This unit of work is all about how to create illusions of perspective to make more detailed and convincing illustrations.
I first start this body of work off with the basics, looking at how the horizon line affects the side of a cube. As you can see, if you line up the edges of the cube to a singular point on the horizon line and shade correctly, it looks rather convincing.

Next I decided to make a study of this example shown in my lecture. I wasn't too keen however on having plain cubes and people so I decided to change my drawing up a little.
​I decided to make the cubes plant pots with strange green shrubbery and purple "cat gnomes" to guard them.
​I like how unusual it turned out.

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I am very pleased with how this illustration turned out. I used mixed media to make it look much more textured and i feel the colours break it up nicely. I was told by my peers that this drawing reminded them of the famous artist ​salvador dali so I decided to look at his work to inspire mine further.

As you can see here, his work is from the surrealist movement and looks rather unusual also. He uses perspective to make things look 3D as i've been doing.
His work however interests me more as it looks as though things are melting and moulding over the 3d shapes.
I like the thought of using soft lines when I get around to colouring in my illustrations.

This is called using 'fences' to create perspective. Essentially you need to draw your perspective lines coming from the vanishing point on the horizon and draw two lines. You cross a line from the top point, through the middle down to the bottom line and that's how you work out distance between objects..
I did the example drawing of this with boxes and trees then decided to go one step further using my, now rather creepy, cat gnomes. I like how it turned out as I haven't explored drawing like this before.

I was beginning to wrap my head around two point perspective at this point but I was definitely struggling with how to apply everything I had learnt into making a scene.
I decided to look at Gwen Whites book 'pictorial perspective' and this page in particular seemed to make everything click in my head. Using this drawing as inspiration I drew a little girls bedroom from my imagination and then from that a drawing of my cat sat in the living room. I used reference for this one too.
I figured out that drawing out a grid for the floor first was the easiest method of starting the drawing out. From there I can build the scene.

life drawing.