Hi, Tom here in this week's Circle Line Art School
video I'll show you one way to draw a bridge using two point perspective
first draw a horizontal line towards the top of your page next we can place a vanishing point on
the right and then we can place another vanishing point on the left for all of the receding lines
in this two point perspective drawing now draw two lines from the right vanishing point
to the left of your page you could use a ruler for the straight lines or just draw them
you can think of these two lines these two lines will be the road which goes over the bridge
so we're starting with the road going to the right vanishing point just two straight lines
and they'll be thicker on the left because they're nearer and the lines will be thinner on the right
because they're further away next we can draw a third line from the right vanishing point
going left and this will be for the baseline of the bridge next we can draw two vertical lines
for the two sides of the bridge and you can just choose where they go and then draw a curve an arch
between these two lines but not touching the top of the road so that the bridge has some thickness
so that's the basic shape of the bridge
we could add some more lines on the right of the bridge two vertical lines I'm going to add
and then two vertical lines on the left of the bridge two
next we can use the left vanishing point and draw a line to the base of the right of the arch and
then continue it forward all the way to the base of our drawing and then we can repeat that again
using the left vanishing point and the left hand base of the arch this time coming all the
way towards us so this could be a road going under the bridge or maybe a canal going under
the curved bridge that we have now we can draw an angle on the left of the bridge and this will be
an angle for the bank of the land either side of the bridge and we can repeat that on the right
you can just choose whatever angle you wish then we can use the left vanishing point
to find the baseline of the angle on the left and then we can also use the vanishing point
to find the top line of the angle of the bank on the left
so then we can repeat this by using the left vanishing point again
because the lines are receding to the left and they're all parallel therefore they're
all going to go to the left vanishing point and we draw a line for the top of the bank
and then we can draw another line from the left vanishing point for the base of the bank
and the bank is either side of the bridge so we have two banks one on each side of the bridge
now if we draw a line from the top vertical of the corner of the arch
and then a line down from where it hits the road
then at that point we can draw the curve of the inside of the bridge that we can see
for my drawing there's just a little bit of the curve that we can see
it depends exactly where all the lines are so your drawing might be a little bit different to this so
that is one way to draw a bridge using two point perspective for this drawing I use a 4b pencil
you might like to draw a curve for the reflection in the canal of the curve of the bridge
and then you might like to add some shading some tonal values to your drawing
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