Standing in the Shoes - Kara Crouch

Above is a two-point perspective drawing. The first vanishing point is immediately to the left of the biggest (closest) tree along the horizon line. The second vanishing point is on the right side of the drawing at the end of the road, below the smallest set of clouds, also along the horizon line. Atmospheric perspective is illustrated through the blue hue of the objects furthest away. For example, the three trees get darker and bluer as they approach the vanishing point on the right. The sky and the clouds on the right side of the page are also a much darker blue near the vanishing point than they are on the left side of the page, which appear closest to the viewer. The hills also show the atmospheric perspective in that the left hills are a lighter green than the darker, bluer hills near the vanishing point on the right. The sky above the hills is also a darker blue. The houses and the trees are instrumental in showing how objects in the foreground (closer) are bigger than those in the background (further away). The tree furthest to the left is much bigger than the one furthest to the right (closer to the vanishing point). The house on the left is bigger than the house on the right; the features of the right house (windows, doors, bricks, etc.) also appear smaller because they are closer to the right vanishing point. The hills in the background are particularly useful. They not only show that as an object approaches the vanishing point, it gets smaller, but the hills also illustrate the background behind the houses. In real life, the hills are much larger than the houses, but they appear smaller in the drawing because they are far away. Most lines go toward the right vanishing point. The left vanishing point was used to create the sides and roofs of the houses; it was also used to create the horizontal lines of the sidewalks leading up to the houses.