David Phan
Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be by Kathryn Temple
In order to be able to draw, you'll need to know where you're looking from, or your perspective. In Kathryn Temple's book, Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be, Temple talks about different perspectives and their purposes. The one I'd like to highlight here is landscape perspectives. Temples delves into the process by stating, "I used these tricks of what's called atmospheric perspective to create the illusion of open space: Things get fuzzier the farther away they are; Things tend to appear lighter in value the farther away they are; Things appear to get smaller the farther away they are; Things appear closer together the farther away they are" (Temple 74). These four rules of landscape drawing allow the piece to show where everything is exactly, and allows you to judge the distance between each object in your drawing.
In my drawing, I've decided not to use a picture this time. Instead, I'll use what I know of my own surroundings (living in Washington means there's plenty of trees to look at!) and Temple's advice on landscape drawing to create an image of a meadow with a forest and mountain backdrop. I decided to contrast the image with a wild fire as well to make it more interesting. Here, you'll see I used the landscape techniques by blurring the background, defining the foreground, and shrinking the backdrop. I also used the shadowing and realism techniques from before to give it a final touch.
Do the landscape techniques really seem to allow you to judge different distances in the drawings? How do you think the blending of shadowing and landscape techniques helps give the drawing better depth?
Works Cited
Temple, Kathryn. Drawing: the Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be. Sterling Children's Book, 2014.
First off, your drawing is awesome, and I think your post was well written and engaging. And to answer your question at the end of your post, yes, the shadowing really gives your work depth and the bending gave your image a more panoramic effect. Keep up the good work. Why do you think atmospheric perspective creates the illusion of open space?
ReplyDeleteThank you Thor! I think the atmospheric perspective creates the illusion of open space by replicating the patterns that are shown in real life, then translating it onto the paper.
ReplyDeleteGreat job on the drawing! when drawing landscapes, the projection of sight from the viewer's perspective creates a cone of view. this cone creates slight distortion on the sides and makes slightly
ReplyDeletecurved lines up down left and right if you were to visualize a grid. This can be logically represented with a five-point perspective grid that is very large compared to the drawing space. I recommend looking in to this to develop a better understanding of drawing realistically and when drawing it can create almost perfect imagery, also check out my post on four point perspective, which is the step before 5 point, which adds the final layer of depth
I like the texture of the trees and the detail in the grass. The perspective down the path is very good. The mountains shading gives a nice effect of where the sun hits.
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