Find examples of 1 and 2 perspective scenes.You can always practice perspective quite deliberately using photos: I was mainly intrigued by the gorgeous vintage car juxtaposed by the grim terraced housing and stormy sky – that’s why I took the photo – but it works well as an example of a one-point perspective.īut you may position yourself on the corner of a building where you can see both sides of the building and that each side vanishes off to 2 different points on the horizon such as the photo below. This is a good example of a one-point perspective where all of the parallel lines in the photo seem to be sucked into a black hole in the distance, ha ha. I took the photo above a while ago in London. Well – it depends where you stand (or sit)…you may want to position yourself deliberately so that you are drawing a one-point perspective, for example looking down a street or path where all the lines meet at one point on the horizon line. So – how do you know which perspective you’re dealing with?
If, for example, you are at the top of a skyscraper looking down and the bottoms of the buildings seem to lean in towards each other – this is known as “birds-eye view”. So – if you are looking up and you can see the walls leaning in towards each other – this is known as a “worm’s eye view” – such as in my diagram above and the photo below. You may have noticed this when you take photos and buildings seem to lean into each other as cameras dramatically exaggerate the perspective. Three-point perspective is where you have….(you guessed it)….3 vanishing points!! So where is the third one you may ask? Well, it can be up or it can be down! We shall take a look at this much later in the post – but if you want to jump straight there, then click here. Therefore, non-linear perspective utilises other principles to infer depth, distance and perspective. This kind of perspective is most common in natural scenes and landscapes. Non-linear perspective is when there are no lines present that recede off into the distance. There are lots of lines sloping off at various angles to indicate they have depth and are thus 3D. Linear perspective is what we usually find in architectural scenes, whether it’s external vies of buildings or interior spaces. Again – I shall show examples of these a bit further on in this post. If there are 2 vanishing points on the horizon line, then this is a two-point perspective. If there is only one vanishing point on the horizon line and all the parallel lines in the scene meet (or ‘converge’) there, then this is known as a one-point perspective. Linear perspective refers to a scene where there are parallel lines that recede off into the distance – to something called a vanishing point located on the horizon line – don’t worry we are going to cover this in more depth later in this post, this is just a high-level explanation for now. The first distinction to make is between linear perspective and non-linear perspective.
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