Help neded in understanding Perceptive

[anita Stewart]

Here's a little note from one who has taught perspective for many years and uses chairs and stools all the time for " models".. It helps if you can break the chair up into planes...planes such as ..If you were doing a simple stool..You have to take into consideration the top of the stool,the sides of the seat,the bottom of the legs are on a plane, check if the dowels on the legs line up: are they on the saem plane?..the sides of the stool legs would also be on different planes..I have also seen artists take an object that is full of curved surfaces and box it in ,to give it flat planes..It's like imagining a rounded organic sculpture "put back into a piece of wood"..Like putting the carving process into reverse,taking it back to a square or rectangle shaped piece of wood. I hope this helps..

[Roger E]

Everyone!!
I have just begun an entire series on just this subject. I am including perspective from two different positions. One from the somewhat arduous needs of the commercial and industrial artists/draftsman and also one for the fine arts or the freehand prospective. I hope these will help.
Perspective is really a very simple science. It is the complexity of the subject matter that is most likely to create problems. However, without a thorough understanding of the picture plane, it is nearly impossible to grasp perspective fully. Hope the series will help. Look for it in the ArtSchool OnLine section.
Roger