Exercise 4.2 Find Common Horizontal and Vertical lines.

For this exercise, you will be searching for and identifying features or significant points that line up horizontally and vertically in an image. You will be working off the image below of the kitchen and adding lines and arrows similar to the image of fruit below. The instructions will be slightly different than what you see in the fruit image.

Materials needed:

Depending on if you have a printer or not, there are two different options available.

Option #1 – Preferred

• 4B pencil, Sharpie, or ball point pen – any type of pen that will show up on printer paper.
• A 8.5X11 inch print of the below kitchen image (in color or black and white) – The print should be as big as possible on the paper with minimum margins. For the exercise, you will add the necessary lines to the printed image and take a photo of it. Make sure all added lines show up on the image after you take a photo of it.

Option #2 This may work if you do not have a printer, however, it may be less precise and hard to fit everything. Keep it neat.

• Viewfinder and erasable marker
• Have the kitchen image pulled up on a computer monitor. Line up and place the viewfinder over the image on the monitor. Make sure the image is as large as possible in the viewfinder window. Draw the needed information on the viewfinder with your wet or dry marker.  Take a photo of your monitor with the viewfinder aligned and attached with the finished work on it.

Time to complete: 20 minutes. Use the full 20 minutes to work on this exercise.

Instructions:

Find at least 10 features that line up in the below image of the kitchen – 5 horizontally and 5 vertically (not any other direction). Draw lines connecting the objects that line up and mark the points of contact with an arrow and a number. The above example of the fruit shows how the finished image should look (note there are not as many lines in the example as are needed for this exercise – you will have more). Don’t concentrate solely on the objects on the counter. Look at the area as a whole.

Group the photo of your finished image with exercises 4.2-4.5 in one file when submitting your work. Do not submit exercises 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5 as individual files. If using a viewfinder, take individual images of each exercise and combine them into one file.