Vanishing Point

This lesson was taught to show us line, shape, form and space. We were given a piece of paper and were told to draw a dot on the paper about in the middle and not all the way to the top and not towards the bottom; we followed the teacher's instructions. After we made our vanishing point we had to make different buildings, windows, sidewalks, doors, and etc., by connecting to our vanishing point. That is why when you look above to my picture you notice everything goes up and looks like it would eventually connect to the vanishing point. A lot of times we would draw our building lines to the vanishing point, but then erased the lines so that it looked like buildings. We were given rulers in order to get straight, connecting lines to the vanishing point. We only used pencils and the paper was light colored; therefore, it is kind of difficult to see the whole layout of the "city".

An extension of this project would be to keep building up different buildings and making sure they connect to the vanishing point. I only have a couple buildings above, but maybe when the students get familiar with this way of drawing, they could continue to keep putting up more buildings by using the vanishing point technique.