Hi Tom here in this week's Circle Line Art School drawing I'll show you one way to
draw famous buildings around world in five point perspective,
start by drawing a circle and then draw a vertical line through
the center and now draw a diagonal line through the center as well, so that you
have a cross in a circle, next draw a series of curved lines from
the far left to the far right, the lines need to get more curvy as they get
nearer the top edge of the circle, now repeat the series of curved lines to the
bottom edge of the circle,
next draw the same series of curved lines, this time using the vertical line
as a starting point, again the curved lines bend more as they get near the
edge the circumference of the circle, once you have this curved grid in place
we have mapped out the five vanishing points, top, bottom, left, right and center,
the five vanishing points, where parallel lines will look that they meet, now from
the center vanishing point draw a line at the corner of one of the squares of
the sphere using the right and left corners of the
square draw, two new curved lines that meet at the central straight line and
now we have the start of the Eiffel Tower for a base curve on the left and
right and then the basic shape of the tower, which is sort of a thin tall
triangles above the semicircles at the base
and then a few platforms and a series of crosses on the edges one on top of
another, once you have the basic Eiffel Tower we
can draw the next building, start again with a straight line from
the center of the circle, this time we can draw an easier building, the Berlin
TV Tower, a tall tapering spike with a small spherical shape towards the top,
the next drawing starts with an oval on one of the squares, draw two parallel
lines at an angle, then draw a top and a series of curves, like the front of an
oval, and some straight lines in between each layer, on the left of our globe we
don't need a straight line from the center, as we're drawing the Leaning
Tower of Pisa, next in the center we can draw a bigger
building, work out which five point square you are going to use at the top
of the globe and then draw a series of domes of different heights and sizes the
center of each of the domes the centre line as it were of each of the domes
should be in the direction of the centre of our middle of the globe, as we're
drawing St.Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, Saint Basil's Cathedral also has a
prominent spire shape within the cluster of domes,
now on the right use a five point square as a base for a square based pyramid you
could draw two more pyramids behind the first one, then we have drawn three
Egyptian pyramids, next draw a line from the center of our
globe to the right for our next building, it goes to a point and has a curved
shape like a boats sail or perhaps a slice of an apple divides a shape into a
series of parallel lines now we have drawn the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai,
next we can start to draw a building at an angle using our center point to find
the vertical lines, draw a full dome at the top that goes to a short point and
then below the dome draw a wide archway, that also goes to a small point, next
extend the building on its left and right to add some small arches and then
draw two minarets either side of the mausoleum, now we have a simple sketch of
the Taj Mahal in Agra, next use the center point and draw a very long line
to the right, going out of the globe, from this draw a series of thin cylinders, add
more bigger cylinders as it reaches the ground and then we have a quick sketch
of the incredibly tall Burj Khalifa, next draw a series of sail-like shapes sort of
nestled together,
the baseline needs to curve with the globe
and this is a Sydney Opera House, next use the center line and extend a long line,
draw a simple head
and then to outstretched arms, a long gown with folds in its and then we have
a sketch of the Statue of Christ in Rio, next draw another long line
and then draw a head with spikes and a hand reaching up, away from the center of
the globe, draw another fabric gown and a solid looking plinth, now we have a
sketch of the Statue of Liberty,
next on the left we can draw the base of a tall building, using the center of the
globe for the vertical lines, at the top of this building draw a series of curves
on each of the two sides of the building that we can see, now we have a sketch of
the Chrysler Building in New York, we could add a deck of floors too, next in this gap
we could draw another pyramid, this time a stepped pyramid with a series of
narrow steps leading to the top, one of the Mesoamerican Pyramids,
Now between the Chrysler Building and the Leaning Tower of Pisa we could also draw a thin elegant
building with a slight curve on one of the vertical lines and a rectangular
hole towards the top, this is a sketch of the Shanghai World Financial Center, now
over here we have some space to draw another Chinese building, a cone shape
with a series of ovals underneath, getting slightly bigger as they reached the ground,
a quick sketch of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing,
I think I will change the size of this Egyptian Pyramids, it
looks a little bit too small, next we can go over the pencil sketch with a thin black pen,
it is an opportunity to add more detail and definition to the buildings that we
have already drawn,
next, behind the Eiffel Tower we could draw the two towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral, with the
large circular window in between,
I will also draw a sketch of the Colosseum in Rome,
the Petronas Towers of Kuala Lumpur,
and the Wisma 46 Tower in Indonesia,
once you have all the buildings that you want in place you could draw some shadows, just with a
pencil, now this drawing that I'm doing is on gray paper, so I will use a soft
white pastel to add some highlights to some of the buildings and part of the
globe, I'll put a highlight on the dome of the
Taj Mahal the sails of the Sydney Opera House and the edge of the Berlin TV
Tower, I'll add some smaller highlights the
top-left part of the globe, I'll also add some highlights, we can also darken the
bottom-right area of the globe so it looks more solid and three-dimensional,
this drawing took about two hours to draw, but I thought about it a bit
before I did it, hope you have a go and see next time! thanks for watching:)
that art materials I used are a 4B pencil, a thin black pen, a bit of soft white
pastel and a piece of grey paper,
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