Drawing Studio - Basic Perspective

Basic Perspective

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

This course is another one of Robert’s foundational courses, a course in which he instructs about the horizon line, vanishing points, and perspective lines and how they are used in creating one and two-point perspective. These fundamental concepts are essential to understand to help you create a proper sense of depth in your drawings and paintings. To be able to identify your horizon line will help you to determine if you are looking at something directly from above or from below, and this will help you keep from creating improper perspective.

After a short introduction, Robert will guide you through creating a cube at the mid-level view, high-level view, and worm-eye view by using one-point perspective. He will also do the same exercises with the use of two-point perspective. The last exercise will combine all of the concepts, and we will create an urban street scene solely using two-point perspective; no reference will be used.

The concept of perspective is something you will use consistently in your drawings and paintings, it may not be as dramatic as the urban street scene that we will draw, but it is a skill that we constantly use when drawing and painting.

Materials for this course

To have the best experience possible, Robert highly recommends purchasing the same materials on the list as those are the materials he uses in his instruction.

Required Items (Click on the items below to add them to your Blick Art Materials Cart)

• Sketch pad (Strathmore 300 Series, 11 x 14 spiral-bound)
• HB pencil (Faber-Castell 9000 Pencil - Graphite, HB)
• Rub eraser (Tombow Mono Smart Eraser)Ruler (12" Stainless Steel)
• Drawing Triangle (Blick Triangle-8", 30-60 Degree

• Draftsman duster (Westcott Wooden Dusting Brush)
• Mechanical Eraser (General’s Factis Mechanical Eraser)