Hi, Tom here with this week's Circle Line Art School drawing challenge, how to draw the
interior of the Paris Opera House, basically it's how to draw, one way of
drawing, a complex looking interior using one-point perspective in a simple
step-by-step way, so the best way to start is to start at the beginning with
the basic structure for this drawing and for this drawing we can use one-point
perspective because we're looking straight ahead at an interior space, you
could think of it a bit like looking into a simple box straight ahead at the
bottom of the box,
the first step is to draw a horizontal line, which is the line that shows the
height of the eye of the viewer of the image and it's also the line which
parallel lines will meet on this line at a single point on this horizon line
and this point where they meet is the vanishing point and that will be in the
center of the line because we're looking straight ahead, before we mark where this
vanishing point is we can draw the back wall of the interior of the basic box
shape of the interior, make sure the horizon line crosses
through towards the base of this rectangle of the back of the box which
should be in the middle of your page
the rectangle should be in the middle of your page,
next draw a cross in the center of your horizon line to mark the single
vanishing point which shows the direction in which we're looking into
this sort of box like shape and we are need one vanishing point and that means
it's one point perspective, because there's only one, because we're looking
straight ahead and from this cross, this vanishing point, we can draw four lines
and each of the lines needs to touch one of the corners of the rectangle and then
the line just keeps going as it were,
in this way we have made an image hopefully which looks like we're looking
into a basic box in one-point perspective,
now we can divide the back wall of this box as it were with some structure of
columns and floor heights that we will need and some semi circles at the top
these structural shapes are just flat shapes at the moment, they don't have any
illusion of depth, we can add that later,
so we can just draw some vertical and then some horizontal lines at back
and at the top we can divide this space into three semicircles, which will be
useful later on,
when you are ready to add the depth of these structures at the back, we need to
use the vanishing point for all of the lines, all the diagonal lines, which show how
these shapes recede away from us,
once you have some of these receding lines that look that they're all going
sort of deeper away from us than the back of the box, they are sort of
further back than the back of the box shape, we can then choose how far back
they go and just use vertical and horizontal lines to show how far back
they go, to show how far they recede, so we don't want them receding too far, so
it's sort of a shallow space at the back of the box, so in this way the drawing
starts to look complicated, but in actual fact it's really quite basic, but
hopefully the lines are roughly in the right place!
next up we can draw some vertical lines on the left and the right and a few more
lines coming from the vanishing point going left and going right
and then draw two lines, one either side on the left and on the right, going down
at an angle, sort of towards the horizon line in the middle and these two lines
are for the sides of the stairs,
now we can draw these stairs coming forward to us as well as they sort of
join up, so they start on the left and right and then they join up and then
come forward,
and as these stairs come forward they'll get wider, because they're getting nearer,
getting bigger, because obviously things look bigger when they're near us and
look further away as they recede towards the horizon line towards the vanishing point,
at this stage we have some of the basic structure in place for this drawing, we
have the back wall drawn in, with some depth to it and we have the side walls which
have some basic structural lines on them and then we have this sort of
extravagant stairs, sort of blocked in, so it's time to add a bit of detail on top
of this sort of structure, but much of the detail in this drawing is in fact
quite simple shapes which are just repeated, because I'm not going to draw
all the actual tiny little details, I'm going to simplify the details,
repeat them and by repeating them it will look hopefully like there's a lot
more detail than there really is, now it would be nice to add some people
in this drawing, so it's not just an empty hallway in an opera house,
we just need to draw some simple sketches of people that they're quite
small sketches and that will make the interior of the Opera House look a lot
bigger, if the people are quite small and if the people
that you draw a quick sketches, like quite a loose drawing that would probably be
better than putting in too much detail because if you put too much detail they
might look a bit, they need to look different to the building, so if they're
a bit looser in style, that will probably help,
as you draw the people, just these simple sketches of people,
they'll obviously get smaller as they go further back into the box into the Opera
House space, so they'll get really small by the time they're at the top of the
stairs and in the boxes at the very back and the back wall, there'll be some
people even smaller there for my drawing, I think I want to add
lots of people so there is an impression of a crowds rather than any real detail,
I think it's easier to draw lots of people than just one or two, because if
you draw one or two people then they might get too much focus on them, whereas
if you just sketch in lots of people it's sort of easier to make it seem like
a crowd!
I'm using a 4b pencil for this drawing so it's a soft pencil that gets nice and dark,
I'll definitely add some shading to make the drawing look more dramatic, an
interior of the Paris Opera House in the evening,
so sort of lights coming from different sources, but not from the Sun,
coming from lamps and lights which are off the image,
I hope you like this video in this drawing challenge
maybe have a go at doing a drawing like this!
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