In the last few classes, we've learned how to draw perspective. By using a horizontal line, vanishing point, shading, and drawing squares that we later turned into boxes, we created an image that gave us a 3D effect. At first, we drew a square and then connected the corner's of the square to the vanishing point. Then, we drew other squares behind the first one in the boundaries and then we turned them into cubes. Then, we shaded the appropriate areas and erased all unnecessary lines to make our image look real. Because we learned these steps first, we were then able to go ahead and make a more complex 3D drawing today. After we followed the steps Mrs. Story drew out for us on the board visually, we then started drawing our own image of a road, telephone poles, a fence, a truck, and even space crafts. We learned some new, interesting techniques to help us draw our 3D images just right. For example, when we drew the telephone poles, we at first started with one telephone pole and then drew it's top and bottom points to the vanishing point in the center of the page. Then, we drew another telephone pole in those boundaries and drew an angle from the top of the first telephone pole to the bottom of the second telephone pole. We then took our straight edge tool and took that angle we just drew and we drew it from the top of the second telephone pole to the bottom of the soon to be third telephone pole. After we drew that angle, we then added the third telephone pole and repeated those steps until we had a nice view of telephone poles all lined up in perspective. We followed those same steps for both the fence and the space crafts. I still think it is cool how much a little line can make such a difference in the drawing. By just adding on a few extra lines from the vanishing point to an object creates a very realistic effect that I had not known how to create before. We didn't have enough time in class today to finish the drawing, so I hope to finish it tomorrow and then put it on this blog.
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