Minecraft images are shown... Linear perspective is the concept of how nearby objects appear larger and further down from the horizon line, while objects that are further away appear smaller and closer to the horizon line.
Students are introduced to the concepts of perspective through in-class demonstrations and examples done by the teacher.
First students are asked to draw a house, car and tree. Given an minute or two, most students will draw something like illustration A to the left. Next, space indicators are discussed and demonstrated through drawing on the board.
Space indicators are:
After the discussion students draw a house car and tree using space indicators similar to illustration B.
A quick tutorial on how to draw boxes is demonstrated by the teacher. Students follow along drawing, on their paper, what the teacher draws on the board.
The next day students follow along as the teacher demonstrates how to make a simple minecraft landscape in 2-point perspective.
2 point -- Interesting Maze hallways
2 points -- Trees and other objects included
3 points -- Colored or shaded nicely.
3 points -- Correct use of perspective
10 points total
