Week 5

I spent more time reading Scott Robinson's 'How to draw' book. The next section focused on multiplying and mirroring surfaces. This is useful in perspective as when you have consistent architecture like windows on a building they are most often equal distances apart and similar sizes, so knowing how to measure and replicate this is helpful in achieving a more realistic look.

The first practice was a simple trick I already knew: With a square or rectangular plane you can draw a cross to find it's centre, dividing the plane into 4 equal parts or drawing a line from the corner and through the middle intersection to make an equal plane on the other side.

The next practice was drawing 2 planes next to each other, of different widths, and consistently mirroring them. To learn this technique I briefly looked at how to do it in the book, came back to practice it after half forgetting how to do it and then spent the time figuring out how to do it myself.

At first I was drawing lines through the centre point of the right plane from the bottom corner of the left plane. Then taking the corner of the right plane and drawing that through the centre line of the replicated left plane. This did not work.

After a bit of experimenting though I found that a line through the right hand centre point of the right plane from the bottom corner of the left plane gives more accurate results when mirroring the left plane. Drawing the right planes line from the bottom left corner though to the middle of the mirror plane accurately made a plane of similar width copied on the side of the mirrored plane. I checked after and confirmed this is the method used in the book. I hope that approaching it this way gives me a better understanding of it.

Knowing this now I applied it perspective.

I then worked on some ellipse and line practice

I'm still not amazing at them but I do think I'm getting better at it

Next I tried dividing an angled plane into uneven sections

This is a better practice when it comes to dividing up an angled plane that's already a predetermined length.

To make the spaces between points accurate I'd probably need a ruler and maths but for the sake of practice I just estimated the distance.

I didn't draw a line from the vanishing point on the left through the right corner of the plane so the section I divided up wasn't the size of the plane

I fixed these mistakes in the second version. It maybe worth baring this in mind when it comes to practically applying this to a drawing and just trying this technique out a few times before hand to make sure I remember how to do it right before committing.