Hi, Tom here, and welcome to this weeks
Circle Line Art School video, How to Draw in 3-Point Perspective,
using three vanishing points,
one looking up, one looking left
and one looking right, the first step in
this drawing is to draw a horizontal
line towards the base of your page, next
draw a vertical line at the center of
your page, now draw a cross at the top of
this vertical line, for the top vanishing
point, next draw two more vanishing
points, one to the right and one to the
left of the horizontal line, now draw a
series of guidelines from the top
vanishing point towards the horizontal
line, these lines will show us see shapes
as they get smaller towards the
vanishing point, so we're looking up
towards the top vanishing point and
these guidelines will help us find where
to put building later on,
next, draw more lines coming from the right vanishing
point towards the center vertical line,
and then we can
repeat this for the third vanishing points on
the left, again the lines go towards the
center vertical line, now we can use all
of these three different types of guide
lines to draw a building in three point
perspective, for this drawing I'm basing
it on the Amber Fort in India, so to
start we're looking up at the first wall,
so I'll start on the right-hand side, so
we're using two vanishing points mainly,
the top vanishing point, which is the one
making us look up and then the vanishing
point on the right which is allowing us
to look to the right at the same time
now we'll also need to use the third
vanishing point, the vanishing points on
the left, for any shapes that will go in
that direction will need to go towards
that vanishing point,
so by darkening some of the guidelines I can create a
building, noticing that the three-point
perspective is actually distorting the
shapes, in a way it's forcing us to see
the building from a certain angle, so
that we're mainly looking up at the
building, but we're sort of a aware at
the same time that we're looking left
and right as well, I'm going to add three
cubes around the base of the building
and also as we're looking up at the
building, it's a good tip to draw the edge
of the roof overhang as well,
sometimes you might need to draw some more
guidelines, as you choose where you want
your building to start and stop,
for this drawing I am using a 2B
mechanical pencil, so the lines will be
quite a bit darker when I press more
firmly with the pencil, in this way I can
see the building develop separately from
the mass of guidelines that I drew at
the beginning,
now I have the three cubes at the base, so I'll draw an arch
in this cube and then draw some lines to
represent the walled path going towards
the arch
now on the side I'll add a wall at a
steep angle, as this fort is on a hill
and that is really why we're using
3-point perspective, so that it'll make
us look up at the fort going away into
the sky and distance, this wall will have
an uneven base, but a straight line for
its top, a double line at the top, to show
the thickness of the wall,
next I can continue this line
along the edge of the fort and now draw
an arch here and then a third arch on the left
now I can add another diagonal wall here
from this cube, again two straight lines
for the top of the wall, but a jagged
line again for the base, as it is built
on the uneven surface of the hill and we
can repeat this again with another wall
here on the far left, we can add the edge
of the hill on the left and right of the
drawing, I think it's time to erase some
of the guidelines that we no longer need,
but I'll keep some of them within the
building because I'm going to add some
windows, to add the windows at the top of
each of the walls, again I'm just using
the guide line to go towards the three
vanishing points and that will help me
find the edge of the windows,
I will shade them in
as I draw, because I'm going to make this
into a tonal drawing, a shaded drawing, on
the Amber Fort there are also some thin
arches embedded within the walls and
I'll add those too, these tall shapes will
help make the drawing look even more
dramatic,
we can now shade in the roof overhangs,
they'll be in shadow because generally
the Sun is high up and therefore things
that overhang are in shade and that
will help create the sense of solidity
to the building as well,
I also shade in the inside parts of each
of the arches, for the walls I'm going to
choose to make the right-hand side of each
of the wall a tonal shade, it does not matter if
you used left or right hand side but just
one side of each of the walls could be
at tone, now I can add some broken
shadows and shapes to this rocky hill to
give it some sort of illusion of texture,
nothing too much, we could also add some
steps to the fort here between these two
walls that go up the hill; Thank You very
much for watching this drawing, I hope
you find it useful for your own drawings,
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time - bye