Perspective drawing part 1

Chapter 2 | THE HORIZON

The horizon is best seen when you look out over the sea from the coast or a ship. That transition in the distance between the sea and the sky is always exactly at your eye level! In the first drawing, a figure stands with its head exactly in front of our horizon and therefore exactly at our eye level.

The sea serpent in the next drawing looks like a huge monster because it rises from the water just below the horizon line, so very far away. Instead of the sea, it could also be an endless sandy plain or a vast meadow.

Exercise 1: Draw a horizon line and a figure looking out over the sea or land. Make up another monster in the distance.

Usually we don’t see the horizon at all because there are all sorts of things in front of us in our immediate vicinity. Yet the horizon is always there, somewhere far away behind all those things, in the direction we are looking! In the next drawing, the same figure has to walk another 2 kilometers to the beach to see the horizon (here the red line) again. Almost all objects are ‘cut off/cropped’ by the frame, making it appear as if the space continues beyond the frame.

Exercise 2: draw a light horizon line with a figure in front at our eye level. Draw objects/buildings that completely hide the horizon. In the end you can erase the horizon line.

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Perspective drawing part 1

Chapter 2 | THE HORIZON

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