Unit blog assignment

What is perspective? 

Perspective is a type of drawing and an illusion. It is the illusion of depth in a picture/painting. Perspective does not physicaly exist in the real world, only in paintings. There are different types of perspective, there is 1-point perspective where all the lines that in the real world which would be horizontal follow one point. 2-point perspective is where all the lines that would be horizontal follow two points on the edge of the paper, each line depending on where it is. 3-point perspective is when all the lines that would be horizontal in the real world follow two points on the side of the paper and the lines that would be vertical follow one line on the top of the paper. The points, called vanishing points do not have to be on the paper, they could be outside the paper. Perspective drawings are good for making illusionary depth in drawings.

Analysing a perspective painting: The last supper

Vanishing point: The vanishing point is the point where all the red lines meet. All the lines that would be horizontal, follow the vanishing point.

Parallel lines: Parallel lines are lines that are exactly the same distance from eachother and will never cross if they would keep going forever. Some of the orange lines on the picture are parallel to eachother.

Horizonline: The horizon line is the horizontal line where the vanishing point is. On the picture it is drawn in green.

Horizon: The horizon is where land meets the sky, on this picture the horizon is the yellow line overlapping the horizonline.

Black square: When you are drawing a room in perspective, the square decides how long the room would be. The smaller the square, the longer the room. The vanishing point is inside the square.