Hi, Tom here with this week's Circle Line Art School video, in this video I'll show you
one way to draw two-point perspective, a cinema at night, art materials used in
this video are a 4B pencil for drawing and a white pastel and gray paper, used
for tone and highlights later on, for drawing perspective we need to start
with a straight line for the horizon and for this drawing we need the horizon to
be low down on the page, for two-point perspective we need two vanishing points
on this horizon, one on the left and one on the far right, next draw a vertical
line for the nearest corner of our building,
now draw a line from the top of this vertical line to the vanishing point on the right,
and then another diagonal line to the vanishing point
on the left, these lines are the top of the building and the walls of the right
and left of the building too, next, draw a vertical line on the right and another
on the left for the edge of the building, so we got the middle of the building, the
first vertical line and then we've got the right hand side and the left hand side of the building,
now we can draw another diagonal line to the right and then two
vertical lines from the top of the building down to this diagonal line,
to make it sort of cut out part of the building, next from this point on the
right we can find the left side of the building here by drawing a diagonal line
from this point all the way to the left vanishing point,
next to draw a sort of roof canopy around the building we need to draw a
diagonal to the right vanishing point and then to the left vanishing point and
then we can repeat these two diagonals a little bit lower down,
at this point here we need a line to the left and we find that by drawing a
diagonal line all the way from the right vanishing point, just to find this little
line, next we can repeat this process and find the edge of the roof canopy on the
right, but this time we're going to use the left vanishing point,
next we can erase some of the guidelines that we no longer need,
now we can draw a point on the left for the taller part of the building,
from this point we can draw a diagonal line to the right vanishing point and then
another one to the left, for the right and left sides of the wall,
we can choose a vertical line about here for the edge of the building,
now we need a vertical line for the nearest corner of this part of the building,
we can stop this line a little bit short, this vertical line, and take the base
of it, as a diagonal line going to the right vanishing point, but we only need
the first part of the line, but it's good to draw or visualize that line going all
the way to the vanishing point so we get the right angle,
now from the right-hand point of this little short line that we've just drawn,
we can draw an upright and that will make this part of the building look like
it's jutting out towards the left,
the base of this block, which we are looking
up to, we just need to draw some lines going to the vanishing point on the left,
to give it a solid base, and now we can use the vanishing point on the right for
the left line of the base, then we just need a vertical line for
the left part of the building,
we can erase a few more of the guidelines now that we no longer need
next we can divide the canopy into narrow panels using the vanishing
points, this is because they are parallel lines, the panels that we draw are
parallel lines and in perspective all parallel lines will go to a vanishing
point and in two-point perspective we can use two vanishing points, one when
we're looking towards the right and then one when we're looking towards the left,
now at this point here below the canopy we could divide the lower part into a
series of doors, getting closer together as they go towards the vanishing point,
we could divide the left-hand side into a series of doors as well,
and we could cut out a block, on this big part of the building on the left here,
just by drawing two vertical lines and then a diagonal line for the base of it,
going to the left vanishing point and then the little line on the right, we
need that to go all the way to the right vanishing point to get the right
direction of the line,
again we can erase this line here at the top as we no longer need it,
it is time to add a tonal values to this drawing, for this drawing I'm using a 4B pencil
on gray paper, I will add flat tones and graded tones to, so tones that go from
dark to a lighter tone, in a gradual way, and I'll also use some soft white pastel
for the highlights and they're going to show up because the paper isn't white,
it's just slightly gray, so if you're not using gray paper you don't need to use
the white pastel, but you should still have a nice dramatic drawing at the end of this,
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