Thumbnail Practise: 1 Point Perspective

 I practised drawing thumbnails, trying to design interesting landscapes focused on perspectives, horizon lines and vanishing points. 

To start I drew a box 16x8cm and filled it with 12 smaller boxes of varied size, making sure to draw some boxes portrait and some landscape to design an interesting layout on the page to work with. Afterwards, I went through each box, drawing in a horizon line, some straight through the middle of the box and others slanted or placed higher or lower in the boxes. Once my horizon lines were drawn, I placed a single vanishing point on the horizon lines indicating where the perspective should be aiming for and where the point of view shrinks and vanishes from sight. The final step before I could start jotting down ideas for landscapes was to then, draw 'C' curves and 'S' curves from the vanishing points to random points in the boxes to give insight to the distance and perspectives within the thumbnails.

I think my designs were all okay and fairly interesting but, I think a few are a little difficult to understand and aren't entirely clear. I did found the use of clouds and trees in the different thumbnails to be really helpful in showing heights of buildings and different structures. I feel like I could have worked more on silhouettes across the horizon lines making up interesting shapes, as it would have given more character to the environments. As well as, placements of things like the sun and moon which appear in some thumbnails. As I think I should've used them to highlight key structures and focal points in the scenes. Which I think I did well in one of the thumbnails at the bottom of the page as I used the sun and clouds to draw the viewer's attention to the town or city on the horizon.  There was another thumbnail in which I made a huge city stretch and included two suns which I think was a fun concept, though I'm not sure how much I like it. 

In the thumbnails with a tilted horizon I ended just tilting my book to make the horizon lines normal again, which I think was the right thing to do. It made drawing structures and objects within the landscapes a lot easier and simpler to draw. 

Overall I think I did an alright job. This was really good practise but, in the future I want to pay more attention to interesting silhouettes, the placement of large well known things like the sun to attract attention to key points and the positioning of familiar objects to determine heights and distance of things in the scene.