Hi, Tom here and welcome to my new video,
How to Draw a View of Venice in
1-Point Perspective, for this drawing I use
a 4B pencil throughout,
any soft pencil would do, any soft pencil where
you can make her dark black tonal grade
would be an excellent for this drawing,
So the first step in this drawing is
to draw a horizontal line slightly lower
than the middle point of your page and
then to put a cross on a horizontal line
for the vanishing point, the next step is
to two diagonal lines from this
vanishing point, this cross towards the
right hand side of the page and this
will be one of the sides of the canal
with all the buildings on the right hand side,
and then we need two more diagonal
lines going to the vanishing point, this time they are
going from the vanishing point, going left,
and they will be the other wall of buildings,
now on the left-hand side
I can add another diagonal line to show
you where some of the windows along this
wall would go, and then I can start to
add some vertical lines that get slightly
close to each other as they go towards
the vanishing point, the point in the
center, so on the left-hand side of this
drawing, along this continuous wall that
we have a moment, which will actually be
a series of buildings by the time the
drawing is finished
we're not really going to see too much
detail to the buildings apart from
towards the far left of the drawing,
where the buildings are closer to us,
but to get this sense of
1-point perspective
I'll continue to draw a diagonal lines
going towards the vanishing point,
they all should touch at the vanishing point,
if you extended them that way, and then
I'll make a series of vertical lines
along here, and these vertical lines will
also get a little bit closer to each
other as they go towards the vanishing
point and that will give us sort of
grid affect to the drawing in the
bottom left-hand corner for this drawing and
that will be useful for later on in the
actual views a statue of a figure on the
left, which I'll put in later on,
this sort of grid like structure will also enable me
to tell where the windows need to go
and these will mark the different places for
the buildings on the left hand side,
when using 1-point perspective
and drawing windows,
the windows I'm doing here towards the top
left of the picture, the thickness of the
window, the top inside line of the
thickness of the window will just be a
horizontal line which would be parallel
to the edge of your page and the
horizontal line that we drew it the very
first, so now on the right-hand side of
this view I'm going to draw a lot of diagonal
lines all going towards the vanishing point,
the way to think about it really
is that these lines, if you're looking
straight on that the wall, wouldn't be
getting close together, but because we're
looking sideways at them, they're going
to be getting close together, now to draw
the building on the right we need to
put in a series of rows of windows and
for these again the vertical line to stay
vertical, so once you've got one window
we can to read them downwards, so they
all stay similar to each other, then we
just choose another line to the right
and do another stack of windows,
so basically just trying to keep the
windows in neat columns, getting larger
they go towards the right hand side of
the page
and getting smaller to go towards the
left hand side of the page, as they go
towards the vanishing point,
now as this drawing is a view of the Bridge of Sighs,
the famous view of the Bridge of Sighs
in Venice, we need to draw the bridge
so for that, bridge is very high up
between the two buildings, so we draw two
horizontal lines which are parallel to
each other and then we can put a curve
on the top and then also put the curve
on the bottom as well and it just has a
couple of square windows and a few
architectural details that we can add
later on and that's what we need to do
at this stage
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