Not looking at what you are drawing is one of the most common errors an Art student can make. Many students try to draw things the way that they thinkthey should look, not the way they actually do look. The only way to draw shape, proportion and detail correctly is to look at the objects. You must observe: your eyes must keep dancing from the piece of paper to the object and back again. Not just once or twice, but constantly. As you start your drawing do not use dark lines since it’s harder to erase dark lines if you need to change something.
Students will draw a detailed 2 point perspective architectural house with pencil and then outline it with sharpie. Draw 2 sides of the house! They then will add color or outline with Sharpie.
The students will:
Use the whole page
Draw a house accurately
Use rulers to draw straight lines.
Show accurate 2 point perspective.
Art Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
Vocabulary
Horizontal Line: the horizon is where the land (or sea) and sky meet. In painting perspective, it's the level your eyes are at, an imaginary line to which things recede.
Linear Perspective:The illusion of depth, representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally and that recede from one point (one-point perspective) two points (two-point perspective) or several points on a horizon line as perceived by a viewer.
One Point perspective: the drawing has a single vanishing point
Two Point Perspective: is a type of linear perspective. In two-point perspective, there exist two points from which an object’s lines recede from; the sides of the object vanish to one of two vanishing points on the horizon line.
Orthogonal Lines: Perspective diagonal lines that point to the vanishing point.
Parallel: side by side lines and having the same distance continuously between them.
Recede: go or move back or further away
Vanishing Point: a point on the horizon line where the orthogonal lines appear to meet.
