Create 3D Art
The first anaglyph images were created in the 1800s. Anaglyph art consists of a picture with two slightly offset and identical superimposed drawings in contrasting colours, usually red and cyan. This creates a three-dimensional effect when viewed through glasses with matching colour filters. This is one of the oldest forms of 3D image technology.
Transform your drawings into 3d Art! Then make a pair of 3D glasses to make them pop!
What you need:
- Blank sheets of paper
- Different shades of red and blue/cyan coloured pencils, markers, or crayons
- Pencil
- Tracing Paper
- 3D glasses
If you do not already own a pair of 3D glasses, you can make a pair from cardstock paper, with one red lens and one blue/cyan lens. The lenses can be cut from the coloured plastic covers used to cover school exercise books.
Get creative!
- First, test out the different red and blue coloured pencils to find the colours which match the colour of your lenses. How?
- Draw a red line on a piece of blank paper. The red line must disappear when you look at it through the red lens and should turn dark when you look at it through the blue lens.
- Repeat step 2 using the blue colour. The blue line must disappear when you look at it through the blue lens and should turn dark when you look at it through a red lens.
- Choose what you want to draw. Draw its outline on a blank sheet of paper. (Drawing 1)
- Go over the lines of Drawing 1 using a red colour.
- Place a sheet of tracing paper on top of Drawing 1 and copy the drawing. (Drawing 2)
- Now move the tracing paper 2mm to the right. Use masking tape to hold it in place.
- Use your pencil to trace over Drawing 2. This should leave an indentation mark next to Drawing 1. (Drawing 3)
- Go over the indentation marks of Drawing 3 using a blue colour.
- Look through your 3D glasses to see your drawing pop!
Hint: If your neighbourhood stationery has in stock, you can also use red and blue carbon paper (karta saħħara) to create an exact copy of your drawing more easily.
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