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Roads That Disappear: Drawing in One-Point Perspective

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The Shrinking Road

The Shrinking Road

Have you ever stood at the end of a long, straight road and noticed something strange? The road looks wide near your feet, but far away it seems to get thinner and thinner until it almost disappears at a single point. Train tracks do the same thing. So do long corridors in school. Your eyes are not tricking you — this is how our brains understand distance. Today you are going to learn the secret behind this trick, and use it in your own drawings.

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