Hello and welcome to my new video, How to Draw a City using 1-Point Perspective,
seen from above, from a bird's eye point of view,
the first step in this drawing is to draw two parallel lines across your page,
the buildings are going to be above and below these two lines and then
there are going to be some roads in the middle,
next I need to draw a rectangle, which will be the top of one of the
tall buildings,
and all the rectangles that we draw need to be parallel with the sides of the paper,
next I will draw a dot somewhere near the center of the page and that will be my
Vanishing Point,
now I need to find the corners of the rectangle and draw lines towards the
vanishing point
so I've got three lines from the edges of the rectangle going right to the
vanishing point and stopping there
next I'll repeat this process higher up, for another top of a building
again
I read the lines from the edge of this rectangle towards the vanishing point
in the center of the page
now, to draw a city I will need
to repeat this quite a lot, so I've got lots of buildings,
it depends where you play some how big they're going to be, so this one here is
quite a large rectangle for this drawing, but the foreshortening at the front
facade of the building will be quite tight
so these lines come in but I don't you think too much
I just draw them to the point, then this time there won't really be there because
it's parallel to the vanishing point
so what I do is so just draw a little rectangle coming off the main building
then that'd be like a second a lower down building and then that will have a
line going to the vanishing point
next, I'll draw another square or rectangle over here, so it's quite important, I think,
at this stage to make sure that they work just the way we want,
later on you can add a lot more buildings in between the spaces of the
first ones but just get the first ones working around the vanishing point
would be really useful
so I'll do another one over back here, and sometimes if they're away from the
vanishing point, if I'd like, I can draw the lines going all the way to the
vanishing point and they'll look that tall buildings
so I want so range of heights within this so I don't have to draw the line
actually to the vanishing point, but I can just read it towards the vanishing point and stop the
pencil line before it actually gets there, for this drawing I'm using a
4B pencil and some cartridge paper
so now I think we are getting
some illusion of looking down on some buildings
next I need to find the base of the buildings, now these will be parallel to
the top of the buildings, the top rectangle that we drew first
and you just read that line cross, this is quite straightforward for the
first buildings, because they stop at the two parallel lines that we drew
at the beginning and therefore the basis of these buildings will be coming
off days two parallel lines
now I use an erasor to rub out some of these lines going straight to the
vanishing point, just so that we can see what we got a little bit more and so they
look a bit more like buildings rather than just and lots of line shooting way
to the vanishing point
so I repeat the process speed up the film a little bit now
so you've got another building here it's going to be quite tall, I will put in the base
as we go along
I can read it to the vanishing point but also I can read off the other lines that have
already got in the drawing to make an estimate of where they go and then down
here up another one and this will be behind the earlier building that I've
already drawn, so I'm going to stop the line about there, because otherwise
there wouldn't be any space that the ground wouldn't be there, so you just
need to look really and see,
what's positioning makes sense for the building to stop, so they'll stop
and the ground is sort of flat, it doesn't vary too much
so rub out the base of that one so you can see where it stops right now,
I will do a few more buildings over on this side and start to really build up a city now
of lots and lots of different buildings
so you can see sometimes when they overlap it will make the tall building
look like it's coming forward if there's a lower building to the side of it,
which is behind it, so it's sort of to the building's behind push the
buildings in front forwards,
to create more illusion of space and looking down
now all of the rectangles, as I said before, are parallel to the sides of the
page and also parallel to each other, so they're all at right angles to each other at all stages,
in an older City obviously there'll be lots of different
sorts of buildings at different angles, but just for straightforward simple
1-Point Perspective you've got all the parallel lines going to the one vanishing
point in the center
just to make it straight forward and also probably to make a more dramatic
image at the end
it's amazing how many buildings you can actually squeeze in and some of them
they just become small parts of a building because the hidden by the
buildings in front of them
so the process has become faster this stage, so you can actually just place a
few rectangles all in one go
and then read the lines cross to the vanishing point
so it is probably quite a good idea
just to think about the scale of the building's now, so I want to make these
buildings that very large, so as I place them in, I'm starting to think about how
I will then add some context of scale so having to put some cars into the road
that I will placed down on the center of this picture later on and that will give us
some scale
and also I'll be able to give it some scale by placing some lines for the windows but
in the meantime I just continue doing these buildings
getting a variety of different shapes and heights to fill the city up that
I've got
for this video
I keep the drawing, the page,
still, but probably wasn't filming it I would turn the page around so I could just
get the angle more easily because it's a drawing which should probably work sort
of on its side and upside down
just as much as it does this way and sometimes straight lines are easier to
draw
if you can turn the page to the angle which is more appropriate for you
and obviously could use ruler, I just find it a bit slow to use a ruler and also if
you use ruler and you get something slightly wrong
it shows up a lot more whereas if you're just drawing it freehand it has a
more sort of organic quality and in their buildings but
it just has a more oganic quality, so I decided to put some things on top of the
buildings they got a lot of flat roofs here which at the top of the buildings
and we're looking down like a bird's eye view
so just jumping forward hear a little bit
I saved a bit of time and added all the edge buildings now I'm putting some of
the floors of the building then starting with the lines very close
when they're near the vanishing point and as they come towards the roof of the
building they become further away and then I'll put some of the details on
the top of the buildings
and doesn't really matter too much what they are water storage or coolers or
service things or swimming pools whatever you can just add little things
to them
I think some of the lines darker to give the more contrast to the picture make it
look a little bit more dramatic
so I just keep going with this again and again and created a view of the city
looking down
I eraised the vanishing point now because I don't need it
it's sort of goes away and now I'm going to add some roads
now I've left a big gap with the original two parallel lines so that's
too big for one road so I've been going to put a road system in and they can go
between the buildings so I've rubbed out the two parallel lines which was the first
to lines I drew and now just making up
some road system and these are going to be at right angles to each other or
curves and all similar scale to whatever first width of road
you do so it's more readable
there's no real perspective in the roads it's a bit like just a normal map
I think if I do this a little bit more I might want to add not just vehicles but
add some tone to it because the white center road system that I've got quite
bright and it's coming forward so if i make it darker in a short while
that will create a more depth to the picture so just adding and a few cars
maybe a traffic jam here or there
just sort of dotting them around they're not really cars they are just little
marks to represent cars because of the scale
you don't need draw and anything too much
so jumping ahead a little bit I've been added a lot more cars and now I'm making
the bases just outside the buildings, I can making these bases a bit darker
with the 4B pencil
And now I have added some shading and darker areas to the road system so you can see which roads over-lap
the other roads, so basically I think that's it for this drawing
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