Be sure the DVP is outside your drawing by about half the width of the drawing or more. You should be able to run a line at a 45 degree angle from the DVP to your Station Point. Reminder: Center of vision (CV) and VP must be the same point, but your drawing will be more interesting if the CV is placed off-center within the final borders of the drawing and/or the "camera" is placed closer to one side of the street than the other. Be sure to use the AAA and/or ABA methods wherever appropriate.
Looking at photos of real street scenes may help you to see how foreshortening is extreme near the VP. Far buildings' receding faces will appear very narrow in the distance.
Above and below are some examples of past students' work on this assignment.
In the one above, which earned a B+, there are some problems: not enough care as to line weight, the fact that the shops on the right are too tiny for the people, and the lack of any cross street or street lighting. Also, note that the window washer's left foot is pressed against the wall, so that his left arm and the bucket would have to be somewhere inside the wall! (The same mistake is made in the truly awful, D-level example below with the surf shop: the palm tree is wider than the space available to it. Also notice that the windows are just flat rectangles, flush with the outer wall. Completely unrealistic and unacceptable.)
Please make sure that your buildings are as interesting, detailed, and convincing as the better examples here. That will require some attention to real buildings and photos of same!
And here is one for the class email list for Friday's Section 3.
JH
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