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Perspective Drawing
This unit addresses the following HSC outcomes:
A student:
H3.2 selects and applies appropriate research and problem-solving skills
H5.1 selects and uses communication and information processing skills.
H5.2 selects and applies appropriate documentation techniques to project management.
Extract from Industrial Technology Stage 6 Syllabus © Board of Studies NSW 2008 (for implementation into Preliminary HSC 2009).
It also addresses the following syllabus Industry-Specific Content and Production requirements:
- HSC Course Outcome B - Design and Management - All Focus Areas
Students learn to: "prepare all necessary sketches and working drawings required for the production of the major project."
- HSC Course Outcome C - Workplace Communications - All Focus Areas
Students learn to:"utilise the full range of graphics techniques and standards used in the focus area."
- HSC Course Outcome D - Industry Specific Content and Production
Industrial Technology (Graphics Industries)
Students learn about perspective (mechanical and measuring point) "
Students learn to use appropriate pictorial drawings to illustrate aspects of projects undertaken."
Extract from Industrial Technology Stage 6 Syllabus © Board of Studies NSW 2008 (for implementation into Preliminary HSC 2009).
Perspective drawings are one of the best types of drawings to use to provide a pictorial representation of an object, as they produce an image of an object in three dimensions that is very similar to what the human eye sees. One of the most common uses of perspective drawing is in architecture, where it is used to provide a client, or the public, an image that gives an good representation of how the project will look when it is built.
As well as architecture, perspective drawing is often used in the furniture industry to show clients the final appearance of a piece of furniture they might commission. For example, when a chair is being custom-manufactured at a price of $400 per chair in a set of 8, perspective drawings can be used to show the client how the final chair will appear before commiting to a production run.
The images below show a table as presented to a client for manufacture.
 Source: A Fairbank |
 Source: A Fairbank |
Introduction:
As an object gets further away from a viewer, it appears to be smaller and objects tend to approach a vanishing point as they get further from the viewer. Each person on the perspective grid below is 2m apart. Note that as the people appear smaller, the gap between each person also decreases.
This unit of HSC Online details the principles and techniques of perspective drawing.
Site Index
| Basics of perspective drawing section 1 |
Basics of perspective drawing section 2 |
| More advanced perspective. |
Single point perspective
Single point perspective is commonly used to show streetscapes or interior designs. It is used when one face of the object being viewed is perpendicular to the line of sight from the viewer.
A good example of a single point perspective view is shown in the image below. All lines converge on a single vanishing point.
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Source: http://www.copyrightfreephotos.com/gallery/386901216/ [accessed 13/5/08]
Single Point Perspective Drawing
Two point perspective.
When an object is not directly facing the viewer, it appears to have at least two vanishing points. This type of view is often used in architectural perspective drawings.
Mechanical perspective
How to draw a measuring point perspective drawing.
Furniture is commonly drawn using mechanical perspective.
Measuring Point Perspective
How to draw a mechanical perspective drawing.
Both furniture and buildings are commonly drawn using mechanical perspective.
A combination of single and double point perspective
More complex examples of perspective
Shadows and rendering perspective.
Triple point perspective.
Triple point perspective is used to show the illusion that tall buildings and similar also appear to get narrower as they become further away from the viewer.
Whilst it is possible to draw triple point perspective accurately, the technique is not covered in this webpage. It is expected that high quality Industrial Technology (Graphics Industries) projects might include a triple point perspective drawing if the project is particularly tall. For more detail, the reader is referred to the following texts and websites once the basics are understood.
Architectural Drawing (a visual compendium of types and methods), 2nd edition, Author: Rendow Lee, Wiley, New York, 2003 ISBN: 0-471-05540-9
http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/perspect4.html#3PPcanonical 
http://www.artyfactory.com/perspective_drawing/perspective_7.htm
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