Hi, Tom here and welcome to this week's video, how to draw using one-point
perspective, a floor and some archways, we can add some details at the end of this
drawing, in one-point perspective all parallel lines go away from us will look
as if they meet at the vanishing point which is a dot, a single point which is
always on the horizon line and the horizon is the same height as the eye of
the viewer of the image, first draw a horizontal line slightly above the
middle height of your page, next draw a mark for the single vanishing point that
we will need for this drawing, now draw another parallel horizontal
line towards the base of your page and along this line we can mark some evenly
spaced marks for the floor, next we can draw a series of straight lines from
this vanishing point in the center to each of these evenly spaced marks that
we've just made,
so these lines represent parallel lines, lines that don't get closer together but
they're in perspective, in one-point perspective, so that they actually look
as if they meet at the vanishing point,
as we extend these lines in a fan-like way to the left and the right
notice how the lines near as the horizontal line are almost horizontal
themselves and the lines which are in the centre are almost vertical,
next using one of the lines going towards our vanishing point we can make
some more marks, now each of these marks needs to be a little bit closer to the
next as they go towards the vanishing point, now we can carefully draw a series
of horizontal lines from each of these marks we have just made,
in this way we are drawing a grid of tiles in one point perspective,
now from this grid we can draw two vertical lines
and then find the middle in between these two lines
and draw a semi-circle for our arch,
from the straight line, the vertical line on the left, we can draw a
diagonal line going all the way to the vanishing point and then using this line
as a basis for where to start at the top of the line we can draw a third vertical
line going down to the floor to show where the archway stops and then for the
arch itself we can just copy the semi circle that we drew originally, but start
at the top of the third vertical line that we've just drawn,
so now we have our first arch, we can draw a wall either side
and using the vanishing point, the 1-point vanishing point that we have, we can find
the diagonal line for the base of the arch, because that diagonal line will go
straight towards the vanishing point,
once the arch is okay, that we've sort okay, we can move over to the right of
the drawing and draw another arch in this area, we can use the tiles on the
floor to find where to place this new arch and to make it the same distance
away from us as the first archway, which is what I'd like to do, we can just read
the horizontal lines across from the left to the right and then it will be
the same distance away from us,
once we erase some of the lines that we no longer need we could draw a person
in the arch on the left, their head would be at the height of the horizon line, the
first line that we drew, and to draw a simple person we can just make them
facing away from us, and maybe their hands are in front of them, so we can't
see their hands and arms, we just keep it nice and simple,
in this drawing she's sort of looking out to an endless perspective, so I'll
start to add some simple tonal values to her and a cast shadow a shadow that goes
away from her away from the source of light,
now the cast shadow will go horizontally from her feet, going left and then when
it touches the arch wall, as it were, it will change direction and start going
up the wall, next we can add a graded tone to the arch itself, starting right
in the corner on the right, with the darkest tone that your pencil can create,
for this drawing I'm using a 4b pencil, and then as you shade this area as you
pull the pencil away you can create a lighter tone by applying less pressure
to the pencil,
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for the next stage of this drawing I'll add another arch in the centre, I think, and lots more
details and some tonal values, more shading...
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