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.

Applesmapple
This was hard without a ruler. I didnt even put books into my shelves. 30 minutes later and half an eraser later >_< my lines are still crooked! Must try this again, and again, and again.... hope everyone is having fun
Applesmapple
I saw a room William Montalvo posted from earlier in the posts and it reminded me of a space ship. And it inspired me to try my own. This really hurt my brains but it's got depth. Just have to keep working on being even. Sorry it loads in sideways.... Going to knead a new eraser (yes that was a lame attempt at pun.) Goooo prokosians!
Tim
4d
Here's a couple of scribbles from me. One is a warm up with some Tetris blocks and Space Invaders types emerging from hyperspace... maybe.. and the other is a dog's eye view of a front room. I got too cocky and ignored Stan's advice, stupidly attempting to put in a circular lampshade and rightly getting burned like Icarus for my hubris. Also, I found it a real challenge drawing any lines close to the horizon line (in the second picture, the bottom of the chair legs are a good example). A fun exercise - now on to butcher some heads!
Melanie Scearce
This is a really charming scene, and I think it's cool that you gave the ellipse a try! It's hard to do correctly in perspective. In order to make it work you would need to find the minor and major axis of that cylinder, and use another smaller square (since it tapers) to find the correct shape of the lampshade. If you want to jump ahead a bit and give it a go, here is the lesson on cylinders: https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/how-to-draw-cylinders-and-ellipses.
William Montalvo
Two versions of using a ruler. A: Ruler underlay locked into perspective + hand drawn inking pass. B: Ruler underlay locked into perspective + locked inking pass with some hand drawn bits. Would love to know which of these is working better.
William Montalvo
Decided I would try to do this digitally without a ruler because I like pain.
@brimarie
:-) i love it!
Sergey Kuznetsov
I keep practicing with my charcoal pencil and an overhand grip. Experimented with cylinders to see how they would look like in a one-to-one-point perspective. I would appreciate any feedback on those 🙏
William Montalvo
Nice. Cylinders are tricky to eyeball. There is def a correct way to do them in one point that Stan hasn't gone over in this lesson. You can actually measure them pretty precisely into the space.
@appa93
10d
My love letter to 101 Dalmatians background art in 1 point perspective
William Montalvo
Very nice colors and design.
Bubbles
11d
I live in NYC, and these are everywhere, I really liked them as inspiration :) so I did one. Honestly, doing backgrounds is so time consuming that I now understand why most comic artists use 3D assets and just avoid it. I want to do my own comic in the future, and I’d love to have my own backgrounds since It's going to be based on Manhattan and I have a ton of inspiration on a daily basis but I can clearly see how backgrounds can add 10–20 hours on top of the weekly schedule so I doubt is doable :(
William Montalvo
You can get a lot faster at backgrounds. Might be a good idea to look at the Framed Ink and Framed Perspective books. Marcos Mateu Mestre is very fast at BGs. I've seen him draw them live.
Tommy Pinedo
This brings back memories for me, I was born and raised in nyc and at times I miss it! nice job! 👍🏻
Melanie Scearce
Those pigeons are absolutely amazing. Great study! The more you do of something, the faster, more efficient you get. If that's a goal of yours, maybe try fitting in a background sketch where you can every week.
@jfd
11d
I did a kitchen I know from memory.
Bubbles
12d
WOW, this is really time consuming, and it’s hard to understand the difference between all of them. At first, I wanted to do a 1PP from the POV of a hamster in a living room, with a table, chairs, and all of that, but when I tried it, it didn’t feel right. I attached the rough sketch I did of the general idea I was having. I was setting up the big shapes but it felt wrong, so I switched to the laundry room. I'm getting confused hahaha maybe I could have done it if the vanishing point was a bit more up?
Bubbles
12d
I attempted the hamster POV again after doing the room, and there are still things I can’t figure out. I can imagine different ways of drawing the chairs but I don’t know which one is the correct one.
Shenmin Zhou
tiny kitchen with washing machine
Shenmin Zhou
just realized I used the wrong vanishing point for the shelf...
Jason O'Toole
It can be tricky to work in perspective but very fun and rewarding
@alegi
17d
It s so beautiful!
thesleepypiggy
No sheets because I didn't want to draw them. Got a sink though.
thesleepypiggy
forgot to rotate.
Kristen
26d
The first three were mostly, if not all done without a ruler. The train station a ruler was used heavily. I need to gain more confidence with scaling up in size. I feel like I learned quite a bit though in how to position things and and a bit about proportions.
Nilsa Rodolfo
@seandraws
1mo
I originally wanted to add a person. But decided against it
Martha Muniz
Strong start! Just keep in mind that the horizontal axis will only have parallel lines -- so the edges of the bed and the books will also align with the rest of the straight horizontal edges, like in your bookcase, desk, and walls. With a 1-point perspective, only the edges going away from the viewer into the vanishing point will be diagonal -- everything else will be straight up/down or side to side. Let me know if you have any questions :)
@dbd1000
1mo
For my level 1 assignment i drew a subway station, empty bookshelfs, and a pair of skyscrapers.
Keith Harrison
Bedroom
@araka
1mo
First, I made a few small versions to find one I liked, and in the end, I chose the library design. I redid it bigger and cleaner—it was fun to make
@araka
1mo
Jose Anton
2mo
Martha Muniz
Hi! I think you are getting the concept of one-point perspective. There is a bit of a tendency to overshoot the placement of the lines beyond the vanishing point when putting perspective into practice. But don't worry, as it's a common tendency as we train our eyes to match what we feel is correct vs what actually is correct. Visually following your lines (like in the top example in orange) then comparing it to the true placement following the vanishing point (like the bottom example in blue) is a good way to keep training your eye for perspective. Keep going :)
Charlie Forray
Fun project! Might try to fill the room more and clean some stuff up. Drew this from pressing play until the lesson ended. So about a 35 min drawing.
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