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.

Newest
Mitchell Jackson
@schmal
6d
hey guys! I have huge prblems to nkeep a straight line on a bigger scale. Are there any tips for how to get a good long, straight line??
Mitchell Jackson
A good exercise for this is to place two dots on the page then with your pen not touching the page, go through the motion of drawing a line connecting the points. Do that motion a few times then commit & draw the line. Go over it a few times trying to be consistent. focus on starting & stopping right on the points. Try to do it with only the pen touching the paper & focus on the feeling of your arm & shoulder doing the work. After, check your work with a ruler & a red pen to see how you did. Another exercise is to use a ruler to draw some long lines then go over them free hand & try to match them.
Elijah R
7d
A perspective drawing of a room. On the wall is a poster of a very familiar impractical sink. Anyways I love perspective, it’s very fun to 3D-iffy stuff and I love how it can make a page feel alive
Daniel
14d
I chose a garage since I figured I could put a lot of boxes inside it. I also tried to do some cylinder shapes to figure out how they would work with perspective. Open for feedback!
Martin M
13d
I don't see any convergence issues. Good job! I think some lines could be darker and some lighter. It's good to see the x ray vision for this exercise but some of the "hidden edge" lines are darker than some of the "visible edge" lines. For example the rear edge of the lowest shelf should be visible between the two boxes. A darker line there for the visible part of edge would really make the self feel 3D.
Brad Hewitt
Pat Lou
18d
911 TT Perspective is my biggest weakness...
Martin M
18d
You have understood 1 point perspective! There are just a few lines that you likely drew based on other lines near it. Like the lines for the shelves are all almost parallel to each other, while they should be converging to the vanishing point. I think you understand the theory and just rushed a bit with those few lines.
Lib
19d
Rachel Dawn Owens
Nailed it. i love the character of this room.
Scott
20d
Redoing this fun assignment.
Isaiah
23d
👋🙂
Martha Muniz
Woah, so cool!
Djay Elements
Great page of exercises thanks!
Melanie Scearce
Yessss this is amazing. Love the hand in the window detail. Nicely done @Isaiah!
Juan Andres Gonzalez Trejo
really fun project to do i add some impossible angles just for challenge (and for practice !)
Bohdan Fedorchenko
I decided to draw a simple library because I wanted to draw a bookshelf. I noticed my tendency to make everything shift a little bit to the upper right corner, and it was very annoying to fight it all the time
J M
1mo
I tried drawing the same room from two different points of view. The struggle was real. It probably would have been better if I had used a pencil instead of a fine-line pen, but I wanted to force myself to commit to my lines. I struggle a lot with what Stan mentioned in the video—the whole idea of your brain pushing a line a certain way because it feels right, even though it’s not correct based on the vanishing point.
Moses
1mo
whew. being able to hit the vanishing point with the receding lines is one thing, but the much more difficult thing is judging and comparing the depth of objects that are at different depths in the room!! i did try to make it cozy with some plants and art :) line quality suffered because i made one straight line from the shoulder, completely missed, and then got spooked and drew from the wrist. also drawing with fineliner on sketchbook paper, not a good idea. afterwards i checked the receding lines with a ruler. i extended the lines that are close enough in green, and a few i completely missed with red. adding a snapshot of the pencil construction in case anyone's curious.
J M
1mo
100% In a vacuum, aligning the object to the vanishing point is relatively "simple" but the tricky part is keeping the depth relationship of all objects coherent. In my attempt, I am pretty sure I pushed the fridge into the wall rather than out. Fun stuff.
@brimarie
2mo
That was a great exercise. It also stimulates the imagination and I noticed that it's not that easy to come up with things... Any feedback and suggestions for improvement are very welcome:-)
Martha Muniz
Looks great! Love how you even got multiple rounded objects into the drawing. If you're up for more practice, I encourage you to try it with different placements for the horizon line, like a lower horizon line with at least a couple of objects placed above it, so there's more variety in the challenge.
Wesley
2mo
Here is my submission for this project. (Note that if you’re someone who regularly lives at my comments, I will sometimes post my projects, not always.
Artin A
2mo
Wesley
2mo
Nice
@linetime
2mo
Threw in an awkward sink and wound up with an unintentional awkward couch as well that’ll probably get someone smacked in the head on the way up or down by the cabinets above. Should’ve started with the couch and put the cabinets up a bit higher. After checking lines with a ruler as I went along it seems pretty difficult to not start veering the angle of long straight lines or getting the angle right with small lines at a distance. It helped a bit getting my eyes more level with the paper to close the distance and see the angle more clearly. I now have a new appreciation for rulers.
Wesley
2mo
Very awkward sink that makes it look like they replaced a chair with a sink
Joe Burris
2mo
Loved this assignment! I dont know why but I find perspective extremely fun. I appreciate that Stan always adds just a little spice to each challenge to force me out of my comfort zone. So I tried to take that attitude and run with it. I had a few misteps but I learned from each mistake. I still cant quite get a bed to look right but thats okay haha. I know my lines are still a little rough but Im pretty happy. The fact that some of these projects end up with something that even slightly resembles what you're drawing feels really rewarding. Would love any feedback!
Wesley
2mo
Looks good but maybe make the books less round
Wesley
2mo
Sinks go into cabinets he said
Wesley
2mo
lol I am Stan’s favorite
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