectory of paired parallel lines, which generally worked well except right at the end for that second box, where tweaking in one direction threw the converging of the parallel lines at right angles way out…which must mean that the right angle at the front of the picture, which I drew first and didn’t measure and check, is incorrect. Amazing how just one wrong angle can come back to haunt you…just as well I’m not an architect.
Moving forwards, though, I can see that this is a useful check to have in the arsenal, and will try to continue to use it.
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