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1 Point Perspective Drawing Technique – Part 1

admin tarafından, Art and Design, Perspective, Tutorials kategorisi altında, 01/11/2010 tarihinde gönderildi

If you came here from my post on Perspective Basics, I assume you know the basic terms and we can go on from there. If you are new to perspective then I advise you to start from the Basics.

1 point perspective scene setup

In the 1 point perspective technique we assume that the guide lines converge at 1 point on the horizon line. For this to happen we should be looking at our objects at a perpendicular angle. Let’s say we are looking at a box. The front and back sides should be parallel to our picture plane, and the left and right sides should be perpendicular to our picture plane, so that as the distance from the POV increases, the guide lines describing the left and right sides converge at the vanishing point. At short, we should be looking right at one side of the box.

First things first, we have to set up our scene. What did I say in the previous related article? I advised you to firstly imagine the scene and get a vision of the drawing you expect to draw. That should make things a lot easier.

1 point perspective - basic scene setup

We need two sets of helping drawings: top view and side view to assist in drawing our perspective, as you can see below. Sometimes if we are in an exam we may be given the helping drawings, (top view, side view, or any orthographic drawing). But if we are going to draw the perspective of our own desing we will have to draw these helping drawings ourselves. We have our objects in our scene and the POV, so all we have to do is to draw it. We have to place a picture frame and the axis of origin. Added to that we should specify our ground line, eye level and the horizon line. To make things easier place the picture plane on the front side of the object closest to us. The dimensions of this side of the object thus can automatically be depicted onto our scene, because it is on our picture plane. Among all of these imagine and then draw the axis of origin and the picture frame. After you can derive the rest.

Next we must place our vanishing point. In the 1 point perspective this is simple, we just intersect the eye level with the Z axis from the axis of origin, which automatically falls onto the picture plane.

It’s now the turn of the guide lines. We first draw the face of our object that we see directly in front of us on the picture plane. Now draw guide lines from the corners of this face. It resembles the object but we don’t know the depths of the side faces yet. To keep this post from going on for too long, I will leave it here.

Have a go at it for yourself and see how it comes out. You’ll see it’s not that difficult.

In part 2 of this subject we will finish this case study of the scene above, and draw the perspective of the scene from the point of view (POV). I will show you my depiction of the perspective in part 2, and you can compare yours to mine.

point PA-PB - top view

point PA-PB - side view

I’m back at last!

admin tarafından, Art and Design, Personal, Welcome kategorisi altında, 29/10/2010 tarihinde gönderildi

It’s been a long time since I last posted, I know. My previous post is from July 2009 and it has been over a year. I’m aware that this means that I have stopped my blogging life before I even had a good start. The reason why I gave a break is because I went back to work. Since July last year, I have been working as an designer architect on housing complexes with retail and office facilities. And as you can guess work has taken up a lot of my energy and time. For most of the year I haven’t been able to find the strength to even think about blogging. However for some time now my fingers have been fidgetty and itching around. I guess the time has come for me to make the effort and create extra time to do the things I really want. It’s time to get rid of the excuses and get down to business.

Well I’m back, not only with the blogging but with the photography and videos too. Everyone beware, Serda is back in town .

Recycled bottles and lampshades

admin tarafından, Art and Design, Eco Design kategorisi altında, 14/05/2009 tarihinde gönderildi

sustainable lampshades

What to do with all those bottles that don’t get recycled? Sarah Turner from Eco Art & Design has innovatively designed lighting fixtures to add a solution and draw attention to the growing problem. She states that:

It is estimated that only 5.5% of plastic drinks bottles are recycled in the UK. So these lights aim to do something creative with them and overall save a few bottles from the landfill sites.

And to top that she creates lovely decorative objects that we can proudly display in our interiors. I wish all products were designed with a similar sensitivity to the environment.

This design was awarded 2nd place @ Innovation Nation Competition 2009

For further reading:
Sarah Turner, Eco Art & Design

My Architect: The Documentary of Louis I. Kahn

admin tarafından, Art and Design, Book and Film Reviews kategorisi altında, 28/04/2009 tarihinde gönderildi

This Documentary written and directed by Nathaniel Kahn paints a touching story of the search of his self identity through the investigation of the secret and public lives of his father, the famous architect Louis Kahn.
Nathaniel Kahn had little chance to know his father while growing up, and with this documentary his pursuit is completely devoted to learning from his father’s life, at getting to know him better, and by some means fill the void his father has left in his life.
Nathaniel elegantly combines his investigation of his father’s private life; Louis Kahn juggled between 3 families, and his exhausting proffessional standing. Nathaniel explores his family history with his interviews with his mother and 2 half sisters, from father Kahn’s wife and colleage. He is very sincere in trying to know them better, since he has grown up not knowing his father or of his other families very well.
With this documentary we see Louis Kahn as a man although very charming to women, not very successful with relationship or parenting issues, since he is completely devoted to his profession, architecture. He spends most of his time at his office nearly always sleeping there. But that is the price Louis Kahn pays to create timeless architectural masterpieces. He is consumed by his job and tries to find relaxation through the little time he spends with his 3 families.
Louis Kahn leaves several monumental architectural structures when he dies. One of them the Parliament Building of Bangladesh. He spends a lot his time travelling to Bangladesh and back during the process of this project.
Father Kahn dies in 1974, when Nathaniel is just 11 years old, ironically in a restroom at the Pennsylvania trainstation.
He leaves behind a heritage of great architectural buildings to be admired by new generation architects, a bankrupt office in 500,000$ in debt, and last but not least, a shattered life of 3 children one from his wife and 2 from 2 other long term relationships.

A melodramatic visit: In Bruges

admin tarafından, Book and Film Reviews kategorisi altında, 10/04/2009 tarihinde gönderildi

How can a film be increadibly gloomy, funny, touching, artistically fulfilling, and, catching at the same time? With “In Bruges” we see it is possible. The film is both; a visual fiest of medeival architecture of the well preserved city of Bruges, and a good example of English black comedy.

The scenes of the city create a sublime atmosphere in the film, and overwhelm you to go there, and the dialogues, contradicting the atmosphere of the city, are full of slang and comic remarks displaying the humanistic side of two Irish hitmen trying, however failing, not to catch attention.

The language is goofy and sly, to the extent of mocking midgets and the Americans, and the acting is touching; especially Brendan Gleeson who plays the mature hitman Ken always looking out for his rookie partner Ray (Colin Farrell), who are two Irish hitmen told to “lay low” in Bruges for two weeks by their boss’, after a job that has gone terribly wrong.

It’s not surprising that the Director Martin McDonagh is an Irish play-writer who has won the Oscar for his short film “Six Shooter” last year. McDonagh has done a well job with his fellow Irishmen Farrell and Gleeson. Finally, Ralph Fiennes also displays some surprising acting. After we have gotten used to his sophisticated English accent and role accordingly, we see him as a Cockney speaking gangster boss from London, reminding us of Michael Caine.

The only bad thing about the movie is the poster. It underrates the quality of the film by presenting it as a thrilling action movie (which is what I thought it was). The poster also doesn’t give Brendan Gleeson the credits he deserves since he plays the pivot role of the whole film. However, as much as I like surprises, despite the promotion, this film well overcame my expectations.

This is one of the most impressive movies I’ve ever watched. I sincerely recommend “In Bruges” as a film of both artistic and cinematographic quality.