Activity Seven - Foreshortening

Well, I didn't have to contact my tutor in regards to this particular activity, because I finally figured it out.  In short, I had to draw up a viewfinder with a frame, clear plastic sheet over it and draw some cross hairs on the plastic in order to find a centre point.



With that idea in mind, I found an image that I needed to trace over:


Much as I love this image, I didn't go out of my way to trace over all the intricate bits, instead keeping it to the edges as closely as possible.

This is the image I traced.

Drawing a slightly larger frame onto a new sheet of paper, I had to draw the same image from the viewfinder onto this sheet of paper within the frame, keeping the proportions as close to the original image as possible.  Hmmm.

I had a go at superimposing my viewfinder over the drawing to see the difference.

I don't believe I was out by terribly much, but in saying that, drawing isn't as easy as one would think.  I'm already thinking in ways that I otherwise wouldn't normally.


Eight activities completed.