The perspective exercise went smoothly, with little problems. I had taken classes in drawing perspective and did some exercises on this before, so I have a general understanding of how perspective works. Not perfect, but there were less setbacks than in the previous exercise.
I set my scene and quickly constructed the general form of the objects, taking the perspective into consideration and extending the lines so I could see them clearly and get an idea of where the lines would meet into the vanishing point, see if it works for my object and make sure it doesn’t look weird or exaggerated.
These are my objects:
And this is my sketch:
I had noticed the glass cup looked a bit weird and couldn’t figure out why, but I brushed it off. (Note to self: Don’t do that.) I started working on the lines, straightening them and darkening the ones of the objects of interest, or the objects that are closer, overall trying to make the drawing cleaner:
Then started the hatching, adding tone to the drawing:
I did my best to distinguish between the darker and lighter tones, to keep it from becoming too flat. It worked, partially:
I finished hatching and also did the background. After the first round of feedback I turned the cup around, because having the wider part of the object in the back added a challenge I was not ready for:
Overall, in terms of tonal work it still ended up looking a bit flat, so, after the second round of feedback, I concentrated on adding contrast to the reflections on the glass and darkening the cube in the middle. I also added stronger highlights to the cup and erased the top part of the glass bottle’s shadow. The perspective on the cube in the middle was a bit exaggerated, so I fixed that too:
And the second drawing, to which, after the feedback I also made the contrast on the glass stronger, and fixed an awkward looking shadow; the perspective on the triangle was also a bit exaggerated:
This exercise improved my understanding of perspective and how to apply it on simple geometrical forms.
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