Hi, Tom here with this week's Circle
Line Art School video, I'll show you one
way to draw a city road in perspective,
for this drawing draw a horizontal line
first across the middle of your page,
next we can draw two vertical lines for
the corner of a building in the
foreground on the right,
next, if we draw a cross on the far left,
this cross meet our vanishing point and
parallel lines that are going towards
that direction will look as if they meet,
if they went all the way to the
vanishing point, and we can use this to
draw two lines for the top and bottom of
the doorway,
next we can make our vertical lines into
double lines,
next we can add one more parallel line
for the top of the door, now this
horizontal line will be a diagonal line
going towards the vanishing point,
because we're looking at it from an
angle in perspective, we can add a curve,
a semicircle, for the top of the archway
for our door, next if we draw a second
vanishing point on the right that will
make this drawing into a two point
perspective drawing rather than the
one-point perspective drawing, meaning
we're looking left and right at the
building's rather than just left, we can
use this second vanishing point to find
the sides of the doorway step in front
of the doorway,
we can also add at this stage a
thickness to the arch on the left, now
we're going to see the thickness on the
left because that's the way that we're
looking, that's the direction of our view
and to get the shape of it
we just need to repeat the side of the
arch that we've already drawn, now the
sides of the step are parallel and they
will look as if they meet at our
vanishing point, if these lines were to
continue all the way to the horizon,
I'll make this corner of the building
taller just by extending these two, the
first two vertical lines, that we drew
for the right-hand side of this building
in the foreground we're looking straight
on at the right-hand side in parallel
lines the horizontal parallel lines
won't be in perspective because we're
looking straight at the wall, it's not at
an angle to us, it's straight on at us,
once the basic shape of this first
building are in place we can next add
some details,
for the left-hand side of the building
which is in perspective, going to the
left-hand vanishing point, we can use the
vanishing point to find all of the top
and bottom horizontal lines for any
windows that we need,
but all the vertical lines will stay
vertical and parallel to the vertical
line of the edge of the paper that we're
drawing on, so next we can add some
windows and draw some of the details
of this sandstone building, based on the
roads in the old town of Edinburgh,
next we can draw a sweeping curve for
the curve of a road, now this road is
going downhill, and it's curving so we
just need to draw a natural curve that
gets narrower as it goes towards the
vanishing point and gets wider as it
comes towards us, we could also add more
curves for either side of the edge of
the pavement of the road, the next step
in this drawing is to add a variety of
tall thin buildings, the vertical sides
of all of the buildings should be
parallel to the vertical sides of the
paper that you're drawing on,
because although these buildings are on
a hill which is going down, the vertical
sides of them will stay upright,
we can also draw a variety of different
roofs and chimneys for the tops of the
buildings, this drawing is based on some
of the streets in Edinburgh Old Town,
Edinburgh has some wonderful
architecture, a great variety of
inventive buildings and in the old town
it's on a hill so we're always looking
down or looking up at these very tall
buildings which are quite compact and
they have different sort of shapes at
the top of them and different windows
within them as well,
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