Hi Tom here, in this week's Circle Line Art School video I'll show you one way to
draw Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris,
for this pen drawing start by drawing a vanishing point low down on the right of
your page, next draw a vertical line down the middle of your page, for the edge
corner of the Cathedral, now from the top of this line draw a new line going
towards our vanishing point, for the side of the tower, then add two more lines
going towards the vanishing point, all the lines which are parallel will look
like they are meet at this point, if they're going towards the right, if
they're on the right surface of the building,
next, continue these three lines going towards the left to another vanishing
point which is far away, so far away that we can't fit it onto our page, they're
almost parallel but they're just getting slightly closer as they go towards the left,
next draws some more vertical lines for the two front towers, using our right
vanishing point to find the right lines the lines on the right, you could use a
pencil for this drawing, but if you use a pen remember that all of the drawing
lines, they're just constructional lines of the shape of the Cathedral rather
than its outline, therefore we can draw several lines and the lines can get more
accurate over time, so this style of drawing, which is sometimes called
wireframe style of drawing, where the lines the straight lines that we use
sort of extend beyond the structure to emphasize its form and also they show
the internal structure, showing the relationship of the parts of the
building to the whole form, so the lines we can use can start straight, but sort
of run out or maybe overrun, go beyond the edge of where we're drawing the line to,
next draw the vertical structures of the
tower a bit more, the West facade of Notre Dame is 13th century, basically there
are two towers, the North Tower and the South Tower, which were I think the
highest towers, the highest structures, in Paris until the Eiffel Tower was built,
in the 1880s...1889,
once you have the basic structure of the facade, the front of the Cathedral, then
we can place the three pointed arches, the three gothic arches, in their correct
place at the front of the building,
since the recent devastating roof fire it seems the structure is intact and
there are plans being developed for a new roof and a new spire,
the way that we're looking at the facade of the cathedral we're looking almost
straight on it, the facade, so that the vanishing point on the left is hardly
affecting the shape of the building, of the right angles of the building, but the
vanishing point on the right, because we're looking down the side of the
building quite severely, the vanishing point is right is quite near to the
building itself,
I hope you find this drawing tutorial useful and I hope you have a go at this
style of drawing, please visit my website: www.circlelineartschool.com to learn more about drawing!
Thank you very much and see you next time...