Hello and welcome to my new video: How to Draw using 1-Point Perspective,
first draw a horizontal line and then draw a dot in the middle of this horizontal line,
next draw two diagonal lines that meet that this dot or vanishing point,
to make this into a railway track,
draw a series of horizontal lines that get closer together as they go towards the
vanishing point,
now draw two more diagonal lines from the
vanishing point, this will be a road that is parallel to the road track that we've just drawn,
next, we could draw another diagonal line, just to the left of these two,
now on this new diagonal line we need to
draw short vertical line, which will be the near corner of a house that we
can draw, then from the top of this upright vertical line, draw another diagonal line,
next you could draw a triangle for the side of the roof and then a square below
this for the site of the house,
from the top of the triangle
of the roof we could draw another diagonal that goes towards the
vanishing point and this will be the top of the roof and then to cut it short, so
it doesn't go on forever to the vanishing point we need to copy the side
of the triangle on the right and copy that angle for the back of the house and
then we'll get a roof that will work in 1-point perspective, now to this house
now you could add a door and some windows, maybe,
and so the door, the uprights of the door, will be vertical and the uprights of the
window will be vertical and the diagonals will follow the diagonals that
we've already got, again going towards this one vanishing point, for 1-point
perspective you need one vanishing point and all of the parallel lines need to go
towards that one vanishing point, so now we have a horizon with a railway track
going to the vanishing point and then the road on the left
also going towards the vanishing point, and a house in one point perspective as well,
just a simple house, on the right hand side we've got some space, so I'll do two
more diagonal lines going towards the vanishing point and then the third one as well
and then on this third diagonal line on the right I'll put some upright
verticals and I might make these into lampposts or maybe trees, I make them
into trees and to do that we just need to find the top of one of the trees, the
top of one of these vertical lines, and then draw a line from this top base all
the way to the vanishing point, and then just to make it easy for myself,
I'll make all the trees the same height, but they're going away into perspective
into the distance,
so I'll just need one diagonal line to cut them all off at the same height and
so the trees that we draw, they can be just very simple trees, like a cypress
tree or a poplar tree and just keep it very very simple
so that they're really repeating the shapes and therefore you'll get more of
the hang of how one point perspective works, by not over complicating things
too much,
so they're going to get smaller as they go away, because that's what perspective does,
they are always going to go way towards vanishing point, because that's where
we're looking as the viewer to the drawing,
we're looking towards the vanishing point and all of the parallel lines which are in
the environment that with are drawing are also going towards the vanishing point,
so that makes it a clearer image to draw,
now for the railway track we probably need to to put in a bit more detail so that we
can actually get the bars of metal going away into the distance and then the
wooden sleepers, the sleepers of the railway track, being sort of from
brick like shapes, wooden planks which go away into the distance as they go into
distance they get smaller and also if you're using, like I am, a 4B pencil
or a soft pencil, you could just press with the pencil slightly less as you
go towards vanishing point and therefore the lines will be slightly darker in the
foreground and then by the mid-ground and the background
the lines will be slightly paler and that will help gain that sense of
perspective as well as just using one point perspective, if you change the tone
of the lines that you're using as well,
it's just quite useful sometimes, so we could also think about maybe adding some
tone to this drawing, some light and dark,
so maybe if I was to do that I might put the light source on the right hand side
and have some shadows going off towards the left, but maybe before we do that
it's a bit empty on the left hand side around the house so we could put some
some other things,
so, what we could do next, perhaps, add a few more trees,
maybe we could put a little bush in here as well,
let's put a fence around this and the fence again, the top of the line of the
fence and the bottom of the line of the fence, will be going towards the
vanishing point,unless its horizontal and then it will just be going straight
like the line of the horizon is straight...
the horizontal line doesn't need to be a straight line, like it's a desert or
a diagram,
often the horizontal line which is the height of the eye of the viewer of the
image, that height is often obscured by hills or buildings or other things so
in this drawing
we could just make a range of hills which are very far distance with these
two parallel lines on the right rather than make them into a road,
I think I'll make them into a little river and I just need to have two curves
that continually wind away towards vanishing point, they don't sort of
stretch out the left or right of these two diagonal lines and that will more or
less get you a river which is a bit straight, but is also wavy, and then maybe
I could put some reflections of the trees and the river, something like that
so I think with this
avenue of trees I could put a little path to the right hand side as well, that goes
behind the trees and that will make the trees come forward, because they've got
something behind them, so therefore they're going to stand in front of the
things behind them,
one point perspective is a very useful technique or device to use in a drawing
to create some sense of a three-dimensional quality,
now I would say that the actual, you know, reality of the world, it is quite complex
and 1-point perspective makes things quite simple, but it also makes them quite
readable as a three-dimensional quality on the two-dimensional surface
of the paper, so it's a useful thing to be able to do, but it does have its
limitations as well, but I hope that you enjoy the rest of this video, and please
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