Hi tom here in this week's Circle Line Art School drawing tutorial
i'll show you one way to draw some shipping containers using one point perspective
a basic introduction to one point perspective for beginners
start by drawing a horizontal line across the base of your page just a soft guideline
next draw another horizontal line just below the first one
on the first line that we drew the horizon line
we can draw a dot in the center for the single vanishing point
we shall use for the rest of the drawing all the parallel lines of the receding sides of
the shipping containers will go towards this one vanishing point next on the left draw a rectangle
slightly taller than it is wide and use the bottom horizontal line as the baseline for this rectangle
this is the front of our first container
now we can repeat this on the right hand side of the drawing another rectangle for
another front of a shipping container using the bottom horizontal line as a baseline
so these two shipping containers are the same distance from us next we could add some more
rectangles all the same size place them wherever you want just not in the middle of the drawing
you could stack them high
now we are ready to use the vanishing point for the receding lines for the corners of the
rectangles we have drawn all of these receding guidelines just soft lines will go straight
towards the single vanishing point on the horizon line in the middle of the drawing the lines below
the horizon line will go downwards because we're looking down upon the things below the horizon
line and the lines above the horizon line will go upwards because we're looking up so basically
the horizon line represents the height of the eye of the viewer who's looking at the image
next using some vertical lines we can choose how long each of these container boxes are they need
to be not too long and not too short remember it's a very very long way all the way to the horizon
from where we're looking then we can start to darken the lines that we need for the drawing
because we used a continuous baseline for the lower level of the rectangles that we drew at the
beginning of the drawing they are all the same distance away from us the viewer of the image
that means the front of the containers will recede the same amount if they're the same depth
and so we can draw a horizontal guideline from the back of the containers on the left
and use it as a guide for the length of the containers on the right if you'd like
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next we could draw a container forklift truck in the center of the drawing but quite far away
so quite small in size from where we're looking for this forklift truck container
just draw two small wheels and a few basic shapes seen from the side
now for this forklift truck we can draw a long vertical arm going quite high up into the air
and then once we've got that we could draw a hydraulic piston
at an angle a diagonal line joining the truck to the vertical arm of the truck
then on the right below the top of the vertical arm towards the front of a container but much
smaller than the other containers that you've drawn so far because it's further away from us
next we can use the vanishing point which is now behind the truck in my drawing
to work out the perspective lines for this new container which is up in the air
for your drawing you could add more containers in the distance
remember that as the containers get further away from us the view of the image
they will be smaller in size try to make each of the rectangles of the fronts of the containers
the same proportion as the others
and the proportion is slightly taller than they are wide
as you draw along you could darken the lines that you need
and erase the guidelines that you no longer need
in this simple drawing they're in rectangles that we're making into cuboids and a truck
and each of these shipping containers is basically the same shape as all the
others we're just drawing them from different angles and different positions in the drawing
next erase some more guidelines that you no longer need
when you are ready you could draw the details for the front of each of these shipping containers
start by drawing a central vertical line to create two doors for each of the shipping containers
either side of this vertical central line draw two more vertical lines close to
and these can be the locking bars on each side next draw the door locking handles
again on each side of the center line then we could draw an inner
line around the rectangle quite close to the original rectangle that we drew
we could draw a few horizontal dividing lines for each of the doors the same on each side
i find for these sort of details in drawing it's good to think them through
and to simplify them so they don't look too complex
but also so that we can repeat them with ease within the drawing when needed
along the sides of each of the shipping containers i'll draw a series of vertical lines
but i'll draw two receding lines one at the top and one at the bottom first
which go towards our vanishing point in the center of our drawing
and these vertical lines will get closer as they recede from us and go towards the vanishing point
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