All you can see!

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180° Sketching

Workshop GLocation: Purvis Street

Our way to represent the space since « Renaissance » is conditioned to a maximum 30º viewing angle, which is very limited compared to what we are experiencing while sitting in a place, turning the head, and looking up and down. That’s how I started sketching some curvilinear perspective in a very intuitive way, exploring how to represent a scene as in a sphere or as in a cylinder. But I’m also used to fit the elements of a scene into the page, making some distortions, or adding the soundtracks of what I’m hearing while sketching, from the people that are talking to me, to the ringing bells from the church behind, or music of a car passing by…

Learning goals:

We will explore how to represent a panoramic view in a narrow street, telling the particular mood of the place.

In stead of looking only at the architecture, the sketchers aim will be to represent a 180º view fitting the people, the street activity and listening to what is happening : capturing the moment.

1. Curvilinear perspective?1, 2 or 3 vanishing points are heritage of« Renaissance », and works only for a limitedangle of vision.

for a panorama, it doesn’t match anymore withour perception:

one option is to represent the space as seen in a cylinder:

2. Tell a story:We’ll then focus on little details in the street to sketch in 3 frames telling each a small story (10 minutes each).

3. All you can see!It’s time to sketch all together, applying curvilinear perspective into an elaborate drawing mixing the 180º view and the stories, detailing the architecture, the cars, foreground and background, witnessing all we can see.

the horizontals become curves while the verticals arestill straight.