Hi, Tom here in this week's Circle Line Art School drawing I'll show you one way to
draw a city using five point perspective, start by drawing a circle, you could draw
around something or just draw a circle freehand,
once you have a circle draw dot in the center, next draw a vertical line through
the middle of the circle, now we need to draw a horizontal line
across the middle of the circle, when drawing in five point perspective
each point represents a direction of looking and each point is a vanishing
point, where two parallel lines will look like they meet, so in this circle we have
five vanishing points, one at the top, one at the bottom, one on left and one on the
right, that makes four, the fifth vanishing point is in the centre of the cross, in
the center of the circle, next we need to draw curved grid on our circle, start
by drawing a curved vertical line from the top vanishing point to the bottom
vanishing point, these curves should get more curvy as they reach the outer
circle of our circle, you could think of these curved lines as
in fact straight lines which are drawn on the surface of a circle, so if you
think, if you draw a straight line on a surface of a circle it will look
straight- if you're looking straight on at it- but if you move the spherical
shape, the globe like shape around the line that you drew that was straight
will look curved, when seen from an angle that's in effect what we're doing here,
once you've drawn the first set of curves for our curve grid, we can then
draw a new set of curves, this time from the left vanishing point to the right
vanishing point, again the line between the left and the right vanishing point
is a straight line, but then as we draw the grid lines get more curvy
until they echo the curve of the outside of the circle,
so the grid that we now have looks least distorted in its center, in the center of
the cross, but as we look towards the four vanishing points on the
circumference of the circle, the grid, the curve grid, looks more distorted, that's
what we want, you get a lot of distortion in five point perspective, next we need
to erase the original cross and some bits of the gridlines next to
the cross, this is because this cross will become the middle of our four roads
going towards our four vanishing points on the edge of the circle,
we can now draw an extra line on the outside of the cross we have just
revealed ,this line needs to be close to the original line of the cross, again
curving as the cross curves, so you could think of the edge of the circle like a
curved horizon of the earth rather than the straight horizon of our experience of looking,
we have now drawn curved grid using our four vanishing points,
now we can make this shape into a city full of buildings, by using the
vanishing point in the center of the circle, the fifth vanishing point, each of
the squares of our curved grid can become the flat roof top of buildings
and by drawing straight lines from the center vanishing point to all of the
corners of the roof squares we can draw many buildings in five point perspective,
we'll need to make a little bit of space between the squares, so that the
buildings aren't touching each other, each of the straight lines must go
towards the central vanishing point the fifth vanishing point in this five point
perspective drawing, but they should stop outside the edge of
the main cross, so that they're not going through where the road goes through,
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for this drawing I'll go over lines with a pen
and then add some smaller details to the buildings
and some tiny cars on the road and the cars will get smaller as they go towards
the vanishing points on the circumference of the circle,
I'll also add a little bit of shading with a pencil to indicate some shadows too,
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