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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@bovine_designs
I wanted to do a room that wasn't straight on, I used one of Steve's examples. I definitely did a lot more than just boxes but I was having fun 😁
Melanie Scearce
I’ve seen an apartment that actually had a washing machine like this 😂 fun composition, nicely done!
Stephen Worthington
Tried to draw my kitchen from memory (with some slight modifications - I do have an oven! And I invented a low sitting kitchen island to try and make it more interesting) I see a couple of problems, I think the lack of depth on the back row isn't just because of foreshortening, I think I just didn't draw them big enough. I think because I started with the taller cabinet I sort of drew myself into a corner and couldn't amend them. I guess my main takeaway is that I don't know how to do depth accurately yet, hopefully the 20% of the maths will get me there! Either way, fun exercise and I think I added enough to keep it challenging. Any critique/feedback gratefully received :)
Melanie Scearce
I think the size of the cabinets looks fine, the area that throws me off a bit is where the cabinets meet the fridge. It could definitely look like that irl but I think adding a small section there could help the viewer understand the shape of the room a bit more. Overall your design looks good and you have great line quality here 👍
@dukal
5d
it’s been a will since I have done perspective. My lines are so wobbly. I will need to do more warms up
@sosoph
5d
Hi :). This was my first attempt at drawing with perspective. I found working without a ruler challenging. I also found it tricky to figure out the size of objects and how to foreshorten them properly. Next time, I think it would help to sketch out a little room layout first before diving into the perspective drawing. Right now, the layout of my drawing feels kind of random haha.
Gloria Wickman
Here's my level one version of a room. It felt like the distortion started to get pretty severe toward the edge of the page when making the bed. Where I wanted to draw the lines mentally was quite a bit different from keeping the length and width parallel and only having the depth lines converge. I had a lot of fun with this assignment and it stretched my brain in a new way.
Melanie Scearce
Glad to hear that it challenged you! Well done 👍
Arthur Nesbitt
I had a lot of free time at work this week so I finally got around to doing this assignment. However that means I was working with whatever paper I could find lol. I actually enjoyed this tho. I definitely should have put more stuff in the 2nd picture but all in all I think it was a productive session
Melanie Scearce
I really like these. The woodshop scene is really cool, and it's impressive you put the poster in perspective. I did notice that the cabinet is clipping the wall a bit in the first image, so just be mindful of that. Overall, great job!
hobodios
17d
Anyone else having ideas that are way too complicated to replicate and it just ends up looking worse than in your head xd? Maybe because I need to use more than one point but I don't know how yet. Any feedback would be appreciated!
Rachel Dawn Owens
You could totally make a 1 point perspective drawing with this composition. If you’re putting the fish in the middle, I would push the perspective on the cat more. Gives it more dimension and space. Keep up the fun ideas
Patrick Alexander Büchi
What a struggle! I gotta practice this one a lot, not only am I struggling with the straight-ness/messiness of the lines, but I also dont know how to create a room out of my mind at all!
Aubrey Hannah
Decided to draw a computer lab for my 1-point perspective room. I tried to use line weight for extra detail on some things like the windows and ceiling.
@621
19d
Rachel Dawn Owens
Very nice
Tommy Pinedo
Nice I like this :D
hobodios
20d
I really need to practice straight lines more. Also I tried to make the bed sheet lines shaky so it looks like one but ig that didn't work as intended. I have a question if a painting has perspective in it with a different vanishing point how would that work I tried to do that in my drawing and I'm confused.
Mason Stroud
Designing the room was a lot of fun! Spent about an hour on this one. I'm going to try more rooms from one of the other angles Stan demonstrated. Definitely going to pay more attention to the convergence, as well as making sure my horizontals and verticals are solid, on the next one.
@flixkopf
25d
The Californication-colors living room, a graveyard scene and a page of small studies
Rachel Dawn Owens
These are super cool. The compositions on the last page are my favorite. The vanishing point is a little off on the other 2 I think.
Kyle
28d
This was fun but I think my bedroom is lame 😂
@silver847
28d
I think I did okay
Melanie Scearce
Yes, you nailed it! Great job. Just be careful that your objects don't clip the wall -- if you draw a line vertically up from any point on the line that indicates your wall, that's where the object would sit flush against the wall. You could end that bookcase/dresser at that line, move it over until it's clearing the wall, or you could move it up where it is and adjust your lines to make it a shelf.
Tommy Pinedo
I think you did great :)
pinkfin
1mo
really hard to draw straight lines!
Aaron Page
1mo
This is really cool! Something about it. simplistic yet I wanna be there
Melanie Scearce
Excellent work! I love the flower detail.
Maestro
1mo
Here is my attempt
@androida
1mo
One point perspective room with an impractical sink (or very practical if there are any dirty books) and a cubic ... cat? I noticed that the perspective lines easily come darker and darker while going back and forth. Perhaps the book case and couch took too much of the room - could've fitted in more things but I stopped here to not clutter everything up too much. :)
Rachel Dawn Owens
shat you got so far is looking good. The boxy flower in the window is my favorite part.
Rynhardt van Vuuren
This was a lot of fun and hoping I got the idea of it!!! Please tell me if I might have gotten it wrong. Any suggestions are welcome. I never understood the vanishing point up till now!!! Pretty cool!
Tommy Pinedo
Beautiful :D
Patrick Bosworth
Nice job! Looks like you're getting the hang of it, and this is a cool room design! Looks like the interior of a fallen castle. The lines on the left side of your room are starting to veer off, and don't converge at the vanishing point. You can see when you extend the floor board lines out they lose their target. Also try to avoid tangents with your perspective lines. The lines on top of table are running directly into the lines of the floor boards which kills the depth of the scene and makes the table visually become part of the floor. Adding a few extra lines to the table, following the same perspective lines, will help separate them from the perspective lines in the floorboards. Something to be aware of moving forward! Keep up the good work!
Axel Gyllenstierna
This was harder than I thought it would be! I think I made it harder for myself by trying to have a wide perspective. I will do some new ones from a more "zoomed in" perspective and add them as replies to my original post. Added small and oddly shaped toy pianos to practice the level 2 assignment. I tried to do my kitchen from memory. To compare, I took a picture from my imagined seating (after I finished drawing). Any feedback appreciated! Also, yay or nay for bookshelves over the TV?
Axel Gyllenstierna
Today's longer project. Wanted to challenge myself so I tried to draw a cinema from the aisle. Not sure if I'd pay to see that movie.
Axel Gyllenstierna
Warmup today, was certainly easier to keep it small. Fun assignment but I feel that I am really struggling with line quality. Any suggestions to keep it cleaner/more crisp?
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