As you know we are going to be out of school for longer than we thought. I will be posting lessons here once a week. I hope you are all making the best out of this strange situation and being safe.
At this point I hope you all know something about scale. Today we are going to experiment with using scale to show the illusion of distance. You will need two pieces of paper and a pencil.
Using one piece of paper, (or a piece of recycling if paper is in short supply) warm up by drawing something simple that you like to draw. This could be a cartoon character or a an animal. For this exercise, you must be comfortable drawing it multiple times, and have the ability to make it smaller each time.
When you are ready draw your thing with a rather large scale towards the bottom of your paper.
Then, a little bit higher up, draw that same thing, but at a slightly smaller scale.
Then, a little bit higher than that, draw that same thing even smaller!
Add details in your picture, like a horizon line and environmental details. Notice the flowers always go up to my characters hand.
I used these same techniques to make this forest scene. You can see how the ferns change in scale as they recede into the distance:
I can't wait to see some of your creative ideas using scale to show the illusion of distance in a drawing. I hope some of you will post them to our padlet!
Thanks, Mr. McGinty
https://padlet.com/gmcginty1/3ejyv7bove4z
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