Perspective

All objects we look at have perspective. Objects closer to us are bigger than objects further away. In other words as objects get further away they seem to 'vanish into the distance'.

The ability to produce good sketches with convincing perspective is an important skill to master helping you to visualise your ideas. There are many ways to gain these skills. Practicing drawing objects can help you see how perspective works and will help you with freehand sketches. But this will take time.

What we need are methods of constructing objects in using a reliable system. There are three main perspective systems which allow you to construct an object using a ruler.

• One point perspective
• Two point perspective
• Three point perspective