step by step, in this video I'm going to show you one way to draw a

city in one-point perspective and to do that we're going to start with the

horizon line, which is a horizontal line which will be towards the bottom of the page

and that will be the line which will be between the sky and land and on

that we draw a dot in the center and then from that we draw an angle line

going towards the right and then another angle line, a diagonal line going towards the left,

now these two lines will be the road which are going towards the dot which is

the vanishing point.

now from this vanishing point in the center of the horizontal line

we need another line coming up towards the left

which will be the height of some of the buildings on the left hand side of

this street,

and then we'll need another line going towards the right which will be the

height of most of the tops of the buildings on the right hand side of

the street,

so we have a basic structure for the street already in place, now we'll put a

vertical line, starting on the diagonal, going down and then from that vertical

line right touch the diagonal line will draw a right angle line towards the right and

this will be the start of the side of one of the nearby buildings in our

street and then add another vertical line and then we have the side rectangle

of the nearest building, if I draw yet another vertical line again from the

diagonal, that will give me the length of the building and then I can draw a

triangle on the nearest side of the building and that will give me the pitch

of the roof,

next I need to work out the angle here that goes to the vanishing point, I won't

draw the line all the way along, just to some extent and sort of imagine it going

to the vanishing point, and then I'll copy the diagonal line of the pitch of the roof

for the further line of the pitch of the roof and therefore I got my first basic building,

next to go into another building which can be behind this first

building, with a tiny gap between two,

so the vertical line is slightly to the left of the far side vertical line of

the first building,

then I read it across and with the horizontal line and then I put another

pitched roof for the first few buildings,

I don't know why but they are going to have pitched roofs, and I'm sort of

visualizing the diagonal line going towards vertical without drawing it

all the way along,

and then I need to work out here if there's going to be any part of the side

of the roof that I'm going to see, so it's gonna be a really small thin sliver

of the roof, but I'll put it in any way and I can work that out again by reading

to the vanishing point, now on the left hand side I need some buildings here so

I'll put a vertical line quite close to the left hand side and then I'll put

another vertical line and that this will be the facade of the first building that

will draw on the left hand side,

now this budding divided into equal stripes and all of these will be like

floors of the building which will go, if they were continuous lines, to the

vanishing point,

and then I also use this technique to create the tops of the doors or maybe

the bottoms of the windows or tops of the windows on the right hand side,

just by putting some lines and diagonal lines, which again will always go towards

the vanishing point, if they were to continue from where they are,

so, next I will put a little door in here for the nearest building on the right

hand side and then on the left-hand side I'll sort of echo that and put a door

structure here, reading across from the vanishing point to find out where the

top of the door goes, the angle of the top of the door, and it's just up to me

where the vertical line will go, and then I'm going to extend the vertical line on

the left-hand side to make this building taller,

indeed I'll make the building to the left of it taller, because that will make

it seem nearer and then I'm going to place another building, again not right

next to the building of stripes, but a little gap in between it and then the

far wall of it as well and these vertical lines always need to be

vertical like the sides of your paper,

the left and right hand sides your paper, now this building, I'm going to make it a

little bit more complicated

so I put a little roof in here, like a pitch roof triangle and then I can read

across from the tops of these to the left

that sort of 90 degree angles, so that they're parallel to the horizontal line

that we did earlier on, and then that will create the top of the build and

then, I am imagining this as some sort of church,

I might put a window in here so I'm working out from the other diagonal

lines I have already got, and knowing where the vanishing point is, I'm working out the

top and the bottom of the window first, because I know that the vertical lines

are just going to be vertical,

I'll put in some small markings within the window, just to show that it's an

area which has some complexity to it, and then below the window I need some sort

of door or entranceway to this building and, I've made it quite large here,

I'll probably put in in a doorway or some stairs in here,

just to break it down into a more reasonable size

quite often churches you have a big door and within the big door there is a smaller door,

anyway I'm just making up these buildings, as sort of interesting shapes and here

I'm going to divide this building up in to vertical lines and I think this will

help with the structure of this building,

next on the right hand side

I think I need a few more buildings, so again I'm going to do a vertical line

which isn't touching the previous line and then I just top and tail it with a

right angle going towards the right, then that will be the side of the building,

and then I'll work out where the top of this new building go and how far back it

will go, I don't go too near to the horizontal line and the vanishing point

because otherwise it will look like an endless building, so you can stop these buildings quite short

by making the vertical lines quite close to each other, particularly as they get

nearer and nearer to the vanishing point,

and here I will just put in some windows, it's quite a good idea when you're doing

windows, as you do the vertical lines on them, that you just read them down so

that the windows on the buildings that you're producing are symmetrical and in

line with each other,

it will just look, make it look more like a building, so here on the left I feel

that I need a taller building, so I might just increase the size of some

aspects of this building on the left

and here the line this that I've just put in would be going more or less to

the vanishing point and then here's yet another vertical line and I think

rather than have this just a box like, cuboid shape,

I need to put some lines on its like the lines in the lower part of the building,

but I'll do these lines a little bit nearer to each other than the first time that I

did it

and again I'm reading from the vanishing point, so I can sort of visualize it in

my mind's eye where these lines would end up,

they're not doing all the structure lines or scaffolding lines because I'm

just using a pen on paper and if I did all the working out lines, it would get

too complicated for you and me, so I just sort of making it up as they go along,

which means that every line that I do, I need to keep, so these lines on the, going

towards the left, which are horizontal, they're nice and straight forward lines

and they give some solidity to the building, so we've got a corner of

building there and then beyond the church and do some smaller buildings or

some of them will be smaller, but some of them will just be smaller because they're

further away, but they might actually be bigger buildings than the buildings that are

nearer, I think that would be quite fun to do,

so some of the buildings can be above the line that's we originally did,

which was the line which showed where most of the buildings will stop and here I think

on the left hand side I will draw two big panels, not quite sure what they are, but

they'll just make the nearest part of the building seemed quite up close,

because they're bigger shapes and then here towards the vanishing point I'll do

some smaller buildings, again a gap that's pretty small building there so it

may be in the next building a bit taller and then I'll just extend that above the

line and then it's quite nice I think, when buildings sort of tucked behind

other buildings, it gives a nice sense of space and you can create this space that

you wish to achieve, so on the left-hand side I think I have a taller building which is

far away

the base of the skyscraper, so put that in, it's a bit like a cereal box and then I'll

do the lines along here,

so because we've got most of the shapes in now I'm going to speed up this video

a little bit,

we're about, just over nine minutes into the video, so I just put in the

pavements of the streets along the either side here,

so a lot of the things from this stage on I'm just repeating so on the

right-hand side I put a big box shape...

and then on the left hand side

I"ll make this tower, this skyscraper, quite thin, and have a little gap in

between itself and the building to its left, just to create some tension

and then put some lines down on one side of the building and not really a new

shading but I just give the illusion of shading and tone a little bit, by how

close I keep some of the lines, so along in this building on the right,

I just do a few dashes at the top and then I can read those lines down and

then I get some, repeated, some windows and then just put a roof on this early

building, I think on the right hand side I'm going to have to invent something on

the first building that I did, just to make it look a bit more complicated

because it's got the structural lines of the first few lines that we did on the

drawing, on left hand side, with this church, I'm doing some horizontal lines

which are diagonal, because they are in perspective, going to the vanishing point

putting the roofs and not making them jet black, but just putting them making

them a little bit darker by adding lines to them and again

vertical lines on this building and then horizontal lines going towards the

vanishing point, so at this stage I'm trying to get some scale to the buildings,

I think I want to make it a little bit more dramatic, so I'm going to put some

more buildings in the background as I speed up this video a little bit more again,

because the next stage really is just to put many many more windows in and

they'll need to follow the rules the basic structure of a one-point perspective

drawing, which is keeping all the verticals vertical, all the horizontal

horizontal and then all the lines which are horizontal but are going away from

us at an angle, they'll need to end up at the vanishing point, so it's a simplified way

of seeing things

it's not really what reality looks like, but it's quite a useful thing,

it is a useful way to depict 3-dimensional scene with piece of paper

and a pen in a two-dimensional way, so speeding along here you can see the

developments of putting more and more buildings in,

well I hope you liked this video and I hope it's useful for your own drawing!

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