Hi, Tom here with my new Circle Line Art School
video, How to Draw the Manhattan Bridge, NYC
The first step in one point perspective
is to draw a horizontal line and
for this drawing we need to draw the line
low down on the page, next draw a across
anywhere near the middle on this
horizontal line and this cross will be
the vanishing point, the point where
parallel lines will converge or meet in this picture,
now draw two diagonal lines
from the vanishing point
to the left and then the right-hand
corner of your page
next, on the left vanishing point we can
draw a vertical line and that will be
the far edge of the first building that we
are drawing, now we can add another diagonal
line from the vanishing point the
crosses over this vertical line to make
the top edge of the first building
that we're drawing
now we can add another vertical line for
the near corner of the first building
and then, because it's one point perspective,
we can have two horizontal lines
going to the left, where these lines meet,
to show the front of the building
we can repeat this process to create
other buildings, but we must remember
to keep all of the vertical lines straight,
straight and parallel to the edge of
your paper
so the fronts of all the buildings that
are facing towards us are rectangles
and the sides of the buildings all taper
towards the vanishing point, all the
sides of the buildings will end up at
the vanishing point!
so once you have done this
we can erase some of the lines
that we don't need any more in our drawing,
so we don't need most of the
horizontal line or the line to go behind
the buildings that we've drawn in the
foreground
now at this stage this is a
somewhat simpler drawing, as we can see
the basic shape that we have created
so on the left we can now add some details in
this one point perspective drawing
now you have got a tonal drawing of the
buildings in one point perspective it is
time to add the Manhattan Bridge,
this steel suspension bridge is in the
distance, but it's still very large
because it's just a big bridge, so I
think I'll draw it with a lighter tone
so from this drawing I'm using a 4B
pencil but to create a lighter tone
I just need to press the pencil not too hard,
to create a lighter tone, so this
lighter tone will help the bridge seem
that it's far away due to
atmospheric perspective, which is a sort of
perspective which isn't linear perspective,
like one point perspective, the
Manhattan Bridge is in the architectural
style called Structural Expressionism,
and I want to show that structure in my
drawing and also to create a sense of
time and place, at least a sense of mood
in the drawing, that's why I use
so much tone
I can add hear the famous view of the
Empire State Building in this
negative shape of the bridge
I think I will draw some puddles on the
roadway and I can show maybe some
reflections of the tonal buildings in
these puddles
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