Perspective

Vanishing Point

• Two or more lines that get closer and closer

• x marks the spot

• the point at which something that has been growing smaller or increasingly faint disappears altogether

• A form of drawing and painting in which parallel lines are represented as coming together to give the illusion of near and far.

Horizon Line is

• the sunset

• the sunrise

• is a horizontal line that runs across the paper or canvas to represent the viewer's eye level, or seperates where the sky meets the ground.

• A form of drawing and painting in which parallel lines are represented as coming together to give the illusion of near and far

one point perspective has

• 1 vanishing point

• 2 vanishing points

• 3 vanishing points

• 4 vanishing points

2 point perspective

• has 6 points on the horizon line

• has 1 point on the horizon line

• has 2 points on the horizon line

• has 5 points on the horizon line

Everything gets bigger the closer it is towards the center of a one point perspective drawing.

• True

• False

You should never use a ruler on a perspective drawing because that is cheating and real artists never use rulers!

• True

• False

What is the eye-level line where the sky meets the ground?

• vanishing point

• orthogonal line

• horizontal line

• horizon line

Trees and buildings should appear _________ as they go away from us.

• larger
• smaller
• the same height

What kind of perspective view is this?

• one point perspective
• three point perspective
• two point perspective

Learning perspective drawing helps you create the illusion of depth by developing a three-dimensional image on a two-dimensional surface. True or False?

• True
• False