Toolkit 2 - 2D week 2

 Perspective

This week we went back over perspective and how to create perspective grids. The first perspective grid we looked at was the 2 point perspective grid. In order to construct a 2 point perspective grid, the first thing to do is mark out the area you're going to be working in, and then drawing points all around the edges of the area at regular intervals. Once the points are in place, you draw a horizon line somewhere on the canvas, the ends of the horizon line can be used as the areas to mark out the vanishing points. Once these vanishing points are in place, they are connected to each of the points around the edges of the work space in order to make the grid. The vanishing points can be moved further away or closer to the centre of the work space depending on the extreme you want for your perspective. 

After recaping how to make a two point perspective grid, we were then asked to make a three point perspective grid. Adding a third vanishing point to a perspective grid isn't difficult to do, The third point can be added either above or below the grid or the left or right if its a portrait grid. 

Finally, we looked at 5 point perspective grids, these are more complicated than the previous two grids. In order to make a 5 point perspective grid, one vanishing point goes in the middle of the canvas, and then 4 others at the midway points of the canvas edges. The vanishing points can be marked out using horizon lines. In order to make the construction of the grid easier, the corner points can also be connected using lines. Once all of the construction lines are in place, you start to draw increasingly more curved acrs connecting opposing vanishing points until you end up with a circular perspective grid.

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