You’ll need rulers or some type of straight edge, a pencil and an eraser and a piece of white paper to start.
Draw horizontal line in the center of the paper. Or, you can do what I did and folded the paper in half horizontally. This way, the crease can act as the horizon line. Then, place ruler on one side of the line at the paper’s edge. Trace an angle line to the opposite edge of the paper.
The drawing of the cacti and the road will occur on the angle lines and NOT the horizon line.
We chose to draw saguaro cactus and a dirt road to demonstrate the perspective.
To do this, start on one side of the paper and draw a large cactus that extends from the two angle lines. Continue to draw the cactus towards the left side of the paper. The cactus will get smaller if the student keeps the tip and base of the cactus within the two angle lines.
The road is drawn next. It’s not as precise as the cactus. The two road lines follow the bottom angle line, starting small or close together at the left hand side of the paper (vanishing point) and growing larger as it nears the right hand side of the paper.
To finish up, the students created a background, foreground and desert details. The traced over their pencil lines with a black marker and used a combination of colored pencils and markers to color.
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- Paige Hopkins