. Free-hand drawing : a manual for teachers and students. Fig. 41. A Serious Distortion of All at the Left of AB. considered is the visual angle formed by the subject; but to showhow the rules apply to interiors and exteriors, the following illustra-tions are given. Fig. 41 is a perspective representing one wall of a room whichvanishes to the right. The lines perpendicular to the wall vanishat point CV\x\ AB \ therefore, the drawing is unsatisfactory, for all I04 FREE-HAND DRAWING. at the left of AB is outside of both vanishing points, and mostunpleasantly distorted. Fig. 36 shows the same dis
. Free-hand drawing : a manual for teachers and students. Fig. 41. A Serious Distortion of All at the Left of AB. considered is the visual angle formed by the subject; but to showhow the rules apply to interiors and exteriors, the following illustra-tions are given. Fig. 41 is a perspective representing one wall of a room whichvanishes to the right. The lines perpendicular to the wall vanishat point CV\x\ AB \ therefore, the drawing is unsatisfactory, for all I04 FREE-HAND DRAWING. at the left of AB is outside of both vanishing points, and mostunpleasantly distorted. Fig. 36 shows the same distortion in theleft part of the bureau. The station-point from which Fig. 41 willnot appear distorted is about 2^ from CV. If this wall is to be represented by converging lines, the station-point must be about opposite the end of the room, and nothing at the. Fig. 42. A Satisfactory Representation of One Wall. left of the left vanishing point can be shown. Fig. 42 representsthe wall when thus seen and is a satisfactory drawing. Like anyperspective it requires, however, to produce the same image as theobject, to be seen from the station-point, which is about 2^ fromthe centre of the picture. When viewed naturally the perspective isunpleasant though not distorted as in Fig. 41. The wall may be represented as seen from a station-point aboutopposite the centre of the wall. The resulting drawing. Fig. 43, issatisfactory, though, as already shown, it does not represent the SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE AND MODEL DRAWING. 105 appearance of the objects in the room unless the eye is at the station-point, which, in Fig. 43, is about 3 from the paper, and oppositepoint CV. It gives, however, the positions of the objects withreference to the wall, and is often the best representation that canbe made. Fig. 44 represents two walls of a room as they are often i
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