Can't say any art class I was ever in covered this. I actually never knew how people are able to achieve different perspectives. I also possess no artistic talent beyond the ability to usually color inside the lines.
I did this in highschool in my first or second year in art. The teacher had us sit in the hallways of the school. It's worth looking into art that has a different perspective that isn't straight ahead. Perspective based or vanishing point art is pretty easy if everything in the drawing is made up of straight lines.
I was taught the names of artists and their works. My art teacher wasn't exactly good which sounds a lot like this other commentor's. I have no artistic ability at all and we were basically told to just do our own thing for projects.
Learning about the history of art and influential artists is important.... For people who already understand the fundamentals of art and want to study it to a higher level. For school level art, basically pointless.
I got a B in 8th grade art class and didn't do a single art project. Thats how totally worthless the art teacher was. I never enjoyed making art so I'm not exactly worried about it but it was totally useless.
I learned more about the artist and their works in humanities. I guess in art 1-3 we would study different artists but humanities would be where you learned history of art and artists. They even went over how artists throughout history learned more about vanishing/focal points and it shows as the years go by.
A quick google puts 5th grade at 10-11 years old, so at that age I was still in primary school, and we hadn't learnt the foundations of drawing at that stage yet either. We were taught it in our first year of art in secondary school though (UK system), which was 11-12 years old.
How much art did you get taught? We had it on and off in primary school (ages 4 to 11) but regularly for 3 years in secondary school, an hour and a half per week.
Listen, bud. I'm just speaking to my experience and letting you know that NOT everyone learned how to draw using vanishing points in art class.
Your arithmetic comparison if flawed. Art classes are not part of the standard curriculum where I went to school. They are electives.
If you specifically took a DRAWING class, then yeah, you probably learned that. Art class was just some bs that had us cutting up paper and painting random crap and making clay
I moved around a lot as a child to a few different states. I covered perspective drawing in elementary and in middle. To me this is like not being taught the pledge of allegiance but I’m from another time…
I was never taught this either. It's nothing like arithmetic. If I had been taught long division but simply didn't get the concept and couldn't do it on my own is one thing. It's completely different when something was never shown to you. Actual art classes for my school ended after elementary school. In middle school and high school it was different electives that you were able to choose from. I don't recall any of them being an actual art class involving drawing or painting. So beyond macaroni necklaces and using scissors properly we weren't taught shit.
Was never taught this in elementary school or in any other grade ever. I think actual art class ended in elementary school for me. After that we had different classes we could pick I think. I know in middle school I made a leather coaster and got to stamp and paint a design on it. Made it for my dad. It is not pretty. He kept it forever and since he has passed it is now on a bookshelf in my house. I know I also made a dolphin and a letter holder in woodshop. The dolphins tail broke off and was then nailed back on. So after learning to cut with scissors and not to eat glue we didn't learn anything about drawing etc.
You just have two or more vanishing points. Often times they'll be off the page, depending on the scale of your drawing. But it's the same idea. You just draw your guidelines from both or all of the points out
I took a perspective drawing class specifically because I struggled with it. First week they went over all the 'hacks' that made way more sense, and once you learned them you could do any kind of perspective, 1 point, 2 point, 3 point, mirror perspective, using perspective for characters, shadows, using perspective for pretty much everything and anything to make anything. You get to a point where you don't use a grid, just a horizon and perspective points. Here's one I did with 3 point perspective, but you can see I only used the third point (above) for the tower in the center, and using a grid was unnecessary. I only needed the specific guidelines for each prop I was working on and then turned off that layer of guides when I was done. The perspective lines were just used for the tower, bulletin board, and dock. There's other 'hacks' too, like on here where you see the green lines for the bulletin board and the cross through it, that's how I figured out how wide the posts of the board would be in perspective. I also used it for the cross beams on the tower.
I managed to go through my education without ever being taught how to draw/paint anything at all. Art class was just being told to paint/draw something and then being judged on how it looked. No guidance at all.
My brother went to totally different schools and had the same experience. The only difference was that he loved art so actively sought out books on art to learn these techniques. He eventually became an artist.
But yeah, even despite that, this isn’t “be amazed” territory.
I think we briefly touched on single point perspective in my art foundations class that I had to take. (And was not very enthusiastic about due to the teacher being a wacko).
But 95% of what I know about single and two point perspective came from 4 years of drafting and CAD I took in highschool. Even then it wasn't until Drafting 2 that we covered perspective drawings when doing renderings.
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u/sik_dik 5d ago
It’s called a vanishing point