How-To-Draw: First Point Perspective Room

Have you ever wondered how to draw making something looking 3D? Well this style of art is called perspective. There's one, two, and three point perspective. The difficulty for each one follows in that same order, easiest, intermediate, and hard. Gif Peanut Butter says “first point perspective is not that much different from two. It’s a little simpler and straightforward.” This will be my how-to post for first point perspective of a room.

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First Step:
The first thing you need to do is find the center of your paper. To do this, just measure half the length of your paper and draw a horizontal line. Then find half the width and draw a vertical line. Draw a dot/circle where they meet and erase excess markings. This now becomes your vanishing point(VP).

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Second Step:
Draw an even square/rectangle around your VP. Keep in mind that this shape becomes the back wall of the room.

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Third Step:
Draw a line from one inner corner of your box to the one opposite it. Repeat for the remaining two corners.

Line your ruler up with one of the diagonal lines, then continue each end of the line until it reaches the edge of your paper. Repeat for the other diagonal line. Erase the diagonal lines that are inside your box. You then will have a box with four diagonal lines on the outside. If done correctly, you now have a layout for your room.

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Fourth Step:
Now, lets start with a dresser. Put your pencil somewhere on a bottom diagonal line(I would say around the middle of the line). From this spot, draw a line up, then a line horizontal toward the other diagonal line. These lines shouldn’t be drawn to high or too far left/right, depending on which diagonal you chose.

Finish drawing the rest of the box and erase the diagonal line in the box. Resulting in this:

Now, Draw a line from each corner to the VP(never draw a line from the farthest corner from the VP for it will be hidden behind the object). These lines going to the VP are receding lines.

Find the receding lines that are coming from the top two corners of the small box. Draw a horizontal line connecting the two lines. The spot where the receding and horizontal line meet(on the side closest to the middle of the paper), draw a vertical line down to the other receding line.  Now erase the remaining receding lines from where you drew to the VP and any marks inside your box. Resulting in this:

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Fifth Step:
It’s time for one last step, the window. On one wall of your room, draw two vertical lines parallel to each other. The distance separating them are up to you. First, draw a receding line from the line farthest the VP going to it. Repeat for the other end of the same line. If the inner vertical line was long enough, you should now have a rectangle on your wall. Erase extra lines not needed and excess receding lines. Resulting in this:

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Sixth and Remaining Steps:
Now, it’s your turn to figure the rest out.

Sources:
Drawing photos courtesy of yours truly, Chris~Anonymous

Arts Impact On Success

People have always been wondering how to improve success. How can you? If the kid doesn't try, people punish to give them a fearful motive. Have you ever tried a tutor?


According to Brett Zongker, Charlotte Observer, two actresses plan to help the Obama Administration turn schools around with the arts. Sarah Jessica Parker and Kerry Washington pledged to use this strategy to transform eight specific schools.

Research is going to be demonstrated to prove art can change behavior problems and increase success. Its going to be a two-year initiative focusing on eight poverty struck elementary and middle schools.

They are located in New Orleans; Boston; Washington; Des Moines; Iowa; Portland, Ore; Bridgeport, Conn.; and Lame Deer, Mont. Half of the dropout rate is due to fifteen percent of the nation's schools. Yet fifty percent is less likely to even offer the classes that may help increase the overall academic skills.

Artists from the president's committee plan to bring in programs and raise funds to continue their reign of success after the two years. Spoken with inspiration in mind, Dana Gioia said:

Art is an Irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world. There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.

For more information, visit: Turn Around: Arts

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Learning in and through the arts is foundational to early childhood education. MCFHC is comprised primarily of children from families with multiple challenges that typically are identified as indicators of poor student achievement. The mission of Arts Impact and PSESD is to eliminate the achievement gap by 2020 and insure access to quality education for ALL children. Partnering with MCFHC helps us fulfill that mission. MCFHC has a family centered culture: a place where parents, teachers, and older siblings are involved in a collaborative way to help insure that the pre-school children will be ready for kindergarten. This collaborative approach to education fits well with the Arts Impact model of integrating multiple ways of knowing and showing.

--Sibyl Barnum, Arts Impact Program Director

MCFHC stands for "Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center" and is a non-profit human services agency. The MCFHC is providing support to children and families with any type of background.

Sources:

"Arts Impact" photo (Arts Impacts)

Charlotte Observer

Sharp Brains

Arts Impact

Stereographic Animated GIFs

Stereographic Animated GIFs is an unusual form of art that predates the internet itself. GIF stands for “Graphics Interchange Format” and is a photography animation where two pictures are merged to form an endless cycle of wiggling or twitching. GIFs create a 3-dimensional perspective to 2D photos. 

GIFs were first seen in 1987, but its popularity first exploded in the 1990’s. There’s also something called the wobble image. The difference between The wobble image and GIFs is that in wobble image, both the foreground and the background move like something would look like if you shook your head side to side. 

Dain Fagerholm introduced his first stereographic sketches. Instead of using realistic photos, he has given his own hand-drawn monsters a sense of depth while in reality, they are 2-dimensional. He gave them the chance to live a 3-dimensional life. According to the Daily Dot, Dain said “these ‘characters’ are all creatures that live on Mystery Planet” and "they are my friends." He draws most of his characters with pen and markers and at least half contain gems in them.

Stereographic animations have been around before the internet, as stated before, and arose to extreme heights thanks to the web. Sites like Tumblr and Twitter have been using GIFs for a while because they create a sense of fun, excitement, and enjoyment. 


Since the first GIF was seen, it now celebrates its 25th anniversary. These image file aren’t just for entertainment or personal amusement, but also for businesses and advertising. Instead of GIF, most people have been wondering whether they are pronouncing it right or not. Its been pronounced as “Jiff” with a “J” sound or “Giff” with a “G” sound. The Graphics Interchange Format was introduced by CompuServe back in 1987 and was terrible for photography then.

Watch this video to see a history layout for GIFs!

Sources:

"Friends" photo (two monsters sitting)

"Creature With Amethyst Gem" photo (gemstone monster)

"Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium" video (dinosaur dressed cat)

Artistic Impact on Expression

This is a public display people's artwork that welcomes opinions, criticism, or no judgement at all. This will display art for any to see. This interests me because I believe people should have a look at what people think of about life and it's mysteries. Talent has its own ways to reveal itself to you. 


Connections or astonishment can be perceived from this entry. Not only can pictures interest the viewers, but the publisher as well. All it takes is one picture to describe a lectures worth of time to explain in a simple glimpse. A once famous quote came to life by the mind of Fred Barnard: “A picture is worth a thousand words”. Sometimes, gallery blogs aren’t just for the visual attraction, but for excitement, enjoyment, or education. For people to read this, they sacrifice minutes of their life to learn to look at life in a different perspective. 


As you view the world your way, you may have a complete opposite thought from the the person standing right next to you. To see is one thing, but to look is a far off level. One picture gives the opportunity for self expression. Imagine the impact a gallery could have on someones view, thoughts, or belief. 


People have substituted pictures for words to get the word across in a better yet clearer manner. Some of the most tested ways to provide an opinion or idea occurs in two forms, audible music, and visual pictures. Out of these two, visual appearance has made one of the most impacts. One thing you would learn from this blog is how to view something differently from how you saw it. People try to find the perfect song to describe an emotion being felt at that time. This equally applies to the use of art and can be used in a variety of ways to describe emotions.








Sources:
"Never Give Up" photo (Eye Photo)
"Freedom of Expression" photo