Hi, Tom here in this week's Circle Line Art School drawing I'll show you one way
to draw a chair using two point perspective to start a drawing in two point perspective
we need to draw the horizon line which is the line that shows the height of our eye level
for this drawing the chair is going to be above and below the horizon line because we're going
to look up to it and down at it at the same time but before we do that we need two points as the
two vanishing points far apart from each other in perspective drawing a vanishing point is where two
parallel lines would look like they meet on the horizon and then we can start by drawing
a dot towards the base of the page somewhere right of center so from this dot at the base
of the paper that represents the front corner of the base of the nearest chair leg we need one line
going to the left vanishing point and then we need a second line going to the right vanishing point
and then we can add a third perspective line going to the vanishing point on the right
and a fourth perspective line going to the vanishing point on the left
and in that way we've made a square in perspective
which is on the floor which is mapping out where the chair legs of this chair will be
next we can draw the front nearest part of the chair as a vertical line from the bottom
corner of the square in perspective and then from the top of this line we can draw a perspective
line going to left vanishing point and then we can draw another vertical line on the left corner
a vertical line on the right corner a perspective line to the right vanishing point
and then by adding two more perspective lines to the left and right vanishing points
then we have created a cube in two-point perspective
we can give this cube the top surface of the cube a thickness adding two more lines going to the
left and right vanishing points just below the top two lines and that will be the seat of the chair
next we can work out the thickness of the chair for the front chair leg we're seeing it's going
left and going right so we've got two sides to draw either side of the original vertical line
using the same sort of thickness may be slightly thinner we can draw another vertical line on the
left for the left chair leg and again we're seeing two sides of the chair leg one going to the left
then the other side going to the right and we're building up this chair from the
square in perspective on the ground so we need to work out the base of the chair
legs and then we can draw the lines the vertical lines to make it into the cell leg that we need
next we can just repeat this on the right hand side
so again another parallel vertical line matching up with the first vertical line on the right
and then the base of the chair leg the left hand side will go to the left vanishing point and then
the right hand side will go to the right vanishing point and then we can draw another vertical line
now it might be helpful just to draw a guideline between the base of the
cell eggs on the ground on the floor and then that will help us work out the base of the chair leg
at the further distance in this cube
so now we have the base sort of footprint of the chair leg at the back we can draw the center
vertical line and then darken the baseline of the chair leg and then the left line and the right
vertical line too depending on what angle you're looking at the chair you might find that this
chair leg is behind a chair leg that's in front of it it just depends where you've
placed the vanishing points and the initial dots for the corner of the nearest chair leg
we can continue the line in the middle of the chair leg on the right going up further
to make the back of the chair which will be a height which is above the horizon line so
anything below the horizon line we're looking down at but anything above the
horizon line we're looking up at because the horizon line is also our eye line
so we can draw another vertical line following up from the far right vertical line of the chair
at the top of the back of the chair it will recede to the right because it's going right
and then we can draw another perspective line to the left vanishing point for the top back of the
chair going left and then using the middle line first of the back chair leg we can continue that
up and then draw a line either side of it for the left and right hand side of that part of the chair
next we can use the vanishing point on the left to draw a guideline so that we can work out where the
back of the chair stops in relation to the seat of the chair in this two point perspective drawing
so in this drawing all lines that are receding are going to either the left
or the right vanishing point and all vertical lines are definitely staying totally vertical
next we can draw some slats at the back of the chair I think I'll do one at the top
maybe not quite at the top a little bit lower down now because i've drawn this a little bit
lower down it means I can have a receding line just above it going to the right vanishing point
because we're looking up at the back of the seat we can draw the underneath of it
using the left vanishing point but the actual seat of the chair that's below the horizon line
so we're looking down at that next we can draw one more slat for the back of the chair but this one
is going to be two lines which are going to the left vanishing point and they are above
and below the horizon line so because they're so close to the horizon line they're almost
parallel horizontal lines but not quite they just taper a little bit as they go left
but it means that we're not looking at the thickness of it we can't see that because
it's so close to the horizon at this stage you might want to darken some of the lines that
you've drawn and just check for their accuracy and then use an eraser to erase some of the
guidelines that we no longer need so that's one way to draw a three-dimensional chair using
two-point perspective so the back line of the chair we can make that continuous just by erasing
a couple of little lines I think I'll just finish this drawing by adding a few more things to it
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