Hi Tom here in this week's Circle Line Art School video I'll show you one way to
draw a street scene in one point perspective, please subscribe to keep up
to date with all the content that I make, first draw a horizontal line just below
the middle of your page, next we can draw a vanishing point to the right of the
center of the page, on the horizon line, we will use this vanishing point to draw
a building on the left, so we need some lines going left one below the horizon
line and one above the horizon line,
now we can draw a vertical line between these two diagonal lines for the corner of a building
next draw another diagonal line below the top line,
now using the vertical line, draw a short line going left and then another short
line going right, parallel to the horizon line, we can use these two short lines to
make the overhang of the building and the overhang of the roof,
draw another vertical going down from the short line then we'll have, then we
need one more diagonal for the overhang of the top floor of the building and one
more line for the edge of the roof,
in one point perspective vertical lines
stay vertical, but lines and edges of things that are going away from us,
that are receding, will be going towards a single vanishing point, if they are parallel lines,
we could draw a series of small windows and divide the top of the building into a series
of smaller structures
as we already have the basic shape,
for this drawing we need to leave space the lower part of the building, so that
we can add a car or a bus on the road later on,
next draw a series of boxes in perspective
for some distant buildings, again the sides of the buildings which are all
parallel to each other, they are parallel lines as well, but they look like they
are receding and getting closer together as they recede all the way to the vanishing point,
next we could add a small group of buildings in the middle of the drawing,
using vertical and horizontal lines to make a sort of rectangle and using the
vanishing point for the diagonal lines, for the lines of the side of the
building that are going away from us,
for this rectangle we could add a roof and maybe a poster display and a few
buildings behind the front one,
it's always easier to draw the buildings behind the first building because
they're sort of partly obscured or hidden by the building in the foreground,
so these buildings and distance can just be sketched in,
so far all the buildings are parallel and so use the first vanishing point,
the single vanishing point that we've used so far in this one point perspective drawing,
but now we can add another vanishing point for some buildings on the right,
that are also in one point perspective, but as they're not parallel to the first
group of buildings on the left they need a new vanishing point, as long as the
vanishing point is on the horizon line, on your horizon line, then that's fine,
so for the next group of buildings I'll draw them in a similar way to the first
group, the first group of buildings that we draw on the left, start with some
diagonal lines and then we could add a vertical line in between for the corner of the building
we could use the two horizontal lines, the two short horizontal lines again for
the overhang of the building and the roof,
we could add some tonal values at this stage to the top of the buildings only,
for this drawing I'm using a 4b pencil,
smaller buildings in the distance can just be indicated, implied, using a single
vanishing point for each building, so each building is in one point
perspective and each building only uses one of our vanishing points,
and in the background I think I'll add a building with some domes, with some
points on top of the domes, so a big building very far away,
now using the original vanishing point we can draw a few more lines for a road
coming towards us, I think for this drawing I'll draw a bus
on the left, to do this start by thinking about where the bus will go and
then draw two lines going towards the vanishing point, for the top and bottom
of the bus that are going away from us, and we need to use the same vanishing
point that the roads on, because the bus is going to be more or less parallel to
the road, now draw a big rectangle for the front of the bus, taller than it is wide,
we could add a curved top to the bus
too, so it's not just a box shape, choose carefully how long you want the bus to
be, don't make it too short and definitely don't make it too long,
in perspective you have to think if it goes all the way to the Horizon it's
basically endless, so a really long train would go all the way to horizon but a
bus would be quite a lot shorter, once you have the basic shape you can
add the wheels, the bus wheels are pretty big and remember we're looking at the
wheels at an angle, so they'll sort of be looking at the side and each wheel will
have a thickness too, next we can move on and draw a car, start with the front of
the car, just a rectangle for the front forward part of the car and then we
could draw the baseline of the windscreen and in the line of the top of the windscreen,
and a curve for the roof of the top of the car,
and then by using our vanishing point again we can draw the lines for the side
of the car, which will go towards the vanishing point,
once you have the basic shape you could add some details, some headlights
and some wheels,
on the right I think I'll draw a man standing next to a bike, a push bike,
to do this just draw two thin wheels which are quite tall, as he is quite near
us, quite near, close to us, and then we can just sketch in a very simple person,
a head and some baggy clothes and just a line for the base of the foot, now I
think it's time to erase some of the guidelines, to clear up the drawing a
little bit, the next stage is to add some more tonal values to this drawing,
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