Review of the Drawing What You See Module

Learning to draw can be achieved through a series of exercise that when practiced lead to you perceiving like an artist and then having the ability to recreate that on paper to communicate with others. The first exercise you learned taught your hand and eye to coordinate together and are called contour drawings. The second exercise taught you how to use perspective to turn shapes into forms and the final series of drills show how to create value, set up a still life, create proper lighting and draw in the Imitationalism aesthetic viewpoint.

Example of a HorizonLine and orthagonal lines

Perspective is a way to make a drawing look three-dimensional on a two-dimensional plane and can be either atmospheric or linear. Perspective was discovered as a drawing technique by artist Filippo Brunelleschi in 1413. Linear perspective requires both a horizon line and a vanishing point.

Atmospheric perspective is a type of perspective that uses other artistic tricks to fool the eye into thinking the drawn image is three-dimensional. Atmospheric perspective uses a general foreground, background and middle ground on a picture plane to make things appear three-dimensional.

Review what you have learned by completing the activity below.

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