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Further Aspects of Perspective
W E ARE ACCUSTOMED TO SEEING our e n v i r o n m e n t from a y o u might employ t h r e e - p o i n t perspective ( s h o w n
relatively constant point of view. From our normal eye level, opposite top). Further aspects of three-point perspective
verticals appear perpendicular to the ground, and this is are also illustrated opposite, showing you how to draw
how we have drawn them so far (see pp. 76-79). Only when curved surfaces and a tiled floor. It is important to realize
our eye level is very high and we look down, or low and we that you can have as many vanishing points as you wish,
look up, do verticals appear inclined. Think of standing at located anywhere inside or outside the pictorial space.
the top of a skyscraper and imagine how its parallel sides T h e y d o n o t have to relate to each other, o r to the
would appear to converge below you. To draw such a view horizon. This is demonstrated immediately below.
APPLICATION
Copy these drawings to see and feel
how they work before inventing your own
versions. Search for the application of these
perspectives among works by other artists
in this book and in galleries. Copying what
you see in the work of others will help
you to understand what they have done.
Free vanishing points
Vanishing points are commonly found on
horizon—our eye level.That is where we e
to find them, but they are not confined to this
level. Potentially, they can be placed anywhere
inspaceto describe the perspective of flyi
c tilted objects. The boxes drawn here are seen
partly or entirely disassociated from a horizon
line drawn across the bottom of the image.
Elaborations
On paper we can enjoy the freedom of
fantastic structural invention without limitations
of solid materials or gravity. Here, I have
elaborated on the simple boxes above.
These elaborations could continue indefinitely
across a sheet of paper in pursuit of complex
and intricate ideas. They could be drawn on
any scale from miniature to monumental.
