This isn’t part of any assignment here. in class I was told to do a perspective drawing of a castle. I have no clue how to do 1 point or 2 point perspective. With a few tips I just went with it. I used all 5 perspective tricks, what do you guys think? diminution: 4/5 convergence: 5/5 foreshortening: 4/5 Overlap: 4/5 Atmospheric Perspective: 2/5 (It’s barley used)

W3; Just Hands/Arms. All of these are 5 minutes. I felt like I messed up with the Spider-Man hand, but I re-did it and felt like I did it better

Fun fact about the Sun and the Moon: they only cover half a degree or 30 arc minutes of our vision. So if you take a punched piece of paper and hold it at an arms length the full Moon is going to fit right inside that little hole. (don't look directly into the Sun please)

Did some more studies.. This time of a James Gurney and a Kilian Eng masterpiece. James Gurney piece: Diminution: 4/5 Along with providing a scale for gauging the size relationship among humans and dinos in the foreground, he puts one in the background and subtly adds some flying ones in the distant sky to create depth. Also, the humans spread around the canvas diminishes with distance. Convergence: 1/5 Apart from some obvious convergence of buildings and foreshortened figures, this trick seems to be not used that much. Foreshortening: 3/5 Foreshortening is primarily used in the focal piece, the brachiosaurus( I guess). Apart from thst some boats and humans are foreshortened to create the environment. Overlapping: 4/5 I noticed many overlaps in my shape study, the building in the foreground overlaps the dino, and the humans in the foreground overlaps it, too which also establishes the magnanimity of the creature. Some smaller dinos overlap the building in the foreground, etc. Atmospheric perspective: 5/5 Atmospheric perspective is immensely used not only to create the depth but to create the value contrast in the focal point. Kilian Eng piece: Diminution: 5/5 Kilian establishes the size of the creature by placing a human on its back and then places the focal point in the midground. The diminution of this huge creature is evident as he fills the foreground with branches and trunks of trees. Convergence: 1/5 Apart from the basic 1 point convergence of the overall composition and on the scattered objects in the foreground, I can’t find it being used to create depth Foreshortening: 1/5 Some objects in the foreground are foreshortened to create not only depth, but variety. Overlap: 4/5 In the foreground, he uses overlap of a huge no of shapes to create depth and variety. The piece still feels so coherent as the value group in the foreground is close-knit, as seen in my value study. Atmospheric: 5/5 The value study shows how much of this trick is used to create depth. In my opinion, this is the main trick used in this piece.

Here is my attempt at analysing a few drawings. Im sorry for any bad english, its not my mothertounge and Im not used to writing longer texts in english 1 Kley, vergebene Liebesmüh Diminution: 1/5 only few objects all close to the camera Convergence:1/5 Foreshortening: 1/5 Overlap: 4/5 quite a lot of overlap, to show which part is in front of another Atmosphere: 1/5 Volume and depth is mostly shown by overlap, since there are very few objects, that are all relativly close to the camera. The rendering also helps to show the threedimensionality, it helps to show the directions of the forms, also many of the renderinglines are crosscontourlines. 2 Kley, Fabrik Diminution: 4/5 many of the same objects are repeated, and are beeing shown at different distances from the camera. Eg the „towers“, the chimneys, wagons etc Convergence: 4/5 There is quite a bit of convergence happening, most importantly with the „towers“ and the wagons and the „railroads“ all beeing parallel Foreshortening: 2/5 There is some of it since objects are seen at an angle, but since most objects arent close to the camera the effect of it arent crazy. Overlap: 4/5 There are many objects overlapping each other. Atmosphere: 5/5 Objects that are further are lighter, and more blue, the foreground is very red. Having analysed these two drawings by Kley Im actually impressed by how the first drawing which doesnt has deep space and mostly relys on overlaps and crossconturrendering is, in my opinion even more volumetric than the second image, which has deeper space and utilizes more of the perspectivetricks. 3 Floyd Gottfredson: Diminution: 2/5 Mickey and the tree are smaller than what they would be if they where closer to the camera, of course Mickey is also smaller in height than catnip, so him beeing further away enhances the effect of diminution. Convergence: 2/5 the way is clearly converging. Foreshortening: 2/5 Things like the streetsign or the faces of characters are seen from an angle, with the further away eye beeing shorter. Overlap: 2/5 there is some overlap, especially with the dogs, and their leg beeing in front of their head/ being in front of each other. Atmosphere: 1/5 The tree is drawn with light lines. 4 David Colman, Storyboard: Diminution: 1/5 There arent really any objects that are similar in size tha are repeated in the distance. Convergence: 5/5 I love the converging rain. Foreshortening: 2/5 Dracula is seen from below, looking up at him, so his legs are bigger than the rest of his body. Overlap: 2/5 Forground objects do overlap background objects a bit Atmosphere: 3/5 Objects on the foreground are generally darker, especially where they overlap 5 Kim Jung Gi: Diminution: 5/5 Many similar sized objects are repeated throughout the drawing, most notably many humans that are getting smaller as they are further away Convergence:4/5 There is alot of parallel lines that show obvious conversion, especially in the buildings but also in the vehicles. Foreshortening:2/5 Many objects are seen from an angle, but Foreshortening isnt the main factor in making this drawing 3D. Overlap: 5/5 The drawing is jamfull with people and other objects, so there are countless example of things overlapping each other. Atmosphere: 2/5 The persons in the very foreground seem to be a bit darker, and things further away are generally drawn with thinner lines.

This wasn’t part of the assignment but I took some notes!

1. A panel from a Dragon Ball manga Diminution: 2/5. Some of the debris are smaller father out. But overall the buildings get bigger the farther out you go. Convergence: 1/5, the buildings are altered for there to be no exact vanishing point. All lead to a certain direction but if all were perfectly squared, there will be a vanishing point. Foreshortening: 3/5, not any extreme angle but has some foreshortening. Overlap: 5/5, the overlapping of the buildings gives the illusion of what's farther an closer. Atmosphere: 4/5, the buildings aren't changing, but the ground is changing from darker to lighter, depending on the distance. 2. A John Martin painting. Diminution: 4/5, the castle, the trees in the background and the mountains cause Diminution. Convergence: 1/5, no vanishing points Foreshortening: 2/5 no extreme foreshortening Overlap: 5/5, the main illusion of depth is the overlapping of the mountains. Atmosphere: 5/5, The fog in the far distance mountains and sky give an illusion of depth. 3. Spiderman drawing. Diminution: 5/5, the buildings get small as they lead to a vanishing point. Convergence: 5/5, Same thing. Foreshortening: 5/5, the buildings seem to get change shape as it gets closer to the vanishing point. Overlap: 5/5, everything is overlapping. Atmosphere: 1/5, everything is pretty much the same value.

This really helped me to get the angles correct. I struggled to use my materials when we did the optical illusions assignment, because I never used them before! I felt like I did enough circles for today, the fourth will I will do tomorrow

W1, 4, 2 minute sketches. W2, 2, 5min sketches

W3 12 hands and feet, 5 Min sketches. Does this still count?