Hi, Tom here welcome to this week's Circle Line Art School video: How to Draw
using one-Point Perspective, in this video I'll show you one way to draw a road,
a railway track and some houses, all in 1-point perspective, the first step is to
draw a horizontal line for the horizon, in the middle of your page, in one-point
perspective the two sides of a straight road will look like they meet somewhere
on this horizon line, the point where they meet is called the vanishing point,
so we can draw a cross for the vanishing point here on the left, from this
vanishing point we need to draw two straight lines to the bottom of the page,
this will look a bit like a triangle this will be a triangle, but it
represents also a road going to the horizon, in this drawing all the lines
that are parallel to this first road will go exactly towards this single
vanishing point, but we can also draw another vanishing point, on the
right-hand side of this drawing, again draw two lines from this vanishing point
to the base of the page,
now we can make this second triangle into a railway line going into the
distance, into its own vanishing point, so although this is one-point perspective,
we have, in a way, two drawings in one, so one point perspective on the left hand
side and then another one point perspective on the right hand side of
the paper, we can add three more lines to each of the diagonal lines on the train
track, so three of these lines are for the metal, the steel line of the actual
track itself and then the outside line is a guideline for the railroad ties,
the sleepers of the train track, so we need an outside line on each side of the
railroad track, next we can draw a series of horizontal lines for the railroad
ties, using the two outer diagonal lines as guidelines, also making the lines
closer together, these horizontal lines, making them closer together as they go
way towards the horizon, I'm drawing these horizontal lines in sort of pairs
of lines, so the railroad ties, or sleepers, need to go under the lines of
the steel rail tracks, the diagonal lines going to the vanishing point,
so the railroad ties are the horizontal lines and then the steel rail tracks are
the diagonal lines going to the vanishing point, now for each of these
horizontal pairs of lines we can draw as short vertical line, sort of at the end
of each of the lower pairs of lines and then we can join these little vertical
lines up, with a new horizontal line, again, going underneath the diagonal lines,
which go to the vanishing point and this will be for the edge for the thickness
of the railroad ties themselves, next we can shade in these sides, so that each of
the ties or sleepers has a dark side to its base, now shade on the left-hand side
of the steel track and then on the left hand side, those
cast shadows, the shadow coming off the steel track, will sort of be higher on
the ties or sleepers and lower on the spaces in between the sleepers, now we
can erase the outer guidelines of the railroad ties, as we no longer need them,
now in the middle of this drawing we can draw a house in one point perspective,
first draw a rectangle for the side of the house and then a simple triangle for
the roof,
we can erase the horizontal line inside the rectangle, we no longer need that,
next we need to choose just one of our vanishing points, as this is a drawing in
one point perspective, so I will choose the vanishing point on the left, so this
house will be parallel to the left hand road and all of the diagonal lines for
the side of the house will only go to the vanishing point on the left hand
side, so this house is in one point perspective, the same 1-point
perspective as the road,
next, choose how far back you want the house to go and then we can draw a
vertical line, at that point, we can now copy the front diagonal line of the roof
to redraw this line, as the back of the roof, using the same angle as we have on
the front, now we could add a simple extension to this house,
first of all just draw a vertical line on the left, next we need to find out
where this vertical line can be on the right, the sort of right hand side, to do
that just draw the back line of the house and then we can add a diagonal
line from the vanishing point, going to the right hand corner of the house, next,
where these two lines meet, at this point we can draw a vertical line going up and
this will be the corner of the house extension on the right, next we can draw
a triangle for the roof
and then, if we read the lines across to the vanishing point,
the vanishing point that we're using on the left, we just need to add a back line here,
a vertical line for the back of this building...
then we can draw another separate building, in exactly the same way as the first...
I think I'll add a taller building in the distance here too...
next we can erase some of the guideline longer need,
be careful not to erase guidelines that you do need, just to raise the guidelines
that you don't need!
now, on the left-hand side of this drawing,
again we're using only the left-hand vanishing point for this one-point
perspective drawing on the left-hand side of the paper,
so all of these buildings, the verticals of all of these buildings, will be
straight lines, vertical straight lines, but the diagonals will all go to the
single one point, the single vanishing point for this side of the drawing...
because all of these buildings are parallel to the road and the road uses
this one single vanishing point, once you have completed some simple
buildings on the left-hand side we could draw a pavement edge from the left-hand
vanishing point to the middle of the drawing and then make a little short
vertical line for the corner of the pavement, now, next we can repeat this and
draw the thickness of the pavement going to the right vanishing point, I think in
this drawing, this will be the only shape this pavement shape will be the only
shape that uses both the left and the right vanishing points, the rest of the
drawing will either use the left vanishing point or the right vanishing
point, never the both together, next we can draw some more rectangles for more
buildings on the right-hand side of the drawing, now all of these must use only
the right vanishing point, the single one-point vanishing point on the right,
as they're all in one point perspective but the one point are all the parallel
lines which are parallel to the railway track that we drew at the beginning of
the drawing...
so now on the far right we can draws some more simple buildings using our
technique of one-point perspective to make this two-dimensional drawing look
more three-dimensional, more 3D,
next we can add some details to our drawing, if you divide the horizontal
line into even parts on the left here, on this building, we can then draw lines
from these marks to the vanishing points on the left and then in that way we
create some floors for the building, a vanishing point is essential for
perspective drawing, it is the point that is at the height of the eye of the
viewer of the image, so in this drawing, which is just some made-up imaginary
buildings and roads, we're looking at it from a certain height and that height is
the height of the horizon, the first line that we drew in this drawing,
now all the tops of the doors, if they are going away from us on a diagonal, all
the tops of doors will be all along one diagonal line and that's the way that
you find out how high each door is, as it goes away from you, you just draw a
diagonal line from the top of the front door, the nearest door to us, all the way
to the vanishing point and then any other doors that you want to draw will
go up to this diagonal line,
next we could draw a signpost
in the middle of our drawing, the sign of the signpost could be
parallel to either the left or the right vanishing point, I think I'll choose the
left vanishing point and this means at the top and the bottom parts of the sign
need to go diagonally straight to the vanishing point on the left, next we
could draw a dustbin or a garbage can, just an ellipse, a squash circle on its
base and then vertical sides and then another series of ellipses for the lids
of the garbage can, we could draw some elliptical bands around the dustbin or
garbage can too, now we could add a thickness to the
pavement edge, the pavement edge is the one thing that's in two point
perspective, so it needs to be going to the left vanishing point and also to the
right vanishing point, next on the left we could draw a
crossing, a zebra crossing, that is two horizontal lines and then we can divide
that, we can divide these two horizontal lines into a series of segments and each
of these segments lines goes towards our single vanishing point,
we could add some small poles and wires in this drawing, some aerials and
radio masts, things like that...
we could also add some electrical wires along the railway too...
again in perspective the tops of the wires will be a line that goes directly
to the vanishing point, a diagonal line leads to the vanishing point, then they
will be in one point perspective, I think I'll make this building here a little
bit taller, so it goes above the wires I've just drawn,
for this drawing, because of the shading on the railway track is on the left-hand
side, I'll keep that continuity and shade the
building's in on their left hand side too, for this drawing I'm using
4B pencil, any soft dark pencil will do well...
I think I'll shade these squares on the left and this door on this building on
the left too, along here we can add some diagonal
blending, graded blending, sort of going from dark to light and then dark again,
just by changing the pressure of the amount of pressure that you put on the pencil,
in a drawing like this, I think often you can keep finding small new areas where
you can add little bits of detail, it's always a balance to not do too much
detail and not too little detail, it's just a personal preference of finding
things that you think will be interesting to draw, but also will help
the overall drawing, so you're looking at details, but also you're thinking about
how those details will relate to the overall image, to make it so that it's an
interesting drawing to look at and when you look at parts of the drawing, your
eyes sort of led to other parts in the drawing, so it becomes a drawing that's
interesting to look at, because of the connections within the drawing, sort of
the connections embedded within the drawing,
now all of these buildings and objects will have cast shadows, that is shadows
that aren't on the object, but they are thrown from the object by the light
source, now in this drawing the light source is on the right, so all the cast
shadows will go towards the left hand side, I'll start by drawing some faint
outlines of where these cast shadows will go towards the left
and then we can fill in these shadows, basically, with, probably, best to do quite
a flat tone, so a tone that's quite even, as shading that's quite even it
doesn't sort of modulate between light and dark, it stays quite flat, so anyway
we'll just block in some cast shadows...
I think I will add a few more details, just a few finishing touches to this drawing,
the edge of the pavement, where we're looking both right and left at the same
time, so if you look at the pavement, you're sort of, you can see it going left
and see it going right, but if you look at the buildings, either they're going
to the right vanishing point, in one point perspective, or they're going to
the left vanishing point in one point perspective,
so really it's two drawings in one!
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