Hi, Tom here and welcome to my new video
How to Draw a House in 2-Point Perspective
the first step is to draw a horizontal line
towards the top of your page,
next draw two marks on your horizontal line,
one on the left and
one on the right,
these two marks will be the two
vanishing points in this two point
perspective drawing, now from the
vanishing point on the right we can draw
a diagonal line going to the left-hand
side of your page and now we can draw
another diagonal line from the left
vanishing point to the base of your page
where these two diagonal lines cross we
can draw a vertical line which is
straight and vertical like these sides
of your paper
this will be the near corner of the
house we're drawing
next choose the height of the house and
draw a diagonal line from this vertical
line of the corner of the building to
the vanishing point on the right and
then another diagonal line to the
vanishing point on the left
so now we need
another vertical line here to make the
right-hand side of the building the far
right-hand side of the building
so we know where it stops
from the top of this vertical line we
can now find the back of the building by
drawing another diagonal line going to
the left vanishing point, now if we
repeat this process by doing another
vertical line on the left and then
another diagonal line going to the right
vanishing point we get the basic
structure of a two-dimensional building
complete
now we can add some doors and
windows on the right-hand side of this
building, remember that all of the
vertical line stay vertical and all of
the lines on the right of this building
will go to the vanishing point on the
right
so now I have a diagonal line
for the two floors of the
building and I am drawing a sliding door
on the left hand side of the front of
the building, with possibly a window
directly above it,
if I continue the line from the top of
the door to the vanishing point on the
right and then from the top of the
window again to the vanishing point on
the right, then as I add more doors and windows
I can create a more uniform look for all
of these features of the building,
if I draw these both at the same time
and I can line up the lines so it
doesn't look to rough
now for the front of this simple
house that we're drawing we can add
a swimming pool
to do this we need to draw two diagonal
lines from the left vanishing point the
touch the base of the sliding doors that
have drawn at the front right hand side
of this house
and then we need to more diagonal
lines, this time from the right vanishing
point going towards the left and this
will make a rectangle in two-point
perspective in front of our building
next we can give this rectangle
depth by drawing a smaller vertical line
going down from this corner and then another
line going out from the right to give
it a depth on the right as well
we could add a slope here and then
perhaps make this slope into some steps
going into the swimming pool
now we can erase some of the lines so we
don't need at this stage
I think I'll add some other shapes to this
house to make it more complex but you
wouldn't need to do that it's up to you
you can make it more or less complex
so I just need to make sure that all the
vertical lines stay straight and diagonal
lines going to the left vanishing point
or the right vanishing point
now this stage I'll speed up the drawing
a little bit because we've drawn the
basic house
so basically at this state you can just
design your own house by adding or
taking away from this basic block in
two dimensions that we have
the next step is to go over the lines with
a pen, I'll just use a thin black pen
to do this,
next I'll add some color to the
swimming pool and for this I'm using a
watercolour pencil that are just shade in and then
I can make it wet with a brush and then
this sort of pencil turns into watercolour
when you make it wet, but you could
use any sort of coloring material that
you have a hand to color in your drawing
if that's what you'd like
now to make this house by the water
I will draw in some boat piers, basically
diagonal lines from the left vanishing
point going towards the right, I can make
a series of going away and getting
smaller as they go away and then I need to
find out where they all stop, because
I like them to stop at the same distance
so I need a diagonal line from the right
vanishing point and then that was sort
of cut them all up at the same point so
they'll stop at the same length
next I can add some trees and bushes and
maybe a road towards the top of the
horizon and this road can go away
towards the vanishing point on the right
and it will need a bridge on the left
going over another waterway that I'm
going to make on the left as well
now once I have got all
the basics drawn, I will draw over the
pencil lines, I think, with a black pen
again and then add some more of these
watercolor pencils of them using greens
and yellows for the landscape
I'll get the coloring quite loose
because the line drawing is quite
specific, so I want to contrast between
the specific line drawing and the
looseness of the coloration of the image
again I just used some watercolor
pencils and add water color to these
watercolor pencils to make the greens
turn into watercolour
I'll color in the waterways as well, blue
and then add some blue to the sky, but I'm
leaving some shapes in the water on the
right-hand side because I'd like to add
some speed boats going down the water
around the right
this drawing I use some gray paper for
the whole drawing, it's just slightly gray
which means that if i use a soft white
pastel, that I can draw the water spray
and will show up and that should work ok
and then if I just make a mark here, and
here, we'll get an indication of the
water spray from these speed boats
jetting off into the distance
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you next time!