Hi, Tom here and in this week's Circle Line Art School video I'll show you two
ways to draw a school in one point perspective!
First draw a horizon line across your page,
now draw a simple rectangle, a long rectangle, on the right of your page, the
baseline of the rectangle needs to be below the horizon line and the top
line of the rectangle needs to be above the horizon line,this will be the front
of the school building, next draw two vertical lines to divide this shape into three parts,
now we can draw a line, a vertical line, from the middle of the rectangle, going
up, add two more lines to make this into a simple triangle, now just below the
point of the triangle we can draw another horizontal line for the top of
the roof, next just add the sides of the roof, a sloping roof, I think, of either side,
so that is our basic shape of the first
school building, above the triangle we could draw a short tower, just a square
and in a triangle on top,
next, in the center of the school and on the horizon line, draw a cross, this is our
vanishing point, in one point perspective all parallel lines will look that they
meet at this point on the horizon line, it must be on the horizon to work,
now we can draw a raised step and we can add two vertical lines to make some tall
columns either side of the center of the school,
next we could draw four diagonal lines, from a vanishing point to the base and
top of the first two columns, these are in a way our guidelines that
show us where to place the next inner columns in one point perspective,
once you have the columns in place we can raise the horizon line that goes
through the building,
now we can add a new line for the base of the roof so that it is a little bit
lower, I think that would look better, and that would mean it extends, we just need
to extend the edges of the roof too, so now the tops of the columns are in front
of the bottom of the roof line, you could add some lines to the roof too,
a series of horizontal lines, these lines should stay parallel to each other as
they're not receding, they're not going away from us in perspective,
now we can add a small door in the center base of the school building, if
it's a small door it will make the school building look bigger,
next to add some windows, starts by drawing some horizontal lines across the
school, for the tops and bottoms of each of the
series of windows,
once we have those in place draw some vertical lines, I would start at the edge of the building,
on either side and then just divide more vertical lines to make
a series of rectangles which will be the windows,
you could add a circle for a clock face in the triangle,
now within the windows you could also divide them into even smaller shapes
following the lines through from one window to the next,
we could add a simple flag too,
now if we vanishing point in the middle of the
school, there is one single vanishing point for this one point perspective drawing,
we could draw two new diagonal lines, which follow the lines of the base of the
columns, all the way forwards, to make a simple path from us towards to school,
now, again using our vanishing point, we can draw a more modern school building
on the left, to do this first draw two diagonal lines
going left from the vanishing point,
and then draw a vertical line between these two diagonal lines which is quite
near our original school, now draw two more diagonal lines towards the left,
so you have a top double line, a middle double line and a single bass line, which are
all diagonal lines going towards the vanishing point, once you have that then
we can erase the horizon line that goes through this building as we no longer need it,
now draw another vertical line, quite close to the first vertical line, but much longer,
then we need a horizontal line from the top and base of this new longer vertical
line, going left, this should look like a rectangle, like the start of a rectangle
and it's going to be a wall, but only the edges of this wall are in perspective,
so for that, just draw a line top and bottom going towards the vanishing point,
now draw a vertical line parallel to the first long vertical line, to give this
wall a thickness in one point perspective,
now add two vertical lines in between the double lines on the left and from
the base of these draw a horizontal line going left, we can do the two back parts
too, now add a vertical line and then use the vanishing point to draw the diagonal
lines that we need,
next, find a vertical line from the left point of the wall that we drew, going up,
in this way we have the basic structure we need, a part of the school building in
one point perspective on the left, with two overhanging roof areas and a
protruding partition wall in between, all in one point perspective, so all of the
diagonal lines are all going towards our vanishing point and all of the vertical
and horizontal lines stay vertical and horizontal,
now we have both school buildings in place we can add a few smaller details,
I think I'll divide the wall vertically on the left,
and then add a few horizontal lines too, the horizontal lines are in perspective and
therefore they need to go towards the vanishing point, as they're going to be
getting closer to each other as they go away from us towards the vanishing point,
but the vertical lines, in one point perspective, aren't going away from us, in
any way that we're going to show any perspective in them, you could add a
flagpole in the middle too,
I will copy the first flag that I drew so it's going left in the wind, so we are
sort of looking at the back of the flagpole,
so that we're sort of looking at the back of the flag, now you could add a
path from the new school building to the old school building,
you could also add a line and bushes along the horizon line,
behind both buildings, it's best when you draw this to draw the trees and bushes
slightly below and above the horizon line, but not exactly on them, for this
drawing I'm using a 4b pencil, I'll put a few more tonal values into these trees
and bushes, we don't want the trees on the horizon line because that'd be too
far away, if they're slightly lower than the horizon line then they're slightly
closer to us,
you could also shade in the roof,
and for the windows I'll just shade in using a diagonal tonal line,
so that it looks a little like glass, a glass wall on the new school,
I hope you find this drawing useful for your own drawings,
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