Perspective drawing is one of those funny art skills that is confusing and complicated until it just clicks -and ohh we love when that happens!
5th and 6th Graders have spent several weeks learning how to draw in one-point perspective, leading up to individual city drawings.
We began in the hallway and took note of the vertical and horizontal lines created by the hallway's walls & ceiling. I had a student slowly walk away from us, as we placed one hand at their feet, and another on top of their head. As the student walked away, our hands got closer - oh its fun to shrink our friends and watch them become giants again!
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Next we worked in our sketchbooks to create basic geometric shapes in one point perspective,
having lines head to a vanishing point.
Once we had a handle on those tricky little cubes, we moved on to buildings!
First in pencil, then outlining in Sharpie.
Then came the colored pencils!
Here are several of the finished cities -
Evan
Christian
Libby
Kate
Finn
Tucker
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