People

This time we were looking at the perspective of people. We were shown this sheet that helps explain how to draw people from off angles and not to make them look like they have miniature or non existent limbs.

I am not very good at drawing people, so I was dreading this task. But actually I started to become at ease with drawing people from angles. We started in a small group by looking up or down at each other and drawing what we could see of that person.

I found it much easier to draw looking down on people, rather than looking up. Im not sure why, but the drawings above of the two girls sat down I think are portrayed better for the angles they're in. Ive struggled to get the people I'm looking up at, to look like they're above. So i decided to draw Sophie here, which I'm looking down on. This time she's posing where I can't see her left leg or arm. This was more challenging as it could of looked really strange, flat and wonky. I think I've managed to get it right though, and actually by drawing her stood like this I feel its only enhanced and exaggerated that I was looking at her from above. 

We were then shown how to exaggerate certain points of the image to really show the perspective off. So with Tim standing on a table above me, I wanted to exaggerate the fact I was looking up by making his shoes and the bottoms of the trousers larger, as that was the thing closest to me.

                                                                                                                                                                                         This was my attempt at exaggerating the proportions. And I think that even though it is more obvious he's higher up than me in this image than some of the others, I think more exaggeration is needed to make it more effective. 

Ellipses

This time we were drawing Ellipses, which I was dreading seeing as I found rectangles in perspective hard enough. We started off by drawing various objects in the studio, trying to get the angle and look of the ellipses right.

This took me a while to get in to. But once Jen demonstrated to me that although the ellipses at the mouth of the mug looks like it has a tight curve around it, you still have to draw it with a smooth gentle curve so the viewer can see it more clearly as a mug, I found this exercise a little easier. Again, I never knew about the tweaking of what you see so that you can draw what is actually there.

After we had practiced on these, we had to go out and look at the ellipses in cars. This was a struggle with the various angles of the car wheels, and the fact these wheels had depth to them that had to be portrayed right to give the impression of a correct car wheel.

I started off by drawing squares with a cross through around where the wheels should be, I found this very helpful with getting the size and even angle correct. I would then turn these squares into cubes to see how deep the wheels should be. This made the beginning process a lot easier to visualise and to see how I had gone wrong. And so I practiced this method on a few cars.

Rectangles

In this workshop, we were working on drawing rectangles from different angles and views. This is something I've always known I'm not that good at, and after not doing it for a while I had forgotten how difficult it is as well. Perspective overall, is something that I know I need to improve on, and so starting with something like this was the perfect start for me.

I started by drawing mainly smaller items, such as these boxes and small drawers that were around my desk at the time. I thought this would be an easier place to start, but proved to be just as difficult. I really struggled with the perspective of all of my drawings, and so went over them again and again until you could clearly see the true shape of the object.









I was then showed, that sometimes you need to lie about what you see, for the truth to be shown. And this made it a little easier to start being confident with my sketches so that the shape of the images was being shown quicker and more easily.