Perspective Drawing for Beginners
10 Week Class | Available
Perspective Drawing for Beginners is an introductory course to the fundamental perspective concepts and systems. This is a course appropriate for students with little to no experience with perspective drawing or students who need a refresher on basic perspective concepts. Through weekly lectures and demonstrations, students will learn about the eyeline, vantage point, 1 point, 2 point, and 3-point perspective, how to rotate objects in perspective, multi-point perspective and how to scale characters and objects. This is a course that focuses on building student confidence and understanding through demonstrations and technical studies recommended for homework. By the end of the course, students will understand how to construct solid drawings of objects, indoor spaces, and outdoor scenes.
Base Tuition: $480 + Material Fee: $10 = $490 Total ___________________________________________________________________________________
- What You Will Learn:
- What is perspective and how does it work?
- What the eye line is, and how its vantage point can affect the mood and structure of a scene
- The simple construction of our five basic forms: Cylinder, Sphere, Box, Cone and Pyramid, both without perspective, as well as in all three major perspective systems
- 1, 2, and 3-point perspective
- How to properly rotate objects in perspective (multi-point perspective)
- Aerial perspective techniques: what it is, and why it matters
- How to scale characters and objects in a scene
Lindsey Rosenow
Lindsey is a Toronto-based Artist who has been teaching in Toronto for the last 6 years.
She has taught film making, stop motion and classical animation, script writing, camera editing and video game design at the Toronto International Film Festival. And at the Animation Portfolio Workshop, topics included Gesture Drawing, Structure Drawing, Anatomy, Character Design, Perspective, Layout Design, Composition, Animation for beginners, and Storyboarding. Currently, Lindsey is working freelance with a focus on design jobs for animation as a layout artist and prop designer.
Lindsey is a big believer in progressive learning - she values transferable skills over singular assignments, making sure that all lessons work cohesively with one another.