Perception Drawing - 3D Objects

In this session we all sat around a table and drew 3D objects that sat in the middle. This task would help us with our perception and realism drawing.

My first drawing was of 3 boxes stacked on top of each other and this has to be my favourite drawing of the 3 because I feel I got the perceptive of the boxes from where I was sat bang on so it creates the illusion on a 2D surface that the drawing is 3D.

My second drawing was of a really old device which I drew pretty well but to experiment and try out shading I used 3 tones of felt tip grey to show where the shadows lay on the object. This helped with the 3D illusion because it shows where the light is casting down from during the time it was drawn.

My final drawing was a 3D model of the letter 'R' which I like and drew very well my only concern was one particular line which threw me as I just couldn't figure out what angle it should be drawn at to give the finishing touch of the 3D effect. Besides that I was very happy with this drawing.


Overall this session really helped me with perception drawing as I haven't really done any before this and when I come to use this technique in the future I will have some idea how to go about it.