Week 6

Mirroring planes and drawing curves

'How to draw' by Scott Robinson goes through mirroring planes. I realise the techniques in this part are similar to the ones went through last week. Scott Robinson uses rectangles to represent mirror planes in the book but mirroring a plane converging to the same vanishing point is the same technique as multiplying a rectangular plane with a gap between.

When it comes to mirroring planes vertically its the same principles but just to find the lines to each edge.

When it comes to angled planes it's changed up a bit, but not much. You have to find the vanishing point of the mirror line as well as the plane, then you multiply the distance between that on the far and near side and use that to find the vanishing point of the new plane.

Overall mirroring planes felt deceptively simple. From here I'll need to identify when to use what I've leaned in work and how much harder it is with more complex shapes. I'll also have to incorporate them into my warm ups to ensure I remember how to do it. Once you know the principles of mirroring it's using them to problem solve.

I worked on some of the curve work digitally and it got deleted but effectively copying curves in perspective has multiple techniques that the user can use and combine in order to get an effective outcome.

For me I use the triangle method a fair bit. I break the plane up, find the centre with diagonals and then break the curve up into points where they meet on the line of the diagonal. I connect the points in perspective to find that point of the curve mirrored. If I need more points I'll use triangles to find more intersections I can connect with a line in perspective. Near the top of the plane I can also add another smaller plain to make another triangle I can use for reference. With enough points I just need to connect them and I have something that should resemble the same curve flipped in perspective somewhat acuratly.