PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Perspective Drawing
In this lesson plan, students use line segments, angles, and parallel and perpendicular lines in order to create a one point perspective drawing.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Perspective Drawing Inspired by n.c. Wyeth [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will generate unique fantasy drawings that utilize perspective and create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Deriving inspiration from the American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth's The Giant,...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Perspective Drawing
This site discusses vanishing point and perspective drawing, including tips on drawing from various perspectives.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Shape and Space in Geometry: Plot Plans and Silhouettes
Challenge yourself to write a plot plan of a perspective drawing. This article begins with an example and then challenges you to do one on your own.
Next.cc
Next: Perspective
Explore the principles of perspective by completing these three activities. For further information, click on one of the links provided.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Drawing Three Dimensional Figures
Get independent practice drawing three-dimensional figures. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: My City, My Perspective
A lesson in which learners create a drawing of a local architectural structure using grid and perspective lines.
Other
Inside Penciling Comics: Two Point Perspective
On this website you can learn how two point perspectives are used to create pictures in comic books.
Other
Hop's Gallery: Perspective Study
This webpage explores traditional perspective drawings as well as contemporary drawings, focusing on their use of horizontal and vertical lines.
Goshen College
Learning to Draw by Learning the Basic Seeing Skills
Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.
Goshen College
Learning to Draw by Learning the Basic Seeing Skills
Ideas taken from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" are outlined here. This article discusses seven concepts that students need to be able to do to master the art of drawing.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Studies for the Last Judgment and a Late Crucifixion Drawing
The Last Judgement was a common theme in church art, but Michelangelo's interpretation was entirely novel. His vision of the Apocalypse is a swirling maelstrom, filled with thick-set and muscular naked figures. Traditional symmetry and...
Other
How to Draw and Paint: Learn to Draw
Bob Davies offers free online drawing tutorials and videos. He will demonstrate for you some basic drawing skills and how to draw a variety of different subjects including the human face.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Vanishing Point
MathWorld offers a definition of vanishing point; contains diagrams of one, two, and three point perspective drawings with arrows pointing to the vanishing points.
California State University
A Bird's Eye View
With this lesson plan students will create a chalk drawing of an outdoor scene from a bird's-eye view. Lesson includes links to perspective drawing techniques and examples.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Libraries: Zoos, a Historical Perspective
An online sample of maps, drawings and photographs of zoos from over 30 states and 40 countries.
Other
Art Education: Drawing in One Point Perspective
A fascinating interactive site showing how to use lines in on-point perspective drawings.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 4: 2 D Art
This fourth unit of a course on Art Appreciation looks at different forms of two-dimensional art. Students learn about the invention of paper, early perceptions of drawing, how hatching and cross-hatching were used by Michelangelo,...
Yale University
Yale: The Illusion of the Renaissance
A curriculum unit on perspective, detailing the differences between medieval and Renaissance art. This is designed as a studio art course for 8th grade through high school, and contains some good information and activities. Illustrations...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Shape and Space in Geometry: I Took a Trip on a Train
Think through what you would view as you ride around this park on a train. You are given a topographical view of a park and asked to put the pictures in order of what you would see as you ride around the park.
Other
National Library of Ireland: The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives
Online exhibition draws on the collections of the National Library of Ireland to tell the story of Easter week 1916, when seven Irishmen proclaimed themselves the provisional government of the Republic of Ireland and attempted to throw...
Other
University of Evansville: Art Studio Chalkboard
This site from the University of Evansville is a great place for the aspiring artist to visit. Receive free professional advice and tips on basic drawing techniques. The site focuses on perspective drawing and shading.
Optical Society
Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Perspectives: Powers of 10
A drawing and measuring activity to give students an appreciation of magnitude in powers of ten, and of microscopes. Students draw themselves and an object life-size, and then examine smaller and smaller pieces of their picture.
Other
Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
This award-winning resource draws the reader into a consideration of history as witnessed from multiple perspectives. Discover the mystery of the French and Indian raid on colonial Deerfield, Massachusetts where five cultures clashed in...
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