If you're looking for the best step by step tutorial videos for teaching middle school students to use linear perspective, then you are going to love this! Using a vanishing point and lines can help create the very realistic looking illusion of SPACE.
Here is a great introductory video to discuss and introduce your students to how SPACE is viewed in our world:
To carry this introduction one step further, here is a video that breaks it down into the six different ways to create the illusion of SPACE:
Now, my students understand the concepts of overlapping, size, placement on the page, detail, and color and value. These can be taught fairly easily! Linear perspective, however, is a VERY different story! That is why I compiled these videos. Here they are, all in one place, to help guide your students through this tricky task. I watched hours and hours of videos and picked these specific ones because they are clear and easy to follow.
One major difference I noticed in these videos, is that some require the use of a straight edge/ruler and some freehand the lines. For the average middle school student, I would definitely suggest using a straight edge, at least until they grow a bit more confident. If your students are above average in drawing ability, then perhaps you should try the freehand method.
So, it comes down to this. How much time you are going to spend on linear perspective? Maybe your time is very limited and you only have time for your students to have a quick overview of how and what linear perspective looks like. Then this video is for you!
If you have more time, and you want your students to complete a drawing of their own, then here are a few videos for you to choose from using one-point perspective. Each video completes a drawing.
If you want to go a bit further, then the next step would be the two-point perspective technique. This can get more complex quickly, but I found this video, which is a very simple and easy step by step for the average student.
Perhaps you have a more advanced group of students. Here is a more advanced step by step tutorial.
One sure way to get even the toughest student interested is to show them something they think is "cool" or "fun". Here are two videos for you and your students who want to take it a little further and/or just want to have fun.
And this is my favorite and just in time for Halloween!
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