Hello my name is Tom McPherson and
welcome to my new Circle Line art School
video, How to Draw in 5-Point Perspective,
this is a drawing based on
Times Square in New York, I'll add some
color with some pencils and pens towards the
end of the drawing,
the first step is to draw a horizontal
line in the middle of the page and then
the vertical line in the middle of this
horizontal line, next draw a mark or a across
at the end of each of these lines and
then one more cross in the middle, now we
can draw a curved line between the two
horizontal vanishing points, to find the
baseline of a building, next mark a dot
on this base line towards the right and
then we can draw a vertical curve line
through this dot, using the two vertical
vanishing points will use this to make
one of the edges of the first building,
next add another vertical curve to the
right of this first curved line and this
will be the right-hand edge of the
building, and then we can draw a
horizontal curve and this will be the
top of the building, as it would look
distorted in five point perspective,
in 5-point perspective we're really
looking up and down and straight head
and left and right all at the same time!
it's like a wide angle lens that things
towards the edge of the picture should look
distorted, I will darken these lines so that
you can see how far we've got in drawing
this side of the building, now we can add
the fifth central vanishing point and draw
two straight lines to make the left-hand
side of the building,
if we now draw one more vertical curve
we have completed our first building in
five point perspective, I will make the
lines darker and a long wall going
towards the center vanishing point and
then I'll draw a second building, a little
bit further away, using exactly the same
technique as the first building
now to draw a thin building in the center of this image
I would just have to distort the
vertical lines going to left and going
to the right and then the top and the
bottom line of the building will again
be slightly curved
and now I can draw a building on the
left using the curved vertical lines and
curves horizontal lines that I used on the
right-hand side
adding straight lines that go towards
the center vanishing point, as that's our central
point we're looking at
in five point perspective the guidelines
will make a pattern a bit like an onion
cut in half
I'll speed this drawing up now so that
you can see how to draw and develops
over time
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I will now add some pen lines over all the
buildings and then darken the sky with a
black pen
and add some color of some colored
pencils for the bright lights of Times Square
and also draws some long lines to
represent the car tail-lights, I can draw
some people in too, just little blobs that
get smaller as they get further away from the
front of the front of the picture,
Thank you very much for watching this
art tutorial on 5-Point Perspective
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Keep drawing and see next time!