UNIT 4: LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

3D ART: A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

The wife of 15th-century Italian artist Paolo Uccello used to beg him to come to bed. She was fed up of him staying up all night drawing objects with the new method of 3D illusion – or as it was called at the time, "perspective". He still wouldn't come to bed. "This perspective is such a sweet thing," he said.

As you already know we live in a three-dimensional world:  

1. Height  2. Length  3. Depth

We can change or viewpoint, trasnforming the way we see things. That way objects seem to be smaller of bigger depending whether we are close or far away from them. The same way objects might seem to vanish or disappear when we move around them or we move away from them. Light also plays a very interesting role in the way we perceive objects. 

3D OPTICAL ILLUSION

Now let's watch a few tutorials 

How to draw ONE POINT LINEAR PERPECTIVE: 

How to draw TWO POINT PERPECTIVE: 

How to draw AN OPTICAL ILLUSION AND 3D EFFECT: