Roy Mullins

Standing in the Shoes of Renaissance Masters

In preparing the drawing for the “Standing in the Shoes” assignment I utilized the information I found at the “Leonardo’s Perspective” (http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeonardosPerspective.html) website.
Before I began drawing, I laid out the page with a horizon line, a vanishing point and Orthogonals to help arrange the elements I would include in the drawing. I utilized a protractor and ruler to prepare the page for the drawing. With these guidelines in place I drew in the two human figures (shepherds) using the orthogonals to maintain perspective and relative size. I then drew in the country church near the vanishing point and added the rocky path to further demonstrate the effect of perspective in establishing distance in a drawing.
In order to further establish distance I added some pencil to the sky and near the horizon and rubbed it in to load up the color of the ground near the horizon and sky. This “haziness” reinforces the eyes perception of distance.