Hi, Tom here and in this week's new video I'll show you one way to draw
blocks using two-point perspective based on the Jenga game, most of this drawing is
in two-point perspective, but a few of the blocks are in one-point perspective,
first draw a horizontal line above the middle of your page, next draw two marks,
one on the left and one on the right, for the two vanishing points for the main
tower block in the center of this drawing,
now draw a vertical line in the middle of your page,
next draw line from the top of this vertical line to the left vanishing
point and another from the base of the vertical line also to the same left
vanishing point,
these two lines represent parallel lines, but due to perspectives they look like
they meet at the horizontal line at the point of the vanishing point, we can
draw two more lines to the right vanishing point, again these are two
parallel lines, as it were, but due to perspective they go all the way to the
vanishing point, as if they meet, now we can draw a vertical line on the right
between the two diagonal lines to show where the tower ends on the right hand
side and then we can draw another vertical line on the left of the center
to where the basic tower block ends on the left, now we can divide this tower
into multiple floors or layers, start by making even spaces along the central
vertical line and then we can draw from these marks to the right vanishing point,
some straight lines going all the way to the right vanishing point...
and then we can also join all of these marks to the left vanishing point on the
left hand side too, so in this drawing, in any drawing in perspective, you have the
horizon line and anything above the horizon line we're looking up at and
anything below the horizon line, the horizontal line, we're looking down at, so
in this tower we're looking up at the top but we're looking down at the bottom,
we're looking two different ways at the same time, we're also looking left to the
left vanishing point and we're looking right to the right vanishing point, now we
can erase some of the lines around the basic block and straighten any lines
that we need, to so that we can see the basic shape that we've drawn, this line
is just above the horizontal line, the horizon line,
now we can divide each side of the basic tower block with two vertical lines on
the right and two vertical lines on the left, these lines will be helpful as they
will make the tower block into a Jenga block which each individual block within
this bigger block will be three by one, in proportion, to draw the first
individual block at the top we can erase these two lines on the right to make the
block three squares long and then draw a line from this point on the left,
underneath the block as it were, all the way to the vanishing point on the right
and then at the end of the block on the right that line is here this vanishing
point on the left, so lines on the left need to go to the vanishing point on the
right and lines on the right needs to go to the vanishing point on the left, so as
we draw the individual blocks we can find all of the lines that we need just
by using diagonal lines that either go to the right or the left vanishing
points, we don't need any more horizontal, just diagonal lines, to make all the
blocks, but make sure that each block is three squares long and one square wide,
so that they all in the same proportion,
as we, draw it's helpful to make the worked out
lines slightly darker than the lines that we drew earlier on, so that we can
see how the tower unfolds and we can keep track of what we're doing, all of
these shapes are within the basic tower block that we drew at the beginning of
this drawing and all we're doing is marking some of the lines darker and
adding new diagonal lines to the vanishing points on the left and the right,
as we continue to draw these blocks, going down the tower
we could consider how to keep the basic tower in balance,
it helps, I think to try and visualize the individual blocks within the bigger
basic tower, to sort of see the blocks before you draw them,
to imagine how the blocks are in three dimensions and then draw them to sort of
pull them out, as a drawing, because by following perspective we are able,
I think, to more easily imagine 3d objects...
and then draw them using the vanishing points of perspective as a guide for our
imagination!
I also want to add some more blocks outside this main tower block, but not
parallel to the block and because they're not going to be parallel to the
block we don't want to use the two vanishing points that we have, because
we're going to be looking at these new individual blocks in a different
direction, so they're coming from a different direction and therefore they
need their own individual one point, one point perspective point,
so we can draw each block in one point perspective which is outside the main
block, as they're not connected to the main shape, so if you draw a single
vanishing point here and from this point we can draw a new block which looks like
it's coming forwards towards us, but getting smaller as it goes away from us
and the lines getting smaller as they go away from us
will taper all the way to the new vanishing point,
by adding these falling blocks we can make a more dynamic drawing as we are seeing shapes that
look 3d, but from multiple directions at the same time, so there are lots of
things going on in our drawing at the same time...
we can add more of these falling blocks but each of the new blocks that we add
needs to have its own single vanishing point which doesn't make any connection
to any of the other shapes in the drawing, so it's an individual vanishing
point for each of these falling blocks, make sure that the vanishing points that
you use for these falling plots are not on the horizontal horizon line,
perspective enables us to give the illusion of depth in drawing and that
can create a lot of space and a dynamic quality,
once you have the blocks that
you want, where you want them, you might need to make some of them a little bit
shorter, this is due to foreshortening, so as something goes away from you, the
length of the shape will look shorter when it seemed from this angle so I'm
just going to change some of them a little bit, so they look right in
relation to the main tower block, so they don't look overly too long,
now to finish this drawing I'll add some tonal value, for this drawing I'm using a 4B pencil,
so that is a simple way to draw a tower block based on the Jenga game of wooden
blocks I am grading some of the tone dark to
light, just by pressing the pencil, the 4B pencil that I'm using for this drawing,
pressing it harder to softer, to get a graded effect, so using a white pencil as
I'm drawing on a slightly gray piece of paper, so the white will show up a little bit,
we have used 2-point perspective for
most of this drawing, but we've also used one point perspective for the individual
falling blocks, which each of them have their own individual one point,
thank you for watching this video, I hope you found it useful for your own
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thank you for watching and see you next time, bye bye!