Pencil Pens Ink wash DEVELOP YOUR FISH-EYE ART SKILLS

Look as far as you can to your right and to your left without turning your head. Now do it again but looking up and down. Everything you can see in front of you without turning your head makes up your “field of view.” What if you were try to draw every single thing in that space? How do you reconcile all of that information within the confines of a rectangular picture plane?

Years ago, when I first started doing sketches from life, I was trying to draw a row of buildings from across the street. I wanted to include everything I could see; the whole city block. I sketched the top and bottom edges of the buildings parallel to the horizon but it just