Gloucestershire perspectives

Draw a building a day and your perspective problems will soon reach vanishing point!

And you can do it in the comfort of your home. With this sort of exercise there’s no shame in taking photos to draw from. Here’s David setting an excellent example:

David: Today we visited Tetbury in the downpour. Here’s the Market House, I found myself really fighting the urge to moderate the angles of convergence but overcame that urge to show how steep they really were. God loves a trier, and I’m certainly trying!

John: Yes, there’s definitely an angle-flattener in the brain that has to be overcome by putting faith in what the eyes actually observe.

Not bad at all, this. The only quibble I have is that the pavement on the right seems to have upended into a different plane from the road. Look at the point where that pavement meets wall and staircase. The photo shows it to be a very obtuse angle.

I like the church drawing; it’s both relaxed and in perspective. Exactly what you want when you draw buildings.