You can draw in perspective

Traditional Chessboard showing depth by Overlapping High/low placement Linear perspective

Project: Create a Fantasy Chessboard

Perspective Perspective Drawing is a technique used to represent three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional picture plane.

Linear Perspective was discovered during the Italian Renaissance in about 1413 by Filippo Brunelleschi

15th century illustration from the Old French translation of William of Tyre's Histoire d'Outremer

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Before the Italian Renaissance perspective was not correct

Pietro Perugino, Entrusting the Keys to Saint Peter, 1481–82.

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After the Italian Renaissance art showed depth and reality

The School of Athens. (Raphael, The School of Athens; Scala / Art Resource, NY)

Notice the floor The School of Athens by Raphael (Scala / Art Resource, NY)

Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper, 1498 Mixed technique, 460 x 880 cm Refectory, Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Basic perspective drawing

Object above eye level vanishing point eye level Objects below eye level

Draw objects parallel to the picture plane

Drawing of a room interior in one point perspective

Draw a room interior in One Point Perspective

Demonstrate these vocabulary terms in drawing your Fantasy Chessboard Space picture lane overlapping high-low placement linear perspective vanishing point one point perspective eye level framing aerial perspective

Types of lines used parallel perpendicular convergence orthogonal lines

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STEPS IN THE PROCESS

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a chessboard grid ž  Trace the grid to good paper ž  Draw —  A back wall —  Ceiling lines —  One door —  One window

The Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/aic/education/sciarttech/ 2d1.html

Flat grid

Convergent grid

Perspective helps 2D look 3D

Realism to Surrealism

Salvador Dali, The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, 1952-1954 Johannes Vermeer , The Music Lesson, 1662-1665

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Realism or naturalism is the depiction of ordinary, everyday subjects in a truthful way.

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Surrealism features the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions

Realism to Surrealism

Realism in a chessboard

Surrealism in a chessboard

Plan your Fantasy Chessboard Composition The Theme of my Fantasy Chessboard is…. Theme or mood Location or Setting

3 Furniture

3 Characters, tokens or players Fantasy Chessboard Draw a chessboard grid Draw a room interior in One-point perspective

2 Openings to another space

1 Surprise ?

Next STEPS IN THE PROCESS Get an idea for your theme

Plan your composition through sketches

Seek and find resource images needed

Sandy Skoglund, Red Foxes

Design your space to express a theme

Create a Fantasy

Create characters, tokens or players large and small

Size follows perspective from foreground to background

How  will  my  Fantasy  Chessboard  Drawing  be  scored? Enhance the depth illusion The size of objects follows perspective from large in the foreground to smaller in the background.



No copyrighted characters Nothing inappropriate

Draw objects and furniture

PROJECT  TITLE:  FANTASY  CHESSBOARD

Composition Space  is  filled  and  demonstrates  a  balanced  figure/space  relationship.    No   large  inactive  negative  spaces.  Design  shapes  are  clear  and  defined  using  one   point  linear  perspective.  The  space  is  fully  developed  as  a  room  interior  viewed   from  eye  level. Media  /Technique Students  application  of  the  media  and/or  technique  was  accurately  done Craftsmanship Student  works  neatly  and  carefully,  paying  aBention  to  details. Creativity/Originality Inventive  approach  to  solving  visual  problems.  Student  transcends   traditional  ideas,  rules,  paBerns  and  relationships,  applying  unique  interpretation   and  original  thinking.   Effort/Challenge Student  gives  effort  beyond  bare  minimum;  meets  deadlines.

How  will  my  Fantasy  Chessboard  Drawing  be  scored?



Composition Space  is  filled  and  demonstrates  a  balanced  figure/space  relationship.    No   large  inactive  negative  spaces.  Design  shapes  are  clear  and  defined  using  one  point   linear  perspective.  The  space  is  fully  developed  as  a  room  interior  viewed  from  eye   level  showing  objects  in  the  foreground  ,middle  ground  and  background. Background

Middle ground

Foreground

How  will  my  Fantasy  Chessboard  Drawing  be  scored?



Media  /Technique Students  application  of  the  media  and/or  technique  was  accurately  done

How  will  my  Fantasy  Chessboard  Drawing  be  scored? Craftsmanship Student  works  neatly  and  carefully,  paying  aBention  to  details.



How  will  my  Fantasy  Chessboard  Drawing  be  scored? Creativity Inventive  approach  to  solving  visual  problems.  



How  will  my  Fantasy  Chessboard  Drawing  be  scored? Originality Student  transcends  traditional  ideas,  rules,  paBerns  and  relationships,   applying  unique  interpretation  and  original  thinking.



How  will  my  Fantasy  Chessboard  Drawing  be  scored?



Effort/Challenge Student  gives  effort  beyond  bare  minimum;  meets  deadlines.  The  space  is   fully  developed  as  a  room  interior  viewed  from  eye  level.

Pepón Osorio, best known for large-scale installations, was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1955.

Take a Closer Look What objects has the artist put in this room? What story is he trying to tell?

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