Perspective Examples
Understanding linear perspective
One Point Perspective
One-point perspective refers to a point converging on a plane. If you look down a long road, the sides of the road will seem join together at some point in the distance. This point is the vanishing point. When you draw using one-point perspective, all the lines that move away from you will appear to converge on this point. The lines that go up and down, and left and right will be unaffected.
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One To draw a tunnel, start by drawing a horizon line across the middle of your paper. Choose a point to be the vanishing point. |
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four Why not choose another tunnel just beyond the first one? Use the same technique as before, and then erase all the lines that don't belong in your final drawing. |
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two Draw the tops and bottoms of your walls. These will be diagonal lines that converge on the vanishing point. |
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This is a student drawing of a high-school hallway. |
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three Choose a place to draw the end of the tunnel. Make sure that the walls are straight, and that the roof is drawn between the tops of the two walls. |
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This box is in the middle of a road, so all of the perspective lines will be on the bottom of the page |
Two Point Perspective
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One-point perspective is great if you happen to be looking directly at the front of something, but what if your subject is turned to the side? Then you need two point perspective! In two point perspective, there are two vanishing points on the horizon line. Every line except vertical ones will converge onto one of the two vanishing points. |
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one Let's say you want to draw a city block. Draw a horizon line, and place two vanishing points along it. |
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four Now draw in guidelines to make other buildings on the block. Remember, every non-vertical line must converge on one of the two vanishing points. |
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two Let's start with the first building. Draw a vertical line that will be the edge closest to you. Then draw the guidelines for the roof and bottom of the building. |
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five Finally, erase the guidelines that you don't need, and get ready to add windows, cars, people, and what-ever else fills your imagination |
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three Distance is tricky: divide the bottom line in half, and then in half again, and then in half again. This will make it seem as if equal-sized buildings are next to each other. |
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Remember, if something is very flat and you can see the top of it, then all of the perspective lines are going to be under the horizon line. |
Three Point Perspective
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Three-point perspective is probably the most challenging of all. In three point perspective, every right-angle line in the drawing will eventually converge on one of three perspective points. This can look distorted if the vanishing points are two close together, but if they are far enough apart, three-point perspective is the most accurate way of drawing the world around you in three dimensions. |
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one Let's draw a simple box. Draw a horizon line across your page. Place two vanishing points on the line, and one more above or below it. |
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four The far edges of the box can be found by drawing lines from the ends of the front edges, back to the vanishing points. |
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two Chose a point where you would like to put the corner closest to you. |
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five Erase the guidelines and you are left with a great-looking box! |
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three Draw a line from the corner back to each of the vanishing points to make the edges of the box. Make marks along these lines to indicate how long each edge is. |
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See what happens when you do one box each below and above the horizon line? |
