Lesson 1 | An introduction to the basics of the one vanishing point perspective

Hello and happy sketching.

We are in rule seven, the vanishing points perspective.

And I start with the one vanishing point perspective. So actually we start always with the horizon. The horizon is a straight line that goes from left to right and is always on our eye level. This is important, I name it H for the horizon. On the horizon, we have one vanishing point. Meaning this means that we stand directly in front of the vanishing point. Maybe this is the same situation if you stand in a corridor. Imagine you would be in a corridor, the end of the corridor, this is the ceiling, this is the ground of the corridor. The important thing is in the one vanishing point perspective, the ceiling and the floor, they are in the right angle to all the vertical lines. Okay, what I now have, sketched is the end of the corridor. And now the question is where are the lines where the floor touches the wall? They go directly from the vanishing point through the edge of the back of the wall of the back to this. And here, starting from here, going through the edge of the wall, that is at the end of the corridor to this side. And again, the force line is here. No, that’s not precise. So starting from here, going over the edge to here. So this is the situation. So that you better understand, this is the floor. All this you can imagine a little bit better here, the same. This is the wall and the ceiling similar to the floor is this part of it. And now you can imagine, this is actually all for the one vanishing point perspective.

Happy sketching.

Here is a special situation. I already drew the rectangle of the wall that is on the back. The same situation. I’m in a corridor. The question is where do I put now the horizon?

And what has it to do with my position as the perceiver of this perspective? So what do we talk about? What I told you is that eye level is the horizon. So when you are small, your horizon would be here. If you are taller, your horizon would be somewhat here.

And now the special situation is that if you stand to the left of the corridor, then your vanishing point is on the left. If you stand on the right of the corridor, your eye level is on the right. So when I want to draw the perspective of a small person or even a mouse that sits on the left core, on the left side and looks among the corridor, I can draw it like this. I decide. Since it’s a mouse, the eye level is extremely low.
Anti horizon is always horizontal is here. So this is the horizon. Now, what does it mean for all the lines? What does the perspective for a mouse look like?

It’s the same concept. Here is the vanishing point here. And it goes over the edge to the corner. The same is here. Over the edge to the corner.

Over the edge, to the corner… more precise. And over the edge from the vanishing point over the edge here. Here., from the vanishing point over the edge to the corner. Now it’s a little bit more difficult to understand. So now we have a situation where this is the floor. This post drawing is the floor. This is what the perspective looks like for a mouse.

Similar exercise. Again, a corridor. This is the end of the wall of the corridor. And I want to draw a situation for the giraffe. And how does it look if a giraffe is standing in this corridor? Okay, Giraffe is tall, say this knee lines somewhere here is the horizon of the Giraffe. And deciding if the Giraffe is standing on the left or on the right, I would say it’s standing somewhere here. So the vanishing point is here. And now you already know the concept from the vanishing point over the corner, because all lines flee from the vanishing point away and to this side. Same here and again here over the vanishing point. And yet it goes here.

Okay, now you are used to this perspective. You see that the floor now is very small here. This is the situation of the view of a giraffe that stands in the corridor on the right side.