Hi, Tom here and in this Circle Line Art School video I will show you one way to draw a
cloister in one point perspective, a cloister is a covered walkway or arcade,
this drawing is based on the cloisters at Lacock Abbey
that was used for the filming of some of the Harry Potter scenes, for this one
point perspective drawing, first draw a straight horizontal line across the
middle of your page, this is the horizon line in one point perspective and all
parallel lines that are going away from us will look that they meet at a
vanishing point on this horizon line, for this particular drawing we can place a
vanishing point on the right, as the cloister is going to be going towards the
right, next draw a rectangular box around your vanishing point, the rectangle needs
to be wider than it is high as it will be the proportion of the shape of the
closer, next draw a series of lines from our vanishing point through each of the
corners of our rectangle,
in this drawing we're only using one vanishing point, that is why the drawing is called
a one-point perspective drawing,
now I will draw a series of vertical lines on the left,
getting closer together as they go
towards the vanishing point
and each of the vertical lines starts and stops between the diagonal lines
which go to our vanishing point,
next draw a faint horizontal guideline from the base of these vertical
lines, going right and then when they touch the right side diagonal, then we
can draw new vertical lines going up, which should be the same as the vertical
lines on the left, we could now erase the center of the rectangle and then add an
archway with a point, a gothic archway, as they have points at the top of them
and then use the diagonal for the baseline we could
draw another archway beyond the first one...
next draw a straight line going up from the middle of our rectangle and this can
be the high point of the curve of the roof of the cloisters,
if you extend this vertical line up, we can use it for the high point of each of
the curves of the roof, each curve goes from one vertical line
to the opposite vertical line on the other side,
next we can double up the thickness of the vertical lines, the columns, on the left,
and then draw some lines from the vanishing point and using these new
diagonal lines as guidelines for the details that we can now add, as we have
the basic shape of a gothic style cloister, all of the vertical lines in
this drawing needs to stay vertical and all of the horizontal lines that are
going away from us need to look like if they continued they go all the way to
the vanishing point, for this drawing I'm using a 4b pencil, if you would like to
learn more about drawing please visit my website: www.circlelineartschool.com,
Thank you very much for watching this drawing tutorial, I hope you found it
useful for your own drawings, if you would like to learn more about drawing
please visit my website: www.circlelineartschool.com