Perspective: Angular Perspective

For this exercise I was to make a line drawing of one or several buildings seen corner-on, or of a group of books arranged corner-on on a table. I chose the books and arranged several on a table to draw them as accurately possible, and found it very discouraging when I identified the vanishing points and receding lines, and saw how far out my drawing was from the correct ones.

I then did a second one using a ruler drawing the receding parallel lines and two vanishing points for reference, and this time the result was very accurate.

Using the same method, I sketched the front of my house corner-on, and although it has a few more challenging vanishing points such as the roof, and the vanishing point on the left is well outside the paper, I think I managed to get a fairly accurate depiction of the house. I learned a lot about perspective from the exercise, and though I need more practice to get to the point where I don’t need to use reference lines to draw perspective of a building accurately, I’m improving.