Project - Build a 1-Point Room - Level 1

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Project - Build a 1-Point Room - Level 1

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Deadline: Submit your assignment by 12/04/2023 for a chance to be featured in the next critique video!

For this project, you're gonna draw a room using 1-point perspective. Here's what you need to do:

Pick a Room: Draw a made-up room or use one in your house as inspiration. Make sure to pick something that you're excited to draw - restaurant, library, warehouse, server room, classroom, office with cubicles, vintage record store with a bunch of tables and boxes, laundromat, subway station, toy store, computer lab. Get creative, have fun!
Stick to 1-Point Perspective: This is all about getting the hang of 1-point perspective. It works great for rooms with straight-on views, like a kitchen with cabinets that line up with the walls.
Don't Copy a Photo: Try not to use photos as a reference except to google search what a room looks like and what things would go in the room. We want to start “building” a world out of nothing. We want to make mistakes and work through them.
Room = Box: Imagine the room as a big box. But instead of drawing the outside like you might have done before, now you're drawing the inside.
X-Ray Vision: Pretend you've got x-ray vision to help figure out the back edges and corners of the room and objects. This helps set up the perspective right. Keep those back lines lighter.
Horizon line: Remember the horizon line is the viewer’s eye level. So if you want it to seem like the viewer is standing in the room, make sure to put that vanishing point about level with where a typical person's eye line would be. If you want it to look like a dog's point of view you can put the vanishing point really low on the page.
Impractical Sink: To make me feel better about my impractical sink, you are required to make the same mistake in your drawing. Thank you.

Once you're done with the first room, try more! Remember, this is all about getting better at 1-point perspective and imagining spaces in 3D. Have fun with it and experiment with different room styles and layouts.

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@al_ic_ja
Thien Minh Pham
I thought drawing straight line as long I connect the dot it would be easy. Turn out my hand still too shaky even after the warm up ensure that I draw proper straight line. anything I need to consider next time? any feedback help thanks a lot!
Melanie Scearce
It's difficult! You did a great job with the horizon line, but the lines of the wall tilt a bit to the left, giving the whole room small lean. Try to keep the horizontal lines as parallel to the horizon line as possible.
Luke
1mo
I started putting a sketch book in my kitchen so I can do some perspective practice while waiting on food. One issues I was finding a fall into frequently was that my drawings always placed the opposing wall as much wider than it actually was. The mistake was making everything affixed to the wall appear much too wide/short. I am trying to put much more thought into the placement of that back wall at the beginning of the drawing.
Amu Noor
1mo
Lvl 1 project. Any feedback is welcome!
I did not Want to see that
This is the first level pre demo, I will be doing the level 2 as well, along with both of the post demo versions I will make. I am familiar with one point, two point and three point perspective, but the most I have done with these was drawing boxes. I did draw a street corner in two perspective once, but that was quite a while ago. Not sure if there is something strange going on with this one, so if there is or anything I can improve on let me know! The scene is supposed to potray a road going into a tunnel, with some bushes growing all around the scene, and I just added a whole in the wall cause I wanted to I guess.
@lieseldraws
This looks awesome!!
Melanie Scearce
Looks awesome! The only thing I would say is that the horizon line should be consistent with the vanishing point, so the water/land beyond the road should be on the same line.
Dipede Doodle
Wow this looks amazing - well done! Unfortunally I didnt do this excercise and I am not good in perspective so dont take my word seriously. But the rail on the right side feels a bit off - again maybe it needs to look like this. Anyhow great workl love the tunel and the shadow.
@artameki
1mo
Martha Muniz
Your perspective looks pretty accurate! Just watch out especially as you get closer to the horizon line, it's a common error to make the angles larger than they really are, since they become rather slim in reality. Also, when adding circular objects in perspective, they still follow perspective, and using a square in perspective as a guideline is the best way to get them accurately plotted (this will be covered more in-depth later in this section, so no worries!) Hope this helps :)
Vili
1mo
Hi there are improvments for sure, but still difficult to draw perfect vertical/horizontal lines and of course straight lines 😭 Because my goal is digital drawings, i started with procreate since the beginning, should i use stabilization tool for the sketch brush ? Or maybe some advice about procreate pls 🙏 Still have fun for now haha
Melanie Scearce
Using procreate/digital drawing programs for perspective drawings is useful because you can use the program to make perfect straight lines. In procreate, draw a line and don't remove the pencil from the screen - after a second or so, the line will become straight and you can move the end point to whatever position you desire. I absolutely recommend practicing traditionally and continuing to train your pencil control in tandem!!
@writedrawface
I got a little messy with mine because I wanted to create something spooky but overall it was an exercise I enjoyed!
Rachel Dawn Owens
Looks like you had fun. Watch out for the shadow over your drawing when you photograph it. Posting a clean photo will help us see what you made. I like spooky stuff. Glad you enjoyed it. Keep it up!
Jack H
2mo
I'd actually done such an exercise drawing 1pp boxes before, but I've never actually drew a scene like I've done here. It was pretty fun, though it did get quite messy with all the lines joining back to the vanishing point. The paper I used was also larger, which made it harder to draw a proper horizontal and vertical straight line.
@somni3005
2mo
Really enjoyed this project. Had trouble mostly on lining up all the objects into place. Also, had an issue where I would intuitively place a box and assume its angles. Overall great! :)
Christina Unger
That was surprisingly challenging. (And damn, forgot the sink!)
@josephl
2mo
Did this digital but didn't want to use any built in tools so I free handed the perspective, need to get better at drawing straight lines on my pen tablet because they always come out skewed.
Harry Vederchi
that's a nice start. keep going. Draw with your whole arm if you want to have straight lines.
Sapphire Bandit
Finished this drawing a couple of days ago, and I'm happy with how it turned out. Any comments or critiques are appreciated.
@lauralana
3mo
I don’t ever draw from memory but I enjoyed the process. Man I really wanted to use a ruler but I resisted! This took me a lot longer than I expected. Will try again and again as it was the first go.
@solobo
3mo
My kitchen from memory, things got a little funky with the upper right cabinets
JJ Anyabolu
Wow, Its actually a nice perspective drawing, Especially since you drew it from memory
Aura
3mo
One point perspective study room, featuring a very functional sink over the record player console. I’m available for all your interior decorating needs.
Art Stark
16d
Made me smile. Thanks. :P
@ber
3mo
Zander Schmer-Lalama
Hey! So this saw a pretty fun project! I did my room form my imagination with my dresser, TV, Record shelf, desk, and carpet. I even added the sink like in the lesson! It was a bit tricky for me to make my lines straight for the boxes and for the line to head to the vanishing point. Any tips would be greatly appreciate! Thank you!
@faegbc
3mo
It was a little painful how this project revealed just how little my line quality has improved, but it is what it is. This one is a bit simplistic maybe, I want to try a few more after watching the demo/critique.
@sweethouse
Drew my kitchen from imagination. Looks a lot bigger than reality, wishful thinking!
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