Drawing and Perspective

Here are a few of my projects for my drawing and perspective class. The first is a still life. We had to select items that complemented each other, arrange them and draw the basic geometric shapes. Then we had to draw the negative space, and finally put it all together and render it using a 7 tone scale. I got 90/100, because there could have been a bit more contrast to better define my objects.

Our second project was to draw a room in our house in 1 point perspective. We also had to throw in clutter and something that is not in our room of choice. The teacher’s example was of his bedroom with a dragon’s tail sticking out from under the bed. I chose to draw our living room, looking out onto the balcony with a giant toy robot walking past outside. I almost forgot about the clutter, and kinda tossed some in at the last minute. I got 85/100 on this project, because the shading was a little rushed, and kinda got sketchy.
We had to draw out all of our guidelines in one colour (using col-erase pencils) and then go over it with the good lines in a different colour. This is on 18″ x 24″ cartridge paper.

And to wrap things up, here is the project that was due today. We had to draw a mad scientist’s lab in 2 point perspective. Again this is on 18″ x 24″ cartridge paper, using col-erase pencils. I did all the rough line work in red, and used brown to finish it up.
A lot of the other students in my class went with what I would think of as an absent minded professor’s lab. Their work wasn’t bad, just not what I’d consider to be a mad scientist’s workspace. There were ones with big computers, complicated networks of test tubes, wires hanging about, but nothing that screams “mad scientist.” So I went with (what I thought was) the ultimate mad scientist.
I still had big computers, but they’re very out dated. I put in a lot of chaos, like broken test tubes, a busted chair, surgical tools strewn about the floor, one of his massive computers tipped over, and a trail of blood leading from the “operation table” in the middle of the room, to the garbage chute in the wall. There are also some things that I thought would make the viewer think that the mad scientist was truly mad. There’s a car battery, with jumper cables, by the operation table, a tally scratched into the wall by the garbage chute, and meat hooks hanging on a rod that sticks out of the wall. Anyways, I’ll shut up now, here it is: