How to draw A Room in One-Point

How to draw A Room in One-Point

What you need

• Drawing paper Cartridge or sketch paper with a little tooth.
• Blue pencil A light blue col-erase pencil, or a very light HB.
• Graphite pencils HB and 2B; a 4B or 6B for the darkest darks.
• Kneaded eraser Press and lift; pinch it to a point for highlights.
• Sharpener A sharp point makes cleaner hatching.

Step by step

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   01

   Placement

   The frame and your eye level

   Draw the frame of your picture. Then the horizon at your eye level, and one vanishing point on it, straight ahead of you.

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   02

   Big shapes

   The back wall and the corners

   The back wall faces you: draw it as a true rectangle. Then run the room’s four corners from the vanishing point to the frame.

3. 
   03

   Construction

   Tile the floor with one diagonal

   Tick equal widths along the back wall’s base and run lines from the vanishing point through them. One diagonal then spaces every row.

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   04

   Construction

   Heights along the walls

   Measure heights on the back wall’s corners and carry them forward along lines to the vanishing point. The window’s diagonals find its centre.

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   05

   Construction

   The bed is a box

   Count tiles for the bed’s footprint: three across, four back. Its foot faces you, drawn true; its long edges run to the vanishing point.

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   06

   Construction

   Commit the lines, lift the blue

   Now graphite, corner to corner: the nearest edges firmest, the back wall lighter, the tiles faint. Then lift every blue line.

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   07

   Light and shadow

   A value for every plane

   Light comes from the window on the left. Give each plane its own value: the window wall darkest, the wall facing the window lightest.

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   Light and shadow

   The bed and its shadow

   The bed’s side turns away from the window and goes dark. Its shadow falls right, its long edge running to the vanishing point.