Overlap This
is the most basic way to indicate distance to the viewer--one object
overlaps another.
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Linear
Perspective Linear
perspective
helps us give any object proper size and placement, as well as keep
all our shapes and receding lines in correct proportion to each
other. The general rule here is that parallel lines
that recede will always appear to meet at a vanishing point somewhere
on the horizon (eye level of the viewer). For one example,
you can see the road edges moving closer together as they recede.
The vanishing point shifts when the road changes direction.
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Color The
earth's atmosphere fuzzes up how we see things over distance. For
this reason, distant objects appear differently to us than nearby
objects. For this reason, we have the concepts of aerial
perspective. Warm
colors tend to move closer, and cool colors tend to recede. Also
bright colors tend to be in the foreground, and dull down as they
recede. If you look at the flowers in this example,
you can see that they get duller as they recede.
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Detail Following
the concepts of aerial perspective, there is usually more detail
in the foreground and less in the background. In this example,
note more detail on the foreground shed when compared to the shed
in the distance.
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Edge In
aerial perspective, edges in the foreground are sharper, edges in
the distance are fuzzier. Here, you see sharper edges of the
shed compared to the fuzzy edge of the hill behind it.
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Value In
aerial perspective, dark values tend to move forward, and light
values recede. Here, you can see a shift in values between
the closer ridge and the farther ridge.
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