AIDS TO BETTER DRAWING

You get yourself best in what you practice. You desire, determination and intelligence will always helps in improving your skill dot  When you see your work is going wrong, try to put it correct. Obviously you will get confidence when you correct the mistakes identified by your own. This will help in improving the other areas of work dot  If it is possible, try to watch the working methodology of other artists. Study his or her working techniques dot  Don’t throw your work away. Preserve them. After a period of time compare your latest work with your previous work, am sure you will feel a big difference

 
 

Eye level and Perspectives:

Eye level can be categorized in to three levels. (1) Eye Level, (2) Above eye level, (3) Below eye level.

Here the figure (A) represents the 3types of eye levels and the figure (B) Represents how the object in figure (A) will look like in each levels. For achieving a perfect perspective of an object a clear knowledge of eye level concept is must. The Bottom of the object will be visible when it is in the above eye level and the top level of the object will be visible when it is in the below eye level. When the object is in eye level only the side portion (the side which is perpendicular to the eye) of the object will be visible.

Eye Level

Vanishing point method:

We have three vanishing point methods, namely (1) One point view , (2) Two point view, (3) Three point view.

One point view:

One point view

If we draw lines from the edge of the object , they will meet in a single point and the point is called as VANISHING POINT. The above example will help to understand the single point view or one point view. Here the edges of the cube are joining in a single point.

Different views of one point view


The next figure represents the different views of one point method. In this tutorial I have given only few views. Literally there are n number of views can be obtained. It all depends upon the angle of the object.

Two point view:


Two point view

In two point view if we draw lines along the edges they will meet in two different points. See the above example.

Different views of two point view

The second figure represents the different views of two point view method.

Three point view:

Three point view

The lines from the edges will meet in three different points.

Different views of three point view


The above figure represents the different views of three point view method.

 

Added on: 25th Mar 2009
Filled under: Drawing Perspectives, Eye View.