Hi, tom here in this week's Circle Line Art School video I'll show you one way to draw a table and a
chair using one point perspective start by drawing a horizontal line towards the top of your page
and then a dot to represent the vanishing point in the middle of this horizontal line next
at the lower part of your page you could draw the top front part of the table
and then we can draw two vertical lines one on the right
and then one on the left so this would be the rectangle for the front of the table now
because this is in one point perspective and we're looking straight on at the table all of
these lines will be vertical or horizontal so we can give the table a thickness by drawing another
horizontal line slightly below the top surface of the table and then we can draw a line on the left
for the table leg thickness for the front table leg thickness and then we can repeat that on the
right hand side for the right hand table leg and then maybe one more line below the surface of the
table a sort of structural line of the table so all these lines are just vertical or horizontal
next we can use our vanishing point to plot out the perspective lines the lines that go
away into the distance to the vanishing point so any two parallel lines which are
going away from us directly away from us will look like they go towards our vanishing point
but horizontal lines stay horizontal so we can draw a horizontal line for the back of the table
we can also use the vanishing point to work out the baseline for the legs of the table
now we've got the two perspective guidelines for the back two legs of the table
then we can follow down from the far corner of the table on the right and on the left
and then stop the table legs on the line the perspective line which is a soft guideline
then we can draw the thickness of the table legs too and the baseline of the thickness
of the table legs will go towards the single vanishing point because it's a receding line
next we could draw the front part of a chair
by just drawing a square or a rectangle underneath the table
then we can use our vanishing point to see how the seat of the chair
would proceed away from us and towards the vanishing point on the horizon line and we can
also use the vanishing point on the horizon line to work out the baseline for the back of the chair
so now we can draw the front chair leg on the left and the right
and next because we've got a guideline for where the back chair legs can go
we can draw those in as two more vertical lines on each side
make sure that the back chair legs are higher up than the back table legs
for it to work well then we can give some thickness to these various structures of the chair
now if we follow up from the back chair legs and draw two lines above the table these two lines
on the right and the left would be the width of the back of the chair if the chair was just
had a vertical back and then we can just draw a horizontal line for the top of the back of the
chair there would also be two parallel lines and therefore they would recede to the vanishing point
but that's just a guideline we need a very short amount of the receding lines on the
right and the left so now we've got a basic table and chair drawn in one point perspective
next we could perhaps draw a piece of paper or a booklet or a book on the surface and again if
that was parallel to the table it would share the vanishing point that the table and chair share so
the two lines that are receding from us go just to the vanishing point next we could draw a line on
the left and the right of the table and this could represent the back line of the base of a wall so
that our table and chair are in a room then just draw a vertical line on the left and the right
and that becomes the back wall of a room next we can use our vanishing point again
because all of these shapes are parallel to each other and receding to the single vanishing point
that means the right hand side of the room and the left hand side of the room the base lines
will also go to the vanishing point on the left we could draw a door the vertical lines of the
door will stay vertical but the top line of the door will go to the vanishing point
but this top line of the door on the left is higher than the horizon line so it's
going downwards all of the other lines that are receding in this drawing are going up towards
the vanishing point but the top of the door is going down because the vanishing point is on the
horizon line which is an imaginary line which indicates the height of the eye of the viewer
so you could finish off your drawing with a few more shapes maybe some pictures on the
wall and some more details I hope you find this drawing useful for your own drawings
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