A little perspective

I must apologise for my lack of blogging, but I had decided to pause momentarily until my college course started. As mentioned at the beginning my blog was founded from my desire to retrain as an interior designer, and part of this journey is starting my course. I am doing an introduction and intermediate course to Interior Design, one evening per week for 3 hours from now until June.

Last Tuesday I found myself racing from work to college, and somehow getting lost wandering around dark empty corridors at the college. Thankfully I found my class, and although originally it was meant to be a class of 30, it was a more intimate 7, this only somehow added to its charm. Also I think this will allow for a lot more one on one with my teacher.
Of course we all did the nervous introductions, and I’m sure we were all thinking I hope he/she is not better than me!
Now I must admit to not having drawn for over a decade and almost have a fear of doing so, I guess this is a result of being surrounded by talented artists!!
But my teacher literally threw us into the deep end, and we embarked upon learning about “ 1 Point Perspective”. I guess for a lot of you, this seems pretty basic, but I can admit to not knowing how to do this, and also liking the fact we started at the very beginning.

So what is a one point perspective (ok ,ok, ok if you know, just read on!)

1 Point Perspective

Using one perspective, parallel lines converge to one point somewhere in the distance. This point is called the vanishing point (VP). This gives objects an impression of depth.

When drawing using one point perspective all objects vanish to one common point somewhere on the horizon

Using one perspective, parallel lines converge to one point somewhere in the distance. This point is called the vanishing point (VP). This gives objects an impression of depth.

When drawing using one point perspective all objects vanish to one common point somewhere on the horizon.
The sides of an object diminish towards the vanishing point. All vertical and horizontal lines though are drawn with no perspective. i.e. face on.
One area where one point perspective can be quite useful is for sketching room layouts.

So we started with a kitchen, and I couldn’t believe when my drawing started to actually resemble a kitchen and looked semi decent.
Before I knew it my class,( three whole hours) had finished, I felt inspired, and for once in a very long time had actually learnt something.

My first drawing...............................................