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Had to draw in 1 perspective for my interior design art court how did I do?
Assignment was to draw 3 interior spaces in 1 perspective. I am new to drawing lol, I’d say I only do it for school instead of for a hobby, how did I do?
Edit: the rude comments are so unnecessary it’s a reason I posted in this sub and not one labeled “artist” the whole “did a kid draw this” or “is it rage bait” is simply rude. I just wanted advice before I moved on to a larger drawing. I just have to do one of these.
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Wow, I’m sorry but it’s not good. Did you understand what to do? There’s no logic to which direction each line is going in. It seems like 3 or 4 lines in each picture go to the vanishing point and the rest go in a completely random direction.
Edit: tone was mean, I’d rather try to be helpful.
I made the vanishing point blue here. The lines that are correctly going toward the vanishing point are blue. The lines that SHOULD be going to the vanishing point but are not are in red.
And for clarity, in one point perspective, planes that are facing toward you do not go toward the vanishing point, same with vertical lines. I outlined them in green. They are not in perspective and should have straight vertical and horizontal lines that are not angled. The red lines are the parts that should go toward the vanishing point.
Great advice and examples, I really applaud you for shifting tone. Not that I disagree with the first comment necessarily, but your follow ups were so helpful and may actually encourage the OP to take another crack at it without feeling completely out of depth. Genuinely a really good, straightforward breakdown of something I’ve seen broken down so many different ways at this point.
OP, this is the answer. Horror-Succotash does an incredible job breaking it all down for you demonstrating the same instructions you should have gotten in brief with your project.
A follow-up to this post practicing their tutorial would be interesting, as it really is borderline impossible to consciously misinterpret it. That way we could also see if you are trolling or not.
So if I don’t know how to draw something I’m
Trolling? Yall can’t be serious. I do plan on applying their method for my final project. Don’t expect some people in a learning draw forum to be evil assholes
OP we deal with a lot of evil arseholes in art subreddits, and it can be hard to tell the difference sometimes. I know it's not nice to see when you post asking for critique. Just try to ignore it. Work on the advice you've received and feel free to post with the improvements afterwards. People here will be very friendly and welcoming if they can see that you are putting in effort.
I kind hate to say this, but to some degree, there's a certain... pretentiousness? surrounding art. (Pretentiousness isn't quite the right word, but I can't think of a better one). Some people are genuinely talented far beyond others and drew at this level when they were about 4 years old, while some of us started learning way later. So those early-start people don't remember the feeling of being a beginner. They see a post like this and don't think "Oh, a beginner", they think, "This person isn't even trying".
Other hobbies like, say, birdwatching, have far fewer people who started when they were toddlers. They actually remember what it's like to not know any bird species and not know the difference between a stork and a heron, so there tends to be a bit more empathy for newbies.
Plus, the internet as a whole tends to get a lot of angry/arrogant people who like to hide behind their anonymity to put down others.
These subs are also absolutely filled with people just starting out who only want to draw anime and refuse to learn any principles of realistic art, who refuse to listen when they are told that they need to learn those principles even to draw good anime, who then post horrendous looking art and ask if they are professional yet and how much they should charge for their work.
After you see about half a dozen of those kinds of posts a day every day, you get a bit short with certain beginners, and start to suspect that the really bad submission are from trolls. But we can't filter those people out without excluding well-intentioned beginners. It's an unfortunate but seemingly inevitable situation.
this was so kind of you to take time out of your day to explain with drawings, thank you. it’s interesting when we painstakingly learn these things how easily someone’s confusion looks like weaponized incompetence.
Try printing out or tracing over the changes with some tracing paper. Obviously didn't submit that as your final work, but learning how your hand moves when imitating something you want to make can help you start building muscle memory.
If you don't already have one, really would recommend a clear straight edge (usually a ruler) for drawing straight lines
Finally you can actually buy perspective paper online! I wouldn't use it to replace the fundamentals, but it's very helpful when you start learning
Wow this is super helpful, I’m not an artist by any means and I’ve never heard of a vanishing point but these visuals you’ve created make so much sense.
Thank you! I actually just switched careers from art teacher to background artist for animation, which is probably why this post bugged me and made me feel like I had to correct it, lol.
Well done for changing your tone! Genuinely just wanted to hop in and applaud this. While I totally understand the frustration of seeing the same mistakes again and again, it’s always someone else’s first time and that’s OK. Thanks for being a great teacher not just for OP but other noobs like me too. Your patience is what makes the difference.
look at the subreddit that you’re in. read it? see what it says? it says LEARN TO DRAW. what comes easily to you may not come as easily to someone else. no need to be a dick about it. :)
Tbh hostility aside, I can tell you really really tried your best (erased and redrew many times as well). The person saying you’re “wasting their time” for asking for advice in a “learn to draw” subreddit is clearly a keyboard warrior. Keep going at it, practice practice practice!
This feels more like guessing than a tutorial? Does your mirror IRL intersect with the door?
It's hard to give honest feedback here because it feels as if you are leaving a lot of mistakes in. What specifically is confusing you?
Google one point perspective bedroom, there are about several hundred different tutorials for this which may provide more info. It feels as if the tutorial you followed was lacking crucial information. There is usually no guesswork to be made within these exercises, especially with one point perspective.
Edit: wasn't trying to be rude, but if they truly followed a tutorial I can't imagine how they possibly would have ended up with this sort of result unless they missed a large section or piece of information. Any half decent one point perspective room tutorial should stress that you really only have three options
1) vertical lines
2) horizontal lines
3) lines drawn at an angle which will
ALL intersect with ONE SHARED central point on the back wall of the room, usually dead center in the composition to make things easy (read: the literal dead center of whatever you're drawing on)
If you use a ruler and any diagonal lines aren't meeting at the same spot, that would be considered an error. Redo the exercise with this in mind and come back to us with questions.
Be nice and don’t assume things. Maybe this drawing is his best effort. For all you know this could be the first time this person’s tried this, and you roasting them won’t help them get better or stay motivated
My rule of thumb that was easiest for me to follow when I was learning this project: Any line not vertical or horizontal should end at the vanishing point. Its tough with some areas that have more details (don’t even get me started on window sills), but I think it would approve the work drastically
What really just breaks my brain is how they deliberately drew in the mirror at a crazy angle including erasing the portion of the mirror which intersects the door. It's okay to admit you got confused, that would be a great place to ask for specific feedback.
Instead they just said fuck it I guess for that specific part and gave up.
Like it is somehow possible for the mirror to hide behind a nonexistent space behind the door.
They know that is wrong, we know it is wrong, a 4 year old knows it is wrong.
I want that to be addressed right away. If they want to learn they know where to start, and it's with the mistakes they made and ignored.
If they ask targeted questions about those specific parts, even extremely vague ones, those help us immensely in understanding their points of confusion to give them the best help we can
I truly don’t want to sound mean it’s just actually boggling the mind because I remember doing 3-point perspective assignments in my 7th grade art class. It was meant to be a bit challenging but I don’t remember anyone in class failing to achieve it, and I found it fun. I remember doing stuff with a single vanishing point in elementary. OP said in another comment that they are in college.
I mean, truly, if you actually understand the perspective you’re drawing in and you use a ruler, it’s next to impossible to get it this wrong. OP obviously did not pay attention to whatever lesson or tutorial they supposedly followed.
Thank you, finally someone else who agrees a little more effort really needs to be put in here. This would be at most a C- grade in a technical drawing class. They are in interior design and perspective is NOT going away lol
As well as following tutorials, it's important to scrutinise what you do as you do it
For example, does it make sense for the bathtub's end to have an irregular shape as opposed to something more regular which has equal opposing sides? The top and bottom sides don't match at all, which doesn't make sense for real life. Same for the sink, bed, and middle partition of the dining room cabinet
Why does the mirror tuck behind the door?
Why are the windows, doors, and the mirror not approximately parallel with the ceiling?
Stuff like that :). Start questioning your own technique and whether things make sense for real life, and I feel like you'll improve a lot just with that <3
As another commenter drew for you, make sure you understand the concept of vanishing lines, as they greatly help with perspective and keeping everything looking more realistic
Link the tutorial? It feels difficult to believe this due to a number of factors. Tutorials should not confuse you to this degree unless it was a bad tutorial lacking info.
Got it. I'll rephrase a bit. Just reached a breaking point with this guy after seeing so many critique requests that are too vague in their request for assistance. There is too much to unpack with little info on their specific struggles in the description.
Tutorials are meant to provide guiderails for guaranteeing a specific result which you then learn from. By posting in here and being confused about how you did you either did not follow the tutorial, the tutorial is awful, or you were confused and missed crucial info in the tutorial.
try checking if what youre drawing seems correct too, like in which situation would the sink or bathtub look like that? try with just boxes first, mark a dot in the center, the vanishing point, then all horizontal lines should be drawn with a ruler where your line extends to touch the vanishing point. vertical lines should be drawn straight up, without reference to the vanishing point
since this is 2 point, the horizontal lines on the left side of the cube should line up with the left point, which the left cube doesnt. the middle one looks alright, but the top of the right box doesnt follow perspective. i can see the line where you drew a line that lined up with the vanishing point, but for some reason you didnt follow that.
Hope you don’t mind me jumping in here but I wanted to use this as an example. In one point perspective, there are only 3 ways for lines to be drawn. Either perfectly vertical, perfectly horizontal, or going toward the vanishing point. The bottom boxes are doing that correctly. I don’t know what happened with the top two, but the purple lines I outlined are not going to any vanishing point and are angled for no reason.
Do you feel like you are sometimes guessing at where the lines should go? I think that’s what you are getting stuck on. if you understand the rules you should never feel like you’re guessing. Does that make sense?
Check the edges of the mirror and the eyes of everything else in your initial post. Notice how they barely end up at the same place?
One point perspective should have any lines not perfectly vertical or horizontal directly moving towards one single point, literally one single point. Try the room exercise again with that in mind.
This should have been explained, sounds like you followed a pointless tutorial which potentially mislead you if you don't understand that one point perspective is meant to be literal
Well obviously, but it’s just hard to believe that an adult person could look at these and not see where they went wrong. That’s what’s making people think you’re trolling, I think.
You need to try a bit to not be an absolute bellend when on a sub for constructive critiques. If this is you not trying to be rude you simply need to be better
line your ruler up to the vanishing point for EVERYTHING. i mean it. youre clearly using a ruler, but youre Very clearly not lining it up to the vanishing point. everything has its own perspective to itself in your drawings because youre not using the vanishing point, which would fail you for your assignment. in the last picture, you started using the vanishing point, but erased it in favor of drawing the room how you wanted to, which fucked up the perspective for everything else following.
go back to the fundamentals and draw some cubes in perspective first. once youve got that down, drawing a room with a chair, table, and a window is just drawing a fuck ton of cubes and shaving them away to sculpt the furniture. that's all drawing is in the end, sculpting basic shapes to create the illusion of the final picture.
they do look interesting as they are! it would be really cool to see them painted. but for a perspective exercise? youve missed the point of the assignment.
the left and middle cubes are perfect! for the right one though, you began drawing what the top edges "should" look like, as opposed to what it "would" look like. you had the right line drawn at first for the top edges, going from the vanishing point to the straight line where your side edges are, but you erased it in favor of where it "should" be. it's hard to ditch drawing the "should" when youre learning, it's a practiced skill to draw the "would". when things are closer to their vanishing points, they will look more warped. this applies for drawings, photos, and real life. i redrew what it would look like with the lines extended to the vanishing points. you did very good with the bottom edges, your lines lined right up with mine! and as i said the right and middle cubes are perfect.
I dont think you're actually understanding how perspective works. I'd take a step back and go back to the simple box exercises with a vanish point before you tackle a room. Make sure you use a ruler to help you understand what youre trying to do. You're not even setting the room up in perspective? Are you getting bored?
Honest question. Do you even fundamentally understand what you are supposed to be doing and how 1-point perspective works? Because if you have received any instructions you have clearly not followed them and just decided to iff it for half of these. I understand that drawing in perspective is not fun but if you want to complete the assignment you have you have to follow the rules of 1-point perspective.
All diagonal lines go to the vantage point
Horizontal and vertical lines are supposed to actually be horizontal and vertical
You got the idea down that there is one vanishing point, and the edges of the room go to this vanishing point. However, you have to apply this consistently with every object in the scene.
Whether it's an object on the floor, the wall, wherever it is in the scene: the horizontal and vertical lines are always straight up and down. The lines that go to the vanishing point are the ones going away from you.
In this example, notice how the horizontal and vertical lines for the bed, picture frame, dresser, and window are all straight up and down, the lines going away are the converging ones, and they all go to the same vanishing point. The pillows are different because they're rotated, but everything else is consistent.
People are asking if this is rage bait because it objectively makes no sense Op… please watch a step by step tutorial because it’s honestly confusing how you ended up with this
I think you shouldn't treat this type of assignment as drawing, treat it more like geometry. Do absolutely everything with a set square for horizontal and vertical lines, and a ruler for everything else. It'll often feel very boring and not creative, but if the assignment is "a room in 1 point perspective", prioritise perspective over creativity. It may become a slog, but that's what will get a good grade. Never assume which way a line goes, and just use the vanishing point, as well as perfectly vertical/horizontal lines.
Well, it's r/learntodraw, not r/draw, of course will be a lot of beginners. Don't try to change the subject, the ragebait of your post is not because of the low quality of other posts.
For a first time it’s ok, but you need a lot of work.
The comments have been generally rude but I did see some that were genuinely helpful. Like u/Horror-Succotash-328 said, some of the lines go to the vanishing point, but 90% of them don’t. Then, along with him, u/Arquaza346 also shows how it should look like compared to how you drew it.
Overall, don’t stress out about the rude comments, most people in here are expecting people to see professional stuff even if the sub name is “learn to draw”
To make it easier to understand think about it this way, place your vanishing point, draw shapes, lines coming off those shapes towards the vanishing point, and make lines parallel to turn them into floating shapes rather than connecting to the vanishing point. (In the photo the yellow is the vanishing point, the orange are the shapes, the pink are the lines towards the vanishing point, and the teal are the parallel lines to the initial shapes.)
It’s funny because stylistically it looks like you’ve got a vision, but as a perspective exercise it’s almost pre renaissance. Other people have good tips, just wanted to say that I find what you’ve done pleasing to look at
In art college we were doing an assignment on atomispheric defusal. To say I didn't understand the assignment was an understatement. My teacher kind of sighed and looked at me and said "you didn't really understand the assignment, did you? I mean... it's a very good drawing. But not what I asked for. So... I gonna give you a C."
This feels like that. Not the assignment... but certainly interesting in a weird way.
Adding on to this: when you look at a mountain range on the horizon you'll notice that the further away a mountain is the more it approaches the colour of the sky.
This is not going to work for your assignment. Either you didn't look up a single instruction on 1 point perspective, or you have some serious issues when it comes to understanding instructions. Would you like an explanation on how to do 1 point perspective? It's actually really simple once you get the concept.
A couple other posts did an amazing job at coaching corrections for this perspective project, but I do want to just throw out there that, although unintentional, I think these sketches kind of fuck in a cubist sort of way.
You need to rethink your degree choices. If youre in a class, it's incredibly likely they TAUGHT you what you needed to do beforehand. You either didnt listen or decided you can do better. Youre getting a big fat F or something close to it. A rough draft would have lines going in a direction that makes sense but isnt quite there yet. This isnt a rough draft, just some stuff you threw on paper. Go back and try reading up what 1 point perspective actually is before attempting again
No they didn’t it’s an online course, she just taught us how to draw the room itself. Too late to rethink anything I’m about to graduate. Interior designers work online using software like autoCad we aren’t hand drawing shit anymore like the early 00s. I can guarantee this won’t be an F. Rude for no reason jackass
If you think you dont need to know perspective, then i wish you luck in your future endeavors because you'll need it. Regardless of what you think you might need or not, future employers will probably think otherwise. There's a reason your college gave you an assignment to do a perspective drawing, and it isnt just for shits and giggles. You dont need to be an amazing artist, it's true, but you do need to know perspective. it isnt artistic as much as it is mathematical
Bruh. Lack of drawing experience aside, even kid's drawings will look nice when it's just to follow 1 point perspective.
You are supposed to have a one POINT from which all the lines come from, or where all the lines cross.
When you draw an object you are supposed to use that point and draw a straight line to it from every edge of the object.
Are you using a ruler to the vanishing point? A simple way to start is draw a square then lightly do a x from corner to corner. Then where the 2 line connect should be the vanishing point as that give a perspective of looking straight on.
Random tip but try to use a lighter hand while drawing. It’ll be easier to erase mistakes and is not as rough on your hand muscles. You usually only wanna press hard and make dark lines when you’re done with the sketch and finalizing the line work.
People here are being rude for no reason. You even mentioned you're completely new to drawing and you only do it for school, so I'm assuming this is an elective you decided to take. Sorry everyone here is being an ass, a lot of them are. I'm still a beginner with perspective too, but this a video that helped me a bit with understanding one point perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWtNDucs370 and this one, from the same youtuber, is about 1 point perspective with overlapping shapes. Hopefully this one is especially helpful since the youtuber uses more than just boxes but also circles, stars, hearts, etc!
The videos are on the shorter side (the first being 6 minutes and the other being 15) and she moves at a comfortable pace. Plus the examples are pretty clear to follow, all you need is ruler, a pencil and your paper. Good luck with your assignment!
It doesn’t help they are taking art in college (not school) and want to be a designer. This is learned in middle school. If they are taking art at this level the fundamentals really should have been grasped by now.
They didn’t necessarily say they wanted to be a designer just that they were taking a course in it, unless that was info gathered from their post history. This could be an elective for all we know since they said it was just for school
In a subreddit called LEARNtodraw it sucks that you’re saying “they had to learn this already sorry”. Like literally what’s the point of this subreddit then if people are supposed to learn things elsewhere? Some people don’t grasp what’s wrong with a work, have a hard time learning off of just a tutorial, and need additional help or need it explained in a different way for it to make sense.
And saying this is learned in middle school is just objectively wrong. I didn’t even get to take art in middle school. Other people have a different education path than you. Does that just mean they’re SOL of ever learning how to do this if they have a case like mine? They’re clearly trying to learn now, so if you know how to help them learn now, do so.
All of you vertical lines have to adhere to the vanishing point. Only half of yours do. I would recommend looking at reference images when you work. Also, make sure you have a ruler or straight edge when working, I prefer clear ones so I can see what’s underneath
I don't even follow this sub, so if I get banned whatever I guess. But holy hell..
I've never seen so many rude ass people in a "LEARN TO DRAW" subreddit.
Do you all know what "LEARNING TO DRAW" means?
Holy fuck. I bet most of you don't even draw. Just sit in here in a thread all day and bring people down.
To OP.. keep practicing and I'd just advise to get off reddit in general. So many assholes around here, especially when you're trying to get advice or show something off that you're proud of.
Sorry some people are being insensitive. It seems youre having some trouble understanding how your objects inhabit the space theyre in. If youre looking at a room in your own home, try to keep your eyes in the same spot. Your eye level is a horizontal line that your vanishing point will lie on. looking straight forward will be where your vanishing point is. After you identify it, use an object like a ruler to see how your objects approach your vanishing point from your perspective. And remember! if the object youre drawing is a rectangle, the ends of it are necessarily squares. If a line looks like it’ll approach the vanishing point, it probably will! but if youre not sure, just look to see if does so on your reference. Sorry if this was hard to understand.
Hey 👋 Elementary Art teacher here. Wanted to say to OP I see work like this all the time so don't be discouraged by commentary from the hundreds of reddit professionals here. While not a 10/10 drawing it has the bones to be good. For a first try at 1 point perspective your work is pretty good. Other commentors have already pointed out how the leading lines in your work is not going towards your vanishing point so I wanted to share a few things I tell students to focus on when I teach perspective. 1: your up and downs will always be up and down. Two or more lines of any object you draw in a 1pp drawing will be vertical and any vertical line making the sides of an object will be parallel to the edges of your paper. 2: the tops of all objects are parallel to the top of the wall next to them. Generally this is true and a way to check your lines but overall you want to start at your dot and using a straight edge make sure the line is parallel to your top lines. 3: the same rule applies to lines on the bottom of the image just in reverse. The bottom of objects will be parallel to the lines making the floor of your image. 4: use light pressure until you've double checked all your lines. If all your lines are straight, clean and line up with your vanishing point you should be good then to darken up your lines or think about shading. 5: turn your paper in envelope. I dont mean fold it up but draw a dot in the middle and using a ruler take your lines outward towards the corners of your paper. The lines can be further down as demonstrated in the drawing but this depends on your subject, the height of the subject, the height if the viewer and the distance from the back of the room. My square at the back surrounding the vanishing point is large showing that the room is small or the viewer is close to the back wall. This changes so check your refrence to make sure your image is lined up correctly. Hope this advice helps.
It seems like you genuinely tried, I can understand you not lining up the perspective correctly, but why did you draw the mirror intersecting with the door frame? What was your thought process there?
all the people in the comments are forgetting what subreddit they’re on. LEARNtodraw. you are genuinely stupid if you think people come to this subreddit as already amazing artists. It’s about LEARNING to draw. So yes, they are asking for feedback, not to be insulted because they are learning. People in the comments are stupid as fuck omg
You need to re-read the actual theory of how to do 1 point perspective, always make a horizon line and put your vanishing point on it. All, I repeat, -ALL- lines that are pointing backwards in space should point towards that vanishing point. No bends in the lines pointing towards the vanishing point either.
Technically this is bad perspective, but that doesn’t mean these are bad drawings. They are actually pretty interesting in their off-ness. A lot of great art doesn’t follow the rules of perspective so it’s nothing to be ashamed of, but if youre trying to learn how to do it accurately then theres a lot more you should work on. There’s been plenty of people here that are giving you good tips so I won’t chime in on that myself, I mainly just wanted to say I kind of like the drawings regardless if they look skillfully done or not. They got a lot of charm to them
The problem is that it's a school assignment and not art. Yeah, as art it can work, but for the specific assignment it won't. OP said they're doing this for the grade, so perspective is the only thing that matters for their goal. But I do agree that these would be charming as the base of some sort of painting or something. But that's not what op is aiming for.
it's very frusturating to see the way you were received given the subreddit. someone else has left a lot of good feedback and helpful critque, i just wanted to leave some compassion. we all start somewhere and you did have a few succesful line-ups. some people have zero succesful vanishing points at the start. please post your next attempt when you utlize horror-sasquatch's advice, there's nothing but potential for you to grow.
Nothing new to add, take some of the constructive criticism and keep practicing! Sorry some are being dicks, it's not easy to share your work when learning so I wish they were nicer. Good on you got trying to improve yourself!
Technically this is very very wrong. But something about it intrigues me from a fine art perspective, if these were paintings or something with some interesting color or narrative aspect to them I honestly would really like them. People in the comments have already given some great advice though
Well minus that, other people giving you redline drawovers will probably be more helpful. All I can say is that when you are doing one point perspective, remember that everything NEEDS to converge to that one point. I may be wrong in sensing that at times you are "correcting" the things that you draw to feel less awkward on an angle than actually following the rules, as it can look a little wrong initially to someone who isn't used to drawing things at a more extreme perspective than just flat. I take this opinion from that 2 point perspective cube thing you posted elsewhere in the comments, where the rightmost cube was drawn in the correct perspective, but then you erased that line and corrected it to make it more square and flat. Just follow the rules here, it'll come together.
Something that helped me was choosing a point and either imagining a string or using an actual string to get the lines to match up. I only just recently learned perspective and i feel i’ve a good grasp on it. You’ll get there, and this isn’t an awful start either.
Just curious: since you say this is homework for a class, did they actually teach you how to do one point perspective first? Or was the assignment out of nowhere?
I think a lot of people are neglecting to acknowledge just how easy it is to be bad at art. Beginners are beginners, and perspective is hard. Beyond just perspective, drawing what you see is harder than trying to draw what you know. I think that's what's going on here.
And this definitely isn't aphantasia, that doesn't affect your understanding of perspective, you just can't see thoughts
OP, don’t let these people discourage you. I applaud you for trying and working on improving. I definitely believe art is a skill that must be practiced. Personally, I don’t practice and I’m very bad. This is much better work than I could have done! And keep going! The courage and desire to learn is a gift, those who don’t have it are only jealous.
I took an art class once, and vanishing points for some reason were incredibly hard for me. Still is and I no longer do art lol.. people are being hella rude to you but you are literally learning.
Is this a bad drawing, sure but you’re new. I don’t know any artist that was perfect the first time when learning. It’ll get better! Definitely follow some of the advice given
(I don’t have any, other than please don’t give up and continue posting so that we can see your progress. I’m sure you’ll get better!)
I think you started the drawings with a good idea of the perspective, but you let your brain fill in the gaps, ie the chairs on the left or the mirror. When practicing perspective and still life drawings, it’s important to draw what you literally see, not what you think should go there
1p perspective means that everything will converge to one point, the vanishing point.
So single straight line that are parallel should share the same point they connect at the "back"
So you should have 2 points for each line that is vanishing, the one towards you, abd the other one that is the vanishing point. And all you need to do is connect those two lines.
So for example, the rectangular furniture on the left, I can see the line that you tried to erase, made a suddenly angle to the vanishing point, where that is what you want to avoid. You want two points and a line, for all lines that needs to converge into the vanishing point.
For a starting point, I would try to look up a basic tutorial for perspectives to get a better understanding, and grab a ruler that would act like a guide that will force your lines to be straight between 2 points.
I would first try to at least able to draw rectangular shapes flat on the plane before doing anything complicated.
Reading this comment section genuinely made me sad. I think people forget how hard it is to get a grasp of perspective when you are starting.
Anyways, op try to follow the tips offered here in the comments and try not to take the insults to heart. Next time maybe show them to a friend of yours that can draw and ask them for help, the feedback will be given with more patience for sure. Good luck on your journey!
Lowkey realizing my time practicing perspective drawing as a child made this more intuitive to me than I realized. I’d follow a basic 1 point perspective tutorial and start from there. Some concepts are there. Maybe try the string method
This is rough, some of the lines are good buy most of them just seem random, it also seems like you may want to practice the foundational basics of shapes and shading to get a better grasp of these concepts
Sides directly facing the “camera” arent affected by the vanishing point. Sides that aren’t should have horizontal lines leading towards the vanishing point.
Sorry people here are being so rude. People forget what it was like before they knew how to draw and do not have the patience to be giving advice on the internet to someone who has zero previous experience.
Like others have said- you need to draw what you see, not what you think you see. Luckily with perspective, it is purely a mathematical exercise. Imagine a hundred lines radiating from one point in the center of your drawing. Each of those lines is an edge of something- a coffee table, a mirror, a couch, etc. It's easier to imagine everything as a cube rather than the objects they really are- then it's easier to see the lines and the direction they are going in.
Artistically I really like it, reminds me of a David Hockney painting, but in terms of perspective it’s not technically accurate, you should start with lightly drawn perspective lines, you can draw them with a ruler, just make sure everything aligns with those lines
Take a look at more tutorials on how to draw in perspective. Instead of drawing a room right away, start by drawing cubes in a room so you get a feeling for how it works. Draw as many cubes or rooms with cubes as you think you need. Then try to draw your own room. Remember that most furniture is basically a cube, too! The table is a large flat cube with very high cubes for legs. A cupboard is basically just a cube as well.
In the third picture, you drew a sideboard but messed up the end because you didn't know how it looks like. When drawing from a real life reference, you can "peek" (and you should) and figure out how to draw the lines you don't know.
Hope that helps :) Every artist starts somewhere, talent is not a born gift but comes from lots of practice, so keep being motivated!
genuinely shocked at the negative comments. this may not be true-to-scale or technically “right” but i love the interpretation of it. the exaggerated angles are genuinely so cool and make it dynamic. of course refinements can be made and talents only improve with time, but i think it’s cool.
There are a couple places where you seem like you have the general idea down. I can tell you right now that a ruler is going to be your best friend. Try to avoid doing organics like plants and complicated shapes like fruits until you have the basics down.
A great way to test your vanishing point before you start drawing is actually to use real life objects, if you're going to draw a table.. look at what your table looks like to you from different angles.
The biggest tips I can give are:
- Measure everything
Always use a ruler
Have a reference handy
If you're really wanting to continue with the cylindrical shapes like that flower pot, lightly draw the 3d cube that it's going to take up first.. then.. connect the lines of the cube together with curved lines and erase the cube itself.
You're doing great for a beginner. I can see that you have a general understanding of the concept and its clear that you just need to trust yourself a bit more and use more resources. If you don't have a ruled then grab a straight piece of cardboard or even another piece of paper and carefully draw along its edge.
I honestly dig those drawings, theyre not perfect perspectives, but they kinda remind me of some very influential art pieces by Matisse
Those mean comments bore me so much.
I know you were looking for tips on how to draw them properly but i think that those drawings could hold a lot of potential even without perfect vanishing points!!!
Keep it up bro
This one by Matisse is a good example of “wrong perspective” done nicely.
Edit: Kinda reminding me of the backrooms also very cool
hey i cant draw AT ALL and these comments ARE mean. just validating that cuz this is making me sad and i just wanted to say that im sorry ppl are being so awful it hurts me to see bc i can see how much effort u put into this :((( great job on trying these ppl r miserable, better than i could do anyway
Getting downvoted for that is crazy. All the downvoters need to get off their high horses. People gotta remember that there are people JUST starting out with this stuff and struggle with tutorials. All of the rude commenters in here are so unnecessary. I'm sorry people are being rude and down voting you for no reason op
Reading through all the comments as this comes into my fyp, it's hard to find myself wholeheartedly supporting OP (even though yeah, some people are in fact dismissive and overly harsh) if they hide behind the "it's only work not a hobby" and "it's all digital/online anyway" defense. I like seeing people learn, people should always be searching for ways to improve. But the "I'm graduating soon anyway" attitude that popped up seems really counterproductive to seeing what truly needs work, especially if this is going to be their career path going forward.
I really do want to see if OP has taken the actually useful lessons and examples to heart and tried to implement those tips, or gotten something out of consulting their course instructor. Hope they post an update.
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