Toolkit - Perspective, Composition, Rule of Thirds

In one of Jordan's earlier classes we worked on perspective and composition. I wasn't well for the class but I've caught up looking at other people's blogs and looking at the material from the lesson! This blog is about a month late but I'm finally trying to prioritise getting my backlog of work all uploaded and finished, so expect a lot of previous stuff in the next few days!

At first I worked on perspective. I've already done the perspective exercises traditionally, but I've also completed some digital ones too. Here's what I've done to practice:

I've also researched on making a good composition which involves the rule of thirds. The teaching is that by drawing a 3x3 grid on your page you can use the lines as a guide to create a 'good' composition. The horizon is meant to sit on the lower horizontal line, and points of interest are meant to fall on any of the lines (or at least close to where the lines are, or where they intersect). I've included a photograph as an example below.

Invisible Cities - Thumbnails 35-58

Here are some more thumbnails for the Invisible Cities project. I've tried different ways of creating them here, as advised by Jordan in his class. I have used the lasso tool, the brush and collage to make a different variety of designs.

I have also settled on Fedora as my city, so I have created a few more drawings of how I think the city could look:

Perspective

Hello!

Today I started work on my Invisible Cities project by doing some perspective drawing practice. The last time I tackled perspective was during art GCSE and I remember it being a very stressful and confusing subject. However, after going through some online tutorials I feel a lot more confident. Because I could go over the tutorials at my own pace, I didn't have any trouble learning about 1-point perspective, and then moving on to 2-point and 3-point. I'm pleased it was an easy exercise as perspective has always been something daunting to me but I've now realised it wasn't much to worry about at all. Here are my three sketchbook pages, showing 1,2 and 3 point perspective respectively. I prefer to use red (and blue) pencil in my sketchbook so I hope everybody can see it ok!

Now that I've completed this task, I'd like to move on to writing the 'Who's Who?' about my selected concept artist. I've already chosen who, it's just a matter of writing about them! Stay on the lookout for that as it'll be up in the next few days.