Pe r s p e c t ive
O NE P OINT C ITY
Learning Goals:
 You will create a uni-
fied composition while
becoming more famil-
iar with the 6 devices
of perspective:
Overlapping
Size
Placement
Detail
Linear
Color
 You will use color pen-
cils at add value cor-
rectly to your perspec-
tive tower.
Guidelines:
1. Full name on back of art
2. Original
3. Good craft (tidy corners
on the buildings, accurate
angles in the perspective,
outlined neatly and com-
pletely)
4. Fills up entire paper
5. One vanishing point
only
6. Perspective is accurate:
A r t Fo u n da t io ns
PROCEDURE:
Using the handout (a
1-point perspective
project) for reference,
you will create a pen-
cil drawing of a city
from a bird’s eye
view. You decide
what type of city to
create. It could be a
sleepy country town
or a bustling metrop-
olis filled with sky
scrapers. Select
where this city will
be located. Your city
could be in the Far
East or Down Under.
You can select the the shapes of the tops rounding environ-
time frame as well. of the building first, ment. Draw the con-
You could design a and then draw reced- tours lightly with a
city from the distant ing lines from the pencil as you will use
past or a city from corners of the roof a sharpie to complete
the future. The only tops to the vanishing the art.
limit is your imagi- point. Continue de- .
nation! tailing the buildings,
adding stories (floor)
Draw one vanishing windows, details on
point in the middle the roof tops, and so
of your 12 x 12 white forth. Once you have
paper. Use a ruler finished the city it-
and a pencil to draw self, draw the sur-
One P o i n t C i ty

Please answer the following with at least 4 complete sentences:

DESCRIBE YOUR PROJECT WITH AS MANY DETAIL AS POSSIBLE.

JUDGE Y O U R D R AW I N G – D I S C U S S OV E R A L L D E S I G N , S H A D I N G
TECHNIQUES , AND N EATN ES S. IN THE END, WERE YOU S UCCESSFUL IN
THE ASSIGNMENT BASED ON THE REQUIREMENTS AND TIMELINE?

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