Drawing and Understanding

Week One - Perspective Understanding 

For this weeks set of activities, the focus was on understanding varying perspectives from different points, with the focus mainly being on one and two point perspective. For the most part, drawing out simple shapes like cubes and cylinders was something I was able to understand, along with the likes of grids and fences after a couple of attempts.

However, I did find the more complex things more difficult to understand, such as that of drawing without the guidelines and imagining them on the page without actually using a ruler to measure them out. It is for this reason, I stuck around the basics for a while, wrapping my head around fences and measuring distance between buildings. Eventually however, I did begin to understand things more, growing more confident and beginning to play around with light sources on forms such as cubes and cylinders. 

It was when I tried to apply my understanding of perspective on basic shapes to a piece of work that it became a little confusing, still not used to working in a way that, to myself, didn't look correct. It was for this reason that moving into the second week of the tasks that I did try to apply my understanding to a setting as opposed to just basic shapes.

Week Two - Applying Understanding 

Following week one, I focused on applying what I had learnt the week prior in regards to one and two point perspective, whilst too understanding more about three point perspective. However simple the drawings I made, they were more complex than basic cubes and so, did help me begin to understand how to apply perspective to drawings that weren't as simple as a cube lit up by a light source. 

In addition to playing around with perspective, I also tried to do some quick figure drawings, focusing on faces as that was what I found most difficult. I also struggled a little with the lighting of the forms as usually I draw very lightly. However, I understand more about proportions of the face, and will be able to use that knowledge into my own work to try and better my art. 

When it came to messing around with perspective, using a digital medium helped significantly, as I was able to draw on the guidelines and take them off when I needed to. Although the outcomes were simple, it helped with my understanding of both one and two point perspective, especially when the way objects sit still doesn't look completely correct due to not being used to this way of working, I was able to double check by re-adding the guidelines in to find vanishing points and parallel lines.

All in all, although I did struggle with these two weeks of tasks, I now know more than I did about perspective, and understand it enough to begin to apply it to my own work and stray away from using simple objects and begin to make actual pieces of work with the techniques incorporated. Going forwards, I intend to continue to experiment and begin to make things that are more complex, and do use more than just one or two point perspective. 

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