One-Point Perspective Made Simple For Beginners #sketch # drawing #perspectivedrawing #painting, by AAA Watercolor on YouTube. 2 min 56 s.
- Video length
- 2 min 56 s
- Time to do it
- 20 minutes
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Steps
- 8
What you need
Steps
Draw a horizontal line across the middle of your page. This is your horizon line, and it stands for your eye level.
Mark one dot on the horizon line, roughly in the center. This is your vanishing point.
Draw a square or rectangle below the horizon line, off to one side. Keep the edges parallel to the page edges.
Use the ruler to draw a light line from each corner of the shape to the vanishing point.
Choose a point along each converging line and draw a new front edge between them, parallel to the original shape.
Erase the guide lines that run past the new front face. The shape now looks like a box in 3D.
Repeat with a shape above the horizon line. You will see its underside instead of its top.
Add a second box beside the first, sharing the same vanishing point, to check that all lines meet at one dot.
Tips and common mistakes
Keep guide lines light so they erase cleanly once the box is finished.
All receding edges must meet at the single vanishing point, or the box will look twisted.
Shapes below the horizon show their top, shapes above show their bottom, and shapes on the line show neither.
Questions
What is a vanishing point?
It is the single dot on the horizon line where all receding edges meet. In one-point perspective every depth line points to it.
Where should I put the horizon line?
Place it at the height of the viewer's eyes. Higher lines make you look down on objects, lower lines make you look up at them.
Do I need a ruler?
A ruler helps a lot at first because straight converging lines make the illusion convincing. You can draw freehand once the idea clicks.
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