To draw a house in 2-point perspective,
first draw a horizontal line in the
middle of your page,
and next we can draw a cross at each end
of this horizontal line for the two
vanishing points, where all the lines the
sides of the house will go...
draw a vertical line for the
side of the house, now draw two more
diagonal lines from this vertical line
to the left vanishing point and then two
more lines to the right vanishing point
draw two vertical lines for the sides of the house
now draw a triangle on the left for the roof
next draw a line from the top of the
triangle to the right vanishing point,
now copy your triangle line on the right
of the roof,
next we can draw a chimney, using the same diagonal roofline and
drawing some vertical lines and a
horizontal top of the chimney, will go to
the right vanishing point, in this way we
can find the base and the top the
chimney, because we can read along these
lines to the right vanishing point and
also to the left vanishing point
once we've got the basic shape of the
house in two point perspective, it's time
to darken some of the pencil lines,
also extend the line of the roof so that
it overhangs the front of the building
and also the back of the building a bit,
again these lines will go to the left
and the right vanishing points because
they're diagonal lines
and now I think I want the ground floor
of the house to be slightly smaller than
the first floor, so to do that I need to draw
a diagonal line, I'll make it slightly
lower than the horizontal line that we
drew, the first line that we drew in this
drawing, and then this diagonal line will
go again to towards the vanishing
points from left and the right and
that will split the house in two, now the
uprights, the three lines that show the
uprights of the building, I can just
bring them in a little bit and that will
make the ground floor of this house
slightly smaller than the top floor, so
it overhangs,
next I'll add some vertical lines to
show the sides of any doors or windows
that I'm going to add to this drawing,
now all of these lines need to be
vertical, with the other vertical lines
that we've got and the vertical edge of
your paper as well...
I can draw the top and the bottom of the
windows by just drawing diagonal lines
going to either one of the two vanishing
points and this will mark the shapes of
the windows, so now for the rest of
drawing I'll make the pencil lines
darker again and add some smaller
details to the windows and window frames
of the house...
I'm going to add some trees here, to draw
this tree I just draw a tree trunk at
first and then just a few branches,
and then here, towards the top of the
tree, I'll just draw in, I'll sketch in
some basic shapes, the basic sketch of a tree,
trying to get the movement of the
tree rather than many details within it...
I'm going to draw a road here, sort of sweeping around
in the foreground,
two big curves that bend quite a lot,
and then I'll add some trees and other
bushes and maybe, I don't want the road
going all the way to the horizon, so I'll
bit of bush in front of it so we can't
really see where the road goes,
so for all these trees and
I want to just give an indication of the
shape and to do that I'll just make some
loose sketch like marks...
for this drawing I used a 4B pencil,
a blending stump and an eraser,
if you don't have a blending stump you
could just smudge with your fingers or
use an eraser to smudge the pencil lines
or indeed just draw the pencil lines
more softly than I have, I'll add some
shadows to to this drawing, so I'm
imagining that the lights coming from
the right hand side so I'll put shadows
on the left of everything and then for
this large tree next to the house I want
to have it so the tree casts a shadow
along the ground and then the shadow
follows up along the contours of the
house as well and then the bush on the
right can also have a shadow going
across the road
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