Hi, Tom here, welcome to my new video,
How to Draw San Francisco in 2-point perspective,
the first step for this
drawing is to draw a horizontal line
towards the bottom of your page,
next draw two marks for the two
vanishing points on this horizontal line
now draw a vertical line between these
two vanishing points,
next we can draw a diagonal line from
the top of this vertical line to the
vanishing point on the right,
now we can draw a diagonal line from the bottom of
this vertical line to the same vanishing point
on the right,
next we can repeat this by drawing two more diagonal lines but
this time to the left
vanishing point, this shape that we have
now shows the start of the corner of our
first building, which will be the
Sentinel building in San Francisco,
next draw a vertical line to the right
of our first vertical line, this will be
the back of the side wall on the right,
now we can repeat this with another
vertical line on the left, to show the back
of the left hand side of this Sentinel
building,
next we need to draw an ellipse, which is
just a circle seen from a side view at
the top corner of our building, as we
will make this into a curved corner,
now draw a vertical line either side of this
first ellipse going down on each side,
next we can draw a series of evenly
spaced marks for the floors of the
building on our original vertical line,
now draw diagonal lines to the right
vanishing point from these marks and
then to the left vanishing point from
these marks as well, this will make the
corner of our building in
2-point perspective,
I think I will add a lower part to this building,
at street level here,
next, I'll speed up this video a little
bit, as I put in more details, first I'll
draw some lines for looking up at the
roof, so that we can see the guttering
for the top of the roof, I can then add
some more ellipses at the top of the
building and a dome to, and then I'll
add some more ellipses for each of the
floors going down to the street level of
the building
next, I will add some
windows and put in some more details to
now, once we've got all the details
in place, I will add some pen work,
at this stage I think it is a good idea not
to just copy the pencil lines that we
have already made, but to improve them as
we go over them with a pen, so at this
stage, if I see something that I can
correct, this is the stage to do it, or if
I see something that I want to add to my
drawing this is a good stage to do it, so
don't think the pencil lines as correct,
because you might be able to improve
upon them
now all of the vertical lines should stay
vertical in this drawing of the first
building at least, and the tops and the
bottoms of all of the windows must go
ever towards vanishing point on the left
or the vanishing point on the right
I can add some fire stairs on the left
of this Sentinal Building, and maybe some
more details at the street level, like
shop awnings and things like that, once
you have added all the details you want
to for the first building, we can start
on the second building, which will be the
Transamerica Pyramid, first for this
building we need to draw a vertical line
and then two diagonals either side of
this vertical line to make it into a
very pointed pyramid
next we need to add the simple
details at the top of the building, like
a long thin rectangle, either side of the
point,
next we can draw the floor levels on the
right-hand side of this building, these
are quite straightforward because
they'll need to go to the right
vanishing point that we've already used,
when you draw the floors on the left, they
need to go to a new vanishing point
because this building is at a different
angle to the Sentinel Building, the first
building that be drew, so these lines on
the left will be almost horizontal with
the original horizontal line at the
bottom of the page, we could add some
details to the base of this building, now
on the right we can add some more
buildings to make a street, I will add
some buildings here on the left too,
but for most of these buildings that I am now
drawing, we're just using the one
vanishing point on the right-hand side
so all of the diagonal lines will go
towards his right hand side vanishing
point and the vertical lines will stay
vertical, once you have created a series
of buildings you could add a few more
details and then for my drawing
I'll redraw all of these buildings now,
with that thick black pen, I want to give
the illusion of lots of detail, and so I will
use lots of small lines and put in small
windows and some detailing in the architecture too,
I will also make the windows and the base of
the buildings at street level quite dark
to give more drama to the image...
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