HOMEWORK ALERT!

Here's a new homework assignment for you!!

Practice "Foreshortening", the visual distortion that happens when looking at objects from one end. Your challenge is to create a drawing that demonstrates this visual effect.
Draw your legs and feet, or arms and hand to show foreshortening.

Here are some photos for example:

Your drawing should use these "tricks" to make the foreshortened illusion:
1. Parts of the object overlap other areas...
2. Objects close to you appear larger, further away= smaller.
3. Closer objects are in focus, further away = blury

Here are some other photos and drawn examples...

An egg carton from the side- all shapes are the same size and in an even row...

When viewed from the end, the closer side is larger, the top and bottom lines are angled, and the individual "bumps" in the carton overlap each other....

That's foreshortening... Here are some examples in drawings:

Hendrik Goltzius, "The betrayers 3, Phaeto"- this is an etching.

foreshortening simple shapes....

 

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, by Mantegna, 1490

The above piece, by Mantegna, is a great example of foreshortening- except that he shrank the size of the feet! They would appear larger in real life, because they are closer to you. The artist was trying to make the figure not seem abnormal...