Hi Tom here, in this week's Circle Line Art School video I'll show you one way to
draw using three-point perspective, looking down on a building ,in this
drawing, as we're looking down, we can draw the horizon line towards the top of
the paper as the horizon line is the height of our eyeline and we're not
looking up, so nothing will be above the horizon line, but we are looking down,
next, we need two vanishing points on this horizon line far apart, a vanishing
point is a point in perspective where two parallel lines will look like they
meet if they were to continue, so in this drawing we're looking right and we're
also looking left, but we're also looking down, so we've got a vanishing point on
the right for looking right, we've got a vanishing point on the left for looking
left, and now we need to draw another vanishing point low down on the page,
towards the middle, sometimes it's best to even go beyond the edge of the page,
further away and this will be our third vanishing point, now we have our three
vanishing points for this drawing using three-point perspective,
next draw a dot somewhere in the middle of these three vanishing points and this
dot can represent the nearest corner of the building that we will draw, from this
dot we can draw a straight line towards the left and another towards the right
vanishing points, then on the right hand line, the line going to the right
vanishing point, somewhere along there, we can draw another line to the left vanishing point,
and from the left line going to the left
vanishing point, somewhere along this line, we can draw another line to the
right vanishing point, and by doing this we now have a simple rectangle which
will be the top of a flat roof in two-point perspective, because we're just
using two points at the moment, next draw three straight lines from the
corners of your rectangle going down to the third vanishing point,
choose how tall you want the building to be and mark on the middle line, that's
going down, a point, a dot and then draw a straight line from this dot to the left
vanishing point and another straight line to the right vanishing point, now
our rectangle that we drew in two-point perspective, the top of the roof, has
become a cuboid in three point perspective, because we're looking left,
we're looking right, but we're also looking straight down, all at the same
time! and that's why we're using three point perspective in this drawing,
remember the horizon line is at the top of the paper and this line shows the
height of our eye line and the building is below the horizon line, this block
which will turn into the buildings, below the horizon line, because we're looking
down and the third vanishing point is needed so that we can know where these
lines, as say go away from us, they get closer together and eventually following
the principle of perspective the lines will look like they meet and we'll need
to have a dot where these lines meet and this dot is our vanishing point, our third
vanishing point, all the lines in this drawing follow these basic principles of
three point perspective, if you would like to learn more please visit my
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