Project - Build a 1-Point Room - Level 1
Project - Build a 1-Point Room - Level 1
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ASSIGNMENTS

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.

Marco Sordi
2026/7/9. Good afternoon everybody. Here's my assignment for this section. I sketched the basic shapes of the objects freehand, but refined them using a ruler. This also allowed me to evaluate how accurately I could construct a believable 3D environment relying only on observation and hand drawing. With the exception of the piano stool, which turned out to be slightly misaligned, I was pleasantly surprised to find that everything else was remarkably close to geometrical accuracy. In the final stage, however, I felt that the composition lacked visual interest in the center, so I added a chair, which I constructed from the beginning using a ruler and set square. Finally, I applied a layer of color simply to enhance the overall sense of depth and three-dimensionality. Thanks for any comment or critique.
Kim Solon
Drew a simple kitchen, it took me a while because I got confuse how to make it 3D after drawing the 2D square, but i think I slowly got it
Ilan Jones
Damn hard to keep the lines straight. More practice is neccessary.
Vic Guzman
Lookin good tho
@peter_g
6d
I literally wanted to cry about this assignment it took me way too many tries to actually start getting it and I was not very keen on the technical part of design a room. I hope you can guess which is my final version. I also have to mention that I try using a pen to see if I can get more loose due to the fact that i can not erase but it did not work.
Anirudh
10d
1st attempt, was trying to draw gesture in 2nd pic. but something else came out of it XD
Tofu
12d
So much harder than it looks. I understood the demo and everything made sense, until i tried doing it myself. I tried doing the big giant box room first in red, and then realised i was even struggling to have the lines align and match into a rectangle. Then i started getting confused when i should be doing a horizontal line or link it back to the vanishing point for certain objects (i.e. the top side of the books in the shelf against the wall). At the same time i also started getting frustrated on drawing straight lines and also trying to do it intuitively. There was so much erasing and redoing in attempt 1 that i didn't find myself enjoying it at all. The items are definitely not proportional to each other now that i look at it as a whole, and the bed still looks off to me. I was so tempted to just call it and leave it at one attempt. Thankfully attempt 2 was slightly easier but now it's been over 4 hours total and my head is spinning. We're only just on cubes, and i'm already demoralised especially considering i'm not doing complex shapes.
@mmesser
14d
I drew my grandma's kitchen from memory.
Atomosophere
if anyone has advice on how to darken lines without losing the initial line quality, I'd love to hear. This project was surprisingly fun!
Nat
21d
Soo, life’s been a mess recently so even if I was drawing a little bit, I took a huge break from a course (woo hoo being an adult, I guess). I liked this assignment, I think it is my favorite kind of struggle, I am definitely not good at perspective but it’s growing on me more and more. sadly the pages have been through a trip throughout my entire country so they are in a little bit of a rough shape but we forgive em, don’t we? D:
Chuck Ludwig Reina
I quite like these! there is a character to your art I find really satisfying.
@bluemight
22d
Made two slightly different versions of a part of my living room, an then a sort of subway station like Stan did in the demo. I did the subway free hand at first, just ended up redoing cleaner lines with a one-point perspective grid tool (and now looking at it I think I miss a horizontal line on top of the front of the train, oops).
Darren
26d
Zach McCoy
1mo
I had an idea for a scene for this, but ended up keeping it pretty simple and close to my actual kitchen. As an engineer Perspective is something I really enjoy, just execution, especially for more complicated objects in perspective is something I'm excited to keep improving at! Feedback welcome!
K. Williams
I drew my front hallway for one of the line projects so here's my kitchen! I think something might have spilled on my sketchbook or some kind of moisture is causing my paper to warp. I'll need to grab a new one. Doesn't exactly help my lines, ha ha!
Melanie Scearce
These are beautiful! I really love the variety of line widths you used.
@ralk
1mo
I put the sink in the ceiling as the assignment instructions tell us to.
Estel
2mo
That was really difficult, I am horrible at perspective, I haven't really practiced anything but rotating boxes. However I want to get serious about it because I am interested in environment art. I wanted to do it on paper, not digitally, so I can make irreversible mistakes and train myself to make straighter lines freehand. Any critiques are greatly appreciated <3
Melanie Scearce
This is an awesome scene! I love all of the details with the food on the table and kitchen supplies on the walls. Great atmosphere. You are by far horrible at perspective :) It's tough to stay consistent when you're freehanding these lines, but it's important to maintain the illusion. Some areas in this image converge at different points along the horizon line, so keep an eye out for that. You want all of your lines converging to a single point in 1-point perspective. You might like to jump ahead a bit and check out the How to Draw Cylinders video from this course. It will help you construct that barrel in perspective. You would need to draw a cylinder and then bulge out the middle for that barrel shape. Here's a link to that tutorial: https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/how-to-draw-cylinders-and-ellipses
@almagel
2mo
Sabyasachi Goswami
This was fun. The concept was clear enough but putting and keeping on adding stuff was fun . Hope my draw -a-box practice shows up in the lines.
Michael
2mo
Thank you for this exercise :) I will do more practice
@ghostpengi
I think I was tired and my line quality got absolutely nuked whoops, but good to get back into drawing
Petar Ristic
Just did a bathroom and closet rough sketch
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