Two Point Perspective
In response to multiple suggestions from students in our team, our teacher decided to teach us more "traditional" art techniques. He started by teaching us about perspective. He walked us through simple 1, 2, 3, and even 5 point perspective drawings. Below is my work through of his tutorials:
After learning the basics of perspective, our teacher assigned us to create big 2 point perspective drawings of our own for practice and mastery. Throughout the time we were working on these, he also did mini workshops about other art techniques like shading, shadows, colours, and lines.
My Process/Picture
As soon as we got time to work on our drawings, I began to create a picture using two point perspective I had been envisioning in my mind for a long time: a book. Whenever I saw a two point drawing of a building or something where the picture is under the horizon line, I saw a book. Specifically one slightly open and standing vertically up. Unfortunately, soon after beginning to work on it, I realized the connection was not too strong and there was not much I could do to make it a book (I realize now that I probably could've done it and should've tried harder but I didn't so...). This made me quite sad and frustrated so I threw my drawing away (which is why I don;t have a photo) and tried to think of another idea. I spent a whole class trying to think of something unique and different and fun to draw and, to say the least, I didn't. You can imagine that, at this point, I was quite childishly frustrated so I decided "Screw this perspective thing, I'm doing my own art.". And that's what I did. I just started doodling a picture of my own that had nothing to do with perspective. I doodled the following picture on the back of a math sheet:
After doing this, I stepped back (metaphorically) and looked back at the picture and thought "Hey! I can go places with this picture!". So, I decided to transfer it to a big paper. So I started on that. I worked on it for a couple of days and it turned out something like this:
It didn't turn out quite at all how I wish it had. I sometimes have this tendency to accidentally add too much to a picture (such as colour) until it doesn't look too good anymore. So yay. I had a big picture of random that had nothing to do with what I was supposed to be doing (perspective) and I didn't even like it too much. Now, I would like you, the reader, to know that I wasn't totally neglecting or not caring about what we were supposed to be doing, I was just blindly frustrated with it and was choosing not to do the perspective part. I was, though, still taking the shading, line, shadows, etc.. lessons that the teacher was teaching us in and using them in my picture. I really did learn a lot about that and I still use it now which makes my art ten times better! Anyways, I was stuck with this picture and nothing to show for two point perspective... I decided then to put my pride in uniqueness aside and just create a regular building drawing. I began this and just drew and drew. I experimented a little with perspective (for example, how a building drawn on the perspective point would look) and ended up with this picture:
As you can see, it has a giant monster creature "thing" in the centre. I really don;t remember how that happened but I must have drawn it when I was bored. One thing about me is that I can turn almost any line or squiggle or stray mark into a creature or picture so that must have been the product of some stray line. :).