Perspective Drawing – New York Public Libary

For our perspective drawing work, we went to the New York public library draw the architectural structure with one perspective point. First off we started with drawing what we see on an (i think) plexiglass. It was difficult because there was nothing to support the plexiglass than your hand. So to remember the place well I took a picture to guide me but not to draw it on from.

After we went back to school, we went over the plexiglass over the paper and draw it on top of it. This allowed us to get an approximate understanding of the area. We weren’t making anything previously same but it was important to keep the lines straight and parallel most the time. Here is the drawing with acetate paper and drawing afterward.


For the lights it was difficult I first came up with only drawing circles but that looked really unrealistic to the area and I decided to build a similar one.

Later on, I decided to do my work on Illustrator, and after I was done with hand drawing, I scanned it and started drawing my lines. Illustrator was difficult and took a lot of time due to drawing so many individual boxes mostly. Every individual box that is on illustrator can be colored and change the strokes or anything all of them are individual pieces. This allowed me to modify the colors better.

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After lines were complete I went over with a gray scale for every single part.

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Doing it on grayscale allows me to, later on, edit it by any color group. But in order to do that I first need to create a color swatches for every single tone.

I used the blend tool in order to create colors swatches for every single color I used.

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And final form in all colors:

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