09/09/2015 - Perspective

Week 01

Computer Arts Practice

This blog is for my Computer Arts Practice module for year 3 computer arts at Abertay University.

This is a two term module, in the first term, we are undertaking different activities to assess our skill level. In this first post I will be evaluating a perspective drawing I did as part of the first practical. I had roughly an hour and a half to complete this drawing after I had found a location.

Evaluation:

When it comes to my time management for this drawing, I feel I did not use the time as productively as I could have. I finished my piece with at least half an hour to spare and I was unsure as to what else I could do to it. I felt my observation of the corridor was good though and I could see what I needed to do but it was the translation from the eyes to the hand that is where things broke down. I am reasonably happy with my line work for this piece, everything is clear and it does not look too cluttered.

My thoughts on the overall thought of perspective and my finished piece is that I found it quite frustrating at times because the measuring technique with a pencil can sometimes be off and distances are all too important in perspective. The only reason my piece looks somewhat convincing is because I had to freehand a couple of angles because my measuring was ineffective. Sometimes my angle I got from the pencil did not match up on the drawing and that is where I had to alter things to make it work. One limiting factor for me was my measuring, my pencil was shaking and I found it extremely difficult to get accurate guide lines. In future I will definitely use string as I have past experiences using and it has been effective for me in the past. I believe my strengths in perspective is being able to see the perspective and know what I’m drawing, but, my weakness is maybe finding the vanishing point and this is very detrimental to my strength. Once I find the vanishing point accurately, I believe the rest of the drawing will come naturally to me as I get the process that I have to go through but everything goes off the scale and perspective with little mistakes . After feedback from the tutor, I was told that I maybe should have picked two point perspectives and that by choosing one point from the angle I decided to draw, just made things a lot more difficult. Two point perspective never really occurred to me when I started the drawing,not from lack of knowledge but more lack of practice. Next time I do a perspective I will definitely consider all my options.

From today's practical class I will definitely work on my perspective, one point and two, in the future. Perspective for me is crucial for environment art/concepts and modelling, but, I am more interested in the narrative side of things so I feel it is not an essential skill for me to have, but, putting that aside, I will still practice perspective drawings in the future as it is not like the skill would be detrimental to my working practice.