WillMarbleRoll

=Perspective: Will the Marble Roll?= [| Student Gallery]

This is a review of perspective and the need for careful looking. Some of you did this in DP last year; if it seems too easy, up the ante and use more than three books... 1. Choose three or more differently sized books (for instance, a thick dictionary, a paperback, and an oddly sized book) and place them on a table with their “spines” at different angles to your viewpoint. 2. Place a marble on top of the books. 3. Your goal is to draw the books in perspective so that the marble you place on top will not roll or look like it will roll off. 4. HINT: Drawing with the marble near eye level helps, but you must draw so that you see some of all three surfaces of the books. 5. Please use a pencil but you may choose to add color pencil or some other non-distracting medium if you like. 6. You may wish to do some quick practices before you begin a final copy. 7. You may choose to give some indication of a light source through a good range of values on your books and marble corresponding shadows and or by using line weight to indicate weight of objects. 8. Remember to consider your whole page when composing.

Hints: 1. Pay particular attention to the direction of the angles of the rectangular forms. Hold a pencil up to “sight” the angle, then compare to the line drawn on your paper. 2. Pay particular attention to where lines intersect, or meet, other lines and forms. This will help you find the sizes of your objects and place them in space. 3. Give this enough time--it is tougher than it may seem!