Hi, Tom here in this week's Circle Line Art School drawing challenge I'll show you
one way to draw a treehouse step by step for this drawing we can use two-point
perspective, start by drawing a horizontal line
low down on your page,
next draw two vanishing points either end of the horizon line,
now draw the corner of a treehouse, just a vertical line in the middle of the page,
and high above the horizon line,
from this corner of the treehouse draw two guidelines from the top and
bottom of the line to the vanishing point on the right, and now draw two more
guidelines to the vanishing point on the left,
next draw a vertical line on the left for the edge of the
treehouse and now to another vertical line on the right for the right edge of
the treehouse,
now from this base on the right horizontal line, draw a guide line to the
left vanishing point and then another line from the base of the left
horizontal line to the right vanishing point,
now we can add a roof,
draw a triangle on the right and then a guideline from the top of the triangle
to the vanishing point on the left,
next copy the angle of the triangle on the left for the back of the roof on the left,
now we have a floating house, a floating treehouse, we could extend the roof at
the front of the house, using the left vanishing point for this
next we could extend the base of the house to make a walkway around the treehouse,
to do this, just draw another bigger base using the two vanishing points that we're using
for this drawing, for all of the receding lines, so two lines going to the left
vanishing point and two lines going to the right vanishing point,
for this drawing we are using two point perspective, so that we can draw a
treehouse from an angle, two point perspective is useful when drawing
things like this, as it allows us to know where the parallel lines go, will
look like they meet and they're going to meet on the horizon
line, at the vanishing points where we place them,
if the vanishing points were at different places on horizon,
as long as they're far apart it wouldn't look wrong, it would just look different,
but generally speaking in perspective drawing, it's good to have the vanishing
points quite far apart,
time to draw some details on the tree house, we can draw the top of the door on
the wall, receding to the right, by using the right vanishing point to find the
angle of the top door line, on the left-hand side of the treehouse
we can draw some windows,
use the left vanishing point because they are receding to left,
when you are ready you could erase the guidelines to the vanishing points that
we no longer need,
so now we have a house in the sky, time to draw a big tree to hold it up, so it
becomes a tree house,
starts by drawing a very wide tree trunk,
you could draw some of the branches going straight through the decking in a
sort of circle and then popping out the other side in front of the treehouse and
going above the treehouse, take your time to draw the branches so that you can get
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