This one-point perspective exercise is specifically designed to help beginners practice the concept.
Steps:
1. Draw a horizon line on an empty sheet of paper, as high or as low as you like.
2. Then pick a vanishing point (VP) on that line. Remember, one-point perspective means one VP.
3. Next, use a ruler or other straight object to draw in a lot of convergence lines from the edges of the paper to the vanishing point.
Steps:
1. Draw a horizon line on an empty sheet of paper, as high or as low as you like.
2. Then pick a vanishing point (VP) on that line. Remember, one-point perspective means one VP.
3. Next, use a ruler or other straight object to draw in a lot of convergence lines from the edges of the paper to the vanishing point.
- Keep the lines light but visible enough for you to work with throughout this exercise.
- The lines don’t need to have the same distance from one another, so don’t worry about that. Draw quite a few, but of course not so many that you cannot keep them apart anymore.
4. Now start drawing some one-point perspective cubes into the scene.
6. Add color with color pencil.
- That means draw them as if you were looking at one of the flat surfaces (almost) entirely straight on, rather than at one of the corners.
- Anything above the horizon line will show a little of the underside of the object, because your eye level is below it, so you’re looking up at it. Anything below the horizon will show some part of the top, because you’re looking down.
- Think of what these cubes and cuboids could be in real life, rather than just boring boxes, and turn them into other objects. This could be a tissue box, a dice, an old-timey TV, an aquarium, a book, what have you.
6. Add color with color pencil.