Week 2 - Perspective

This drawing is a two point perspective drawing of the Chesham building at the University of Bradford. At the beginning the horizon line was drawn because it is an implied line which showed the height of my eye when drawing the building. Another part of a two point perspective drawing is that it has vanishing points on the horizon line where parallel lines meet. The edge of the building closest to me was drawn first to help give a sense of where the vanishing points would go and because this part is being foreshortened at the angle it is being looked at by me. There is a good use of foreshortening as the size of the building decreases as the distance increases due to the angle of the viewer and it helps give the drawing a sense of three dimensional space on a 2D plane.

Using a pencil, the distance and the angles of the orthogonal lines were worked out. These then joined at the vanishing points to help to help map out the basic shape of the building. The orthogonal lines were drawn several times because some of them were not accurate enough. Once the lines were drawn the detail on the building could be drawn such as the windows and walls. This drawing is different to a one point perspective drawing as a two point perspective drawing has two vanishing points where as a single point on has one. An example of single point perspective is train tracks which meet at one point on the horizon line. This drawing has two vanishing points but one of them is off the page because the front of the building was quite long and could not fit on it. The total time taken to complete this drawing was 1 hour 10 minutes.