Perspective and Perception illusion

Colin Winn, freelance artist - a 48 year old English artist, living and working in Burgundy, France. The vehicle linework illustrations that feature on this site are created create on computer. Technical pens and ink at the drawing board are used to render other images and types of illustrations on this site, mainly line and wash. using gouache, acrylics (often with palette knives - a personal favourite .

OH DEAR

now we have a contradiction, and without the use of perspective drawing, the eye is in two minds, and wants to accept that the third block is still in the row

But the horizontal bars lack perspective also.

The eye has been ' set up '

Simply drawing the third block in front is enough to complete the confusion.

Let us call this one 'Fence'

PERSPECTIVE - PERCEPTION

Perspective, describes the way objects appear to the

Eye (or camera lens for that matter ) It is based on the objects

spatial attributes, dimensions and position

of the view in relation to the object

Perspective explains why objects appear to get smaller as they get further away. This is a very useful

phenomenon, and I expect in ancient times a hunter new without any explanation that the tiny animal in the far distance was really a Mammoth that could feed his whole community for a week.

Artists manipulate this visual expression of perspective

As one of their 'tools' Visual perception has an instinct of what is right, sometimes getting it wrong can be akin to Humor.