This is a page of directed study, three 2 minute quick sketches done without the use of a ruler but in pencil in the case of the more detailed one, charcoal, in the case of the other two attempts of understanding two point perspective. Though simplistic looking, the intent was to draw as accurately and correctly as possible the lines and shapes in order to emphasise the different perspective techniques, such as foreshortening since the objects seem to be getting smaller as further away we get from the points where all converging lines meet and closer we get to the vanishing ones. In the preparatory charcoal drawings, the lines are stretched enough to follow the implied lines of the two vanishing points, while also making sure the other lines are not erroneously drawn and respect the implied space conventions.
Although the charcoal sketches are obviously flawed since the objects are portrayed either from above or from a lower than the horizontal line vantage point with no direct relation or connection with one another, they served as preparation for the pencil experiment which does obey rules of parallelism in most of the construction of the objects. Another asset would have been adding a type of shading that would have brought forth the closeness and the distance by use of darker tones in the first case and lighter ones in the latter, as well as patterns of texture which would have given a realistic feel to the pencil drawing.
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