There and Back Again

The following images show my journey from the Francis Close Hall campus to Montpellier gardens. The line represents the length and changing angles of the route. I chose to visually record the foliage from one end of the route to another, to see how the plantlife and trees change throughout.

Next, I put together the route map in its correct form - linking the pages up while maintaining the decorative foliage illustrations captured throughout the respective areas of the journey.

Go Figure!

More location drawing, this time focusing on drawing the figure. As I continued to record the figure at different angles, I began to understand how perspective affects figures in the environment.

 Glass balconies made for an excellent reference of the whole body, when studying it from below.

 I personally found drawing the figure from above to be more attainable, and could display the proper foreshortening of limbs.

Total Ellipse of the Art

On the topic of shapes, I visually researched drawing ellipses from different angles and distances. I also recorded a few elliptical objects through location drawing - the results of this research are below.

As you can see, I experimented with drawing the objects inside a rectangular guideline - ensuring the dimensions were proper.

Drawing on location delivered a few elliptical objects that interested me. For example, the 'modern art' structure below (located at Centrum Retail Park) offered a variety of angles of rings.

Historical perspective

Visiting the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, I made examples of a couple of angles of perspective that interested me while I was there.

The Cornered Gallery

This area not only provided a challenging off-center perspective, but also presented difficulties with how to portray a noticeably large space in the ceiling design.

The Weeping Angel

An unfinished study looking into the perspective of a statue in front of a circular recessed portion of marble.

If the stairs could talk...

A lot of angles of perspective needed to be accounted for here, with the added shading providing sufficient depth and detail.

The Laws of Perspective

I researched and visually recorded the known laws of perspective. My examples are given below.

References:

1) https://practicalpages.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/seven-laws-of-perspective.pdf (Accessed October 2015).

Putting plans into perspective

The above are the plans for my authorial practice over the year, including a to-do list and (bottom right) an abridged version.


The first exercise in perspective is shown below, with basic rectangular objects at differing angles.