Perspectives

Hello happy Vanishing Point,

Before drawing a perspective view, we always have to ask ourselves what kind of perspective we are dealing with. Is it a perspective with one vanishing point, or is it a perspective with two vanishing points?
The difference is easy to explain. If you stand in a corridor and look directly at the end of the corridor, it is a single vanishing point perspective. And it is the same with a box, or a house that is standing in front of us: if we see only one façade or side, and not two, then it is a single vanishing point perspective.

If something is at an angle, like the box here, then we need a two-vanishing point perspective… but that will come later.

In fact, perspective is a very simple system. And yet you get the feeling that perspective is something very difficult. That’s why we’re going through it step by step.

What we must always be aware of is that we always think that what is horizontal is also horizontal in the picture, in our sketch. But this is far from the case. Windowsills, for example, are always horizontal. In the picture, however, it is very quickly very, very crooked.
Let’s have a look … this is the entrance area of the University of Applied Sciences Grisons in Chur. ….

So what do we learn? Never trust a direction in the perspective view.

But if you understand the system, it is much easier. So I will explain the system in the following.