Hello, my name is Tom McPherson and
welcome to my new video on How to Draw
in two point perspective, the first step
is to draw a horizontal line that
represents the line between the sky and
the land, next we need to draw two
vanishing points on this horizontal line,
now we can draw a vertical line in the
middle of these two vanishing points,
next we can draw a line from the left
vanishing point to the base of the
vertical line and then another line to
the top of the vertical line, this will
create a triangle and we can imagine
this as a very long wall, now we can
repeat these two diagonal lines, but this
time going to the right of the picture,
so we have another wall which is very
long, going all the way to the right
vanishing point,
next we can add a road, by drawing two
diagonal lines from the left vanishing point,
going towards, and all the way down, to the
bottom of the page, it will just look
like a triangle at this stage but we can
make it like a road later on, we can then
repeat this process and draw two more
lines from the right vanishing point to
the base of the page on the right-hand side
so now we already have the basic
structure for all of the detail, we can
start to add some of that detail now,
we can start by drawing a vertical line
either side of the central vertical line
that we drew earlier on, by drawing two
more vertical lines
we're stopping these two walls be
endless walls, now from the point where
the new vertical line touches diagonal
line on the left we can draw a new line
for a new road that goes towards the
left of the page but if we read these
lines back they would go to the right
vanishing point, we can draw two lines on
the left and then two lines on the right,
either side of this main block which
will be our first building,
which is in the center of the page
next we can draw two lines to the left, where the two roads cross,
and then repeat this on the right of the
drawing too
and then by reading the line across from
the right vanishing point, we can find the
base of the two lines on the left
again we can repeat this on the
right hand side of the drawing, because this
drawing is basically symmetrical so
whatever idea on the left-hand side of
the drawing, I do something very similar
or the same on the right-hand side too
now we can make these two new areas into
two arched bridges, I just add a double line
and then I find the center of the top line,
and mark that halfway, and draw a
curve to make the arch bridge, again I
can repeat what I've done on the
left-hand side of the page onto the
similar shape on the right-hand side
now from each vanishing point
can draw more lines to the bottom
of the page and that will create,
either side of the bridge, a little path or road
I could possibly make
these into canals rather than roads,
because they are lower down, or I could keep
them as roads
now, in this drawing,
all the other buildings in the
center of the drawing will have one
vertical line each, for the corner of the
building and then one side of the
building will have diagonal lines going
towards the left finishing point, which
if they continued would all touch the left
vanishing point and then the other side
of all the buildings in the center of
this drawing will go towards the right
vanishing point and again if the lines could
continue they would end up at the right
vanishing point exactly
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can see how this drawing develops over time...
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Hello again! so it took me about an hour
to draw to get to this stage and now we
need to have some lines to the building
to indicate the floors and create a sense
of scale to the drawing as well, again
all the diagonal lines for each of the
floors will continue to be straight and
go into the left vanishing point or the right
vanishing point in this two point
perspective drawing, at this stage in the
drawing we can add some smaller details,
for example around the arch on the
right-hand side I can add a keystone and
a double thickness, we could add some
areas for the road, again all the road
and the road areas will be diagonal lines,
ending at the vanishing points,
I will add a row of trees on the right
and to do this I just need to draw one
small tree so that it fits within the
context of the size of the buildings and
then all the other trees that I can draw
behind it will just be small sketch like
shapes and maybe when I put shadows on
them I can define them a little bit more
I want to add some shading to this
drawing, so I imagine that the sun will
be on the left hand side of the page and
therefore all the shadows will be cast
onto the right-hand side of everything!
next add some tone with a 4B pencil that
I'm using, a graded tone to each of the
buildings at a diagonal angle so that it
looks reflective, like they're glass
buildings or metallic buildings,
I make the pencil dip into and out of darkness
in a gradual way, by holding the pencil
at one angle and just pressing more
firmly, as I pull it away, or more softly,
depending on if I want it darker or lighter,
so this is the basic drawing, but at this
stage I decide I want to go over all of
the lines that have drawn with a pen,
because I want to make it darker and
more tonal, that's basically simple, but
it'll take a little bit of time to do, so
I just need to go over all the lines
that I have already drawn,
this will allow me to make the shadows
in the drawing very dark because I can
just fill them in with a black pen and I
can also perhaps represent some texture
with the black pen by shading different
buildings in different techniques so
some buildings I could shade with just
some diagonal lines with a pen,
other ones, I could block them in with a black
thickness, and then some I could make
black and white, with a zig-zag sort of
of shape going through them, I can just
experiment on different buildings,
to shade them in in different ways,
towards the end of this drawing
I can add some even smaller details for
example some individual windows or tiny
cars or even tinier people, they need to
be really small, because the small I make
these small things
the bigger the buildings will seem!
which sort of makes sense, if it's going to be a city,
that we want the building to be
really big and the people to be small
and cars just a bit bigger than the
people and again with all these things
I will made the shadows go on the
right-hand side...
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