In this unit, we were supposed to create a perspective drawing of a city with cultures. I chose to draw Kaohsiung. To present Kaohsiung, I represented the culture by drawing buildings in Kaohsiung. My artwork was drawn in a two-point perspective because most people used one point perspective to draw their artworks. Since I didn’t want to draw streets, but a bigger picture of the city, I decided to have two vanishing points in my artwork. These two vanishing points were not drawn on the actual paper. I taped two additional pieces of paper at the sides so that the buildings do not totally vanish at the side and the artwork would seem more realistic. In two-point perspective drawings, the rule is that horizontal lines should be going to one of the vanishing points, and vertical lines should be perpendicular to the eye level, or the horizon line. This also means that all vertical lines are parallel to each other. I started off by drawing the 85 building. The structure was challenging to draw into a two-point perspective since it is the main key to create balance in the drawing. After drawing the buildings beside the 85 building, I found out that there was too much space in the sky and made the artwork unbalanced. So, I extended some of the buildings so that there are different sized cubes floating in the sky. This was the favorite part of my artwork because it not only created balance and a sense of unity and harmony to the artwork but also created a movement that the cubes are floating in the sky. For one of the buildings, it had a unique shape. I drew it so it was similar to the tallest hotel next to the 85 building. I actually planned on drawing love river at the left side of the artwork, but I eventually found out that in the map, love river doesn’t exist next to 85 building, so I filled in a color that could best create balance in the drawing. I think I did a good job in value for the cubes and the 85 building, but not for the smaller buildings. I think I used too less water to make value seem natural to others. It was also hard to control where the watercolor was going, so my craftsmanship was not good for this piece of artwork.
There were many things I could improve on in my artwork. For example, I have room for improvement for craftsmanship and value. I could’ve controlled where the watercolor was going so the colors won’t mix together. This also affects the value of my drawing. I will try not to keep redrawing the same places and ruin the value. Also, I had too less signs to show my understanding to perspective drawing. Even though it is a huge picture of Kaohsiung, I still should have included some big signs.
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