Two-Point Perspective

Mike Parr

Parr is an artist who is in the world of contour drawing. Many of his pieces where an example of blind contour drawing. 

Cross Contour Drawing is when the artist draws lines going either horizontal or vertical or both. The artist then uses the lines to describe the dept and or the roundness of an object.  In cross contour you use the lines to make the form of the object you are drawing. In some cases of cross contour the use of hatching is use to show characteristics and the mass of an object.  

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                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