Planar analysis is a way of drawing with points and lines.  Although with many planar analysis artists you can hardly tell they are doing it in their work.  In Richard Diebenkorn’s painting above, when you look at the housing the streets and the grass you can tell that he is uses planar analysis base off the line work and the block like form of everything.  It is a little harder to see that he is using it in the background on the hill that is to the right of the painting.  If you look the hill somewhat rounds at the top, but the sides just goes straight down like a straight line.  

One Point and Lines

 

 

Nighthawks

 

 

 

Edward Hopper was born on July 22, 1882.  He was an American artist known for his oil paintings.  Hopper uses perspective in almost if not all of his work.  Hopper most recognized able piece is Nighthawks painted in 1942.  In this work Hopper uses the skill of perspective to show off a diner at the end of a nicely sharp edge of a street corner.   Hopper use of perspective almost gives the viewer a frontal view of the diner.  It also lets the viewer see through both glass windows and the view of the back street, which in this case plays as the background for the customers.    The perspective of the piece also displays the view of both the counter and the chairs the customers are sitting on. 

One Point Perspective

In this video, how to draw a one point perspective is explain.  You will learn what a horizon is and what a vanishing point is.  As it is being drawn out step by step in the video there will also be someone talking it through.  The video will demonstrate both worm’s eye view and bird’s eye view so that you can see how you would draw both using one point perspective.  This one point perspective video teaches an easy way to learn how to draw basic shapes in 3 dimensional forms.  In this video drawing one point perspective will also get you use to drawing straight lines

Two Point Perspective

This video is a tutorial on how to draw with two point perspective.  It will start off as if you’re drawing a one point perspective there will be a horizon line, but instead of one vanishing point there will be two.  You will still be shown how to place each vanishing point.  In the video no one actually speaks, but the video goes slow enough so that you can catch on to what is happening and how the drawing is being done.  The video shows you three levels in which you can place your object as you draw in a two point perspective.

Three Point Perspective

This video is a video on how to draw in three point perspective.  Just like both one and two point perspective there is a horizon line and vanishing points.  This video will have three vanishing points.  It will start off showing where to place the vanishings point.  It will also explain that when drawing in three point perspectives that the lines will converge with one another instead of begin parallel.  This video will draw out each line going step by step as someone it talking you though the process. It shows you an easy way to draw three point perspective.