Drawing Lesson # 2

Elementary Drawing Skills

Three Point Perspective

In the previous lesson we discussed one point perspective, which is as wonderful to drawing as hot dogs are to eating. But who wants to spend a lifetime eating onlyhot dogs.

Three point perspective opens up our drawing world as would all the restaurants of the planet would open up our culinary universe.

The only tool you need to do this is a straightedge

People build things in relationship to the surface of the earth. Almost everything we make has flat surfaces which are parallel to the earths surface. In fact, when we make something not parallel to the ground we call it a slide and categorize it as an "amusement".

It is almost impossible to make interesting paintings without sooner or later encountering a box. Be it a building, barn, house, or household item, as artists we are going to have to draw them. And, if we do not understand perspective, botch them we will.

So here it is, maybe the most useful art lesson you will ever take., and a lot fun too.

And always remember:

In perspective drawing, all parallel lines converge at a single point.