Hi Tom here, in this week's Circle Line Art School drawing challenge I will show you
one way to draw an imaginary city using 1-point perspective,
starts by drawing a horizon line towards the top of your paper,
next, draw a vanishing point in the centre of this horizon line,
the vanishing point is where all parallel lines that recede or look like they end up at,
next, draw four lines to the vanishing point from the base of the paper,
these will be the two main roads of the drawing,
now we can draw the building, starting in the gap between the two roads,
start by drawing the nearest buildings first, particularly if you're using a pen,
the one at the front, we can add details to straight away,
for this drawing, to draw a basic building, just draw a rectangle
and then draw receding lines going towards the vanishing point from the corners of the rectangle,
and then a couple of back lines, vertical and horizontal, to show how far back the
building recedes, and then in this way you can turn each rectangle that you
draw into a cuboid in one point perspective, I would suggest not to make
the buildings too deep, so they don't recede too far,
now in one point perspective buildings of the same size will clearly look
smaller at a distance, but for this drawing most of the buildings vary
greatly in their relative size to each other, so some of the buildings in the
mid-ground or background could be really large, but far away, and some of the other
buildings could be quite small,
for this pen drawing I used a marker pen to add some tonal
values at the end, some simple shading of one side of the buildings and then some
cast shadows across the roads,
you might wish to draw some details, windows and cars and buses and people,
in your drawing I suggest that you draw your own City, sort of based loosely on
the ideas in this drawing, because you can just invent your own buildings as you draw,
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