Back from Spring Break...

I welcome myself back to blogging after a beautiful spring break, current update for my project is that I bought a sketching book and I´m drawing my first building :)  I´m drawing the Taj Majal because it was requested by an Hindu friend in my first period and its a pretty cool building so ...here I go... I have basic structure sketched out and soon I will be adding all the details to the building.

Here is a picture :P ->


This week I´m planning on reading one of the books Daniel downloaded (he downloaded all this cool books for architectures and how to sketch , I have them in a CD). I also asked miss Jenkins, the art teacher at Cypress Bay High School, about perspective drawing (because that is what we are going to focus on because we´re drawing buildings) and she showed me these posters that she has for her lessons on perspective; I learned that there are 3 types of perspective drawing which are defined by the amount of  vanishing points in the drawing. There are 1 point, 2 point and 3 point drawings. But the real help I got with this was today that I ran into a very artsy friend who is an incredible artist and she explained with drawings what perspective is about and we saw pictures in books and identified the different types of perspectives. Sara is her name, she also explained how you can have aa birds eye or worms eye effect to your pictures by drawing the objects either lower or above the horizon line.

A good example for 1point perspective is a picture of a tunnel or a hallway; its an image that is pulled from one point.
Ex:

Then two point would be like a picture of a corner where you can see both sides of a wall, building, etc.
Ex:

Then Three point, according to what Mrs. Jenkins said, is the reality of how things are. It shows the 3 dimensions of objects by adding the third point. An example would be :

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I feel good about where this is going, Ill have pictures of my next drawings and the Taj Majal complete soon :)
good night