Human Body Drawing: Lesson 7: Perspective in General
Forget cylinders and tin cans for a moment, and imagine the body enclosed in a parallelepiped (that is to say, an elongated rectangular block) whose divisions would correspond to 8 units in height, 2 in width and almost one and a half in depth. Place this volume in perspective: the divisions A, B, C, etc., naturally converge towards a vanishing point on the horizon, as do the divisions a', b', c', etc.
And if we put the human body in place of this block-crate, the lines given by the level of the shoulders, nipples, elbows, hips, down to the feet, will vanish towards a point on the horizon which will materialize the perspective (fig. 37). We must therefore take perspective into account, which comes into play in a fundamental way, in all cases, whatever our position or that of the model.
Notice on the other hand, on this same illustration no. 37, that there is a perspective relationship, between the measurements of figures A, B, and C; C is proportionally larger than B, and B larger than A, etc., that is to say that the three figures are placed in perspective in relation to a given horizon.
Let us take this opportunity to study this interesting problem of perspective.
HOW TO PLACE SEVERAL CHARACTERS IN PERSPECTIVE
There are many occasions when the artist must draw several characters, in the same picture and with a given horizon. A problem of perspective then arises, the solution of which is as follows:
Enough perspective! I only ask you, before abandoning it for good, to put the previous data into practice, to try to understand them well and assimilate them.
