If you are looking out from a high vantage point, your horizon line could actually be in the sky. To find the horizon line, hold the stick or pencil out horizontally as straight as possible in front of you at your eye level. I use the different colored markings to measure and compare proportions of items in my picture. This dowel is about 12 inches long, with different colored marked lines for every inch.
I use a square edge dowel that is marked off with colored lines at one-quarter inch intervals. To do this, you will need a straight object like a pencil or flat sided stick for measuring. The first thing that you should do after you prepare your canvas is find the horizon line. Or, you will be disappointed at the results and not realize why it just doesn’t look right. It’s very tempting to just throw some paint on the canvas and guess at the proportions, but you will end up spending more time scraping paint off and redoing your work if you don’t.
#Horizon line picture how to#
Understanding how to find the horizon line and to line up buildings and other objects properly to get the correct perspective is something that a lot of artists forget to do once they set up their easels. However, to properly figure out vanishing points, aerial perspective, and reflections, you must know where your horizon line is. In many contexts, especially perspective drawing, the curvature of the Earth is disregarded and the horizon is considered the theoretical line to which points on any horizontal plane converge (when projected onto the picture plane) as their distance from the observer increases. Perspective is a very important thing to grasp if you are a landscape painter, or for that matter, for any type of subject, even still life.
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