Hi Tom here in this week's Circle Line Art School video I'll show you one way to
draw a house and a line of trees in one point perspective,
first draw a horizontal line cross your page, which needs to be lower than the
middle height of the paper that you're drawing on, on this horizon line draw a
cross for the vanishing point on the far right, now draw a horizontal line
below the horizon on the left and add some more lines to make it into a
rectangle, which is longer than it is high and the top of the rectangle needs
to be above the horizon line and the base of the rectangle needs to be below
the horizon line, once you have this long rectangle we can draw two more vertical
lines so that the rectangles divided into three equal parts, now the side of
the house, the side that's going away from us, that's visually going away from us,
will be going towards our vanishing point on the right, so we can draw two
diagonal lines from the right vertical of the rectangle
to all the way to our vanishing point, now we can choose how far back we want
the house to recede on the right and once you've chosen that just draw a
vertical line between the two diagonal lines that go to the vanishing point to
show the position of the back of the house,
next we can draw a new horizontal line, sort of above the main structure of the
house, to show the height of the highest part of the roof and now draw two
triangles, one on the right and one on the left, leaving a gap in the middle,
next draw a line for the side of the roof from the top of the
triangles to the vanishing point, this shows what the roof looks like,
because we're looking at the side of the roof in perspective, therefore we need to
use our vanishing point to show us where those lines go, we can also draw a line
from the corner here and then another
from this corner here to the vanishing point, we can draw a vertical line here
then add a horizontal line at the top and the bottom towards the right, which
is a wall between the two wings of the house, which is at the front wall of the
house, we can darken some of the lines here to see what we need to keep, for
this drawing I'm using a 4b pencil,
next draw a line a horizontal line along the back of the roof going right across to the right,
now draw a new triangle on the right of the house,
using the diagonal line that goes to the vanishing point as like the base of the
triangle and then it will be a triangle in perspective, in one point perspective,
now draw two diagonal lines that connect the roof together,
we can now erase some of the guidelines longer need,
next let's add a chimney, first draw a tall thin rectangle that goes above the
top of the roof, it starts below the line of the roof but then it goes above the
line of the roof, from this we can draw a diagonal line all the way to the vanishing point,
now we can use the angle of the pitch of the roof to find the diagonal baseline
of the chimney,
you could add a series of chimney-pots on top, again they're going away in one
point perspective, because they're parallel to the edge of the building,
next we can draw in some windows, just use horizontal and vertical lines, it's a
good idea to line them up, so I tend to just follow the lines across, reading them across,
in one-point perspective the front of
the house will be made just from rectangles and triangles and all the
rectangles will have 90-degree angles to them, because they're not going to be
distorted by perspective, so that we start to get the structure of the house
in one point perspective, so any of the shapes of the house that are going away
from us on the right will be going to our one single vanishing point because
all these lines are parallel to each other,
you can follow the lines around the corner here, so you go up to the corner
and then, as they go on the sidewall, we can use our vanishing point to find the
line of the windows, if the line continued, go all the way to the
vanishing point, because it's on the side of the house,
although the door is in the middle of this house, I think it will look more
like it's on the right of the center part of the house, this is because the
right wing of the house is sort of coming forwards, so in a way it's hiding
the middle part of the house and that in turn makes the door which is in the
middle, it sort of loses its right-hand side, because of the right wing of the
house is coming forward and hiding it,
you could add some diamond patterns at the top triangles of the roof and some
smaller details, it takes a while to put in all the
windows, I'll speed up the drawing here, but basically we're just drawing some
small panes of glass in the windows, by dividing them up horizontally and
vertically in an even way, the lines on the roof that are going away from us
will again all end up at our vanishing point, you could add some tonal values
for the right-hand side of the chimney, the right-hand sight of the chimney pots,
on the right-hand side of the house - as I'm imagining the Sun is on the left in
the sky somewhere, once you have the house complete we can use our vanishing
point to draw a row of trees in one point perspective, I think I'll draw a
row of poplar trees, first draw a baseline for the trees, just a diagonal line
from our vanishing point going to the bottom of the page, but sort of leaning
across to the left, next we can draw another diagonal line, this time slightly
higher than the first line and between these two lines we can start to draw a
series of short tree trunks, getting smaller and closer together as
they go away from us and they go towards the horizon and indeed the vanishing
point, next draw a diagonal line from the horizon, going high up to the sky towards
the left and this will form the top height of our line of trees,
now we can just sketch in some taller tree shapes, starting on the nearest tree
on the left and making sure each tree starts at the tree trunk and stops
roughly at the top diagonals line that we just drew, so now we have a line of
trees in one point perspective, all the same height but getting smaller as they
recede from us,
next we can add some tonal values and texture to each tree and because the
light is coming from the left we can make the right-hand side of each tree
slightly darker than the left,
once the line of trees are sketched in, we could add some thin shadows to the
right of each tree going along the ground, now to finish this drawing I will
sketch in some plants, with lots of short little marks, making groups of marks to
indicate plants, we could also add a path on the right of the line of the poplar
trees, just draw two thin lines from the vanishing point coming down to the base
of the page, we could also add a few marks on the
horizon, far away, maybe just to indicate a town in the distance, now this
town is so far away that any buildings would just need to be indicated,
we wouldn't need to draw any detail at all,
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