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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Arsen
4h
Here is my attempt
@androida
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?
Nathan Black
I have a sinking feeling about this one lol
Nathan Black
I wanted more sinks so I built a bar in my walkabout sketchbook
Tommy Pinedo
Here is my attempt on drawing a part of my room for 1 point perspective before watching the demo. While I was doing this I noticed 3 things. 1. It feels like doors don’t follow perspective, because I tried drawing a door on the right side but it looks weird so I left it with no door. Doors swing back and forth so I feel like it doesn’t in a way follow perspective but I could be wrong so I was wondering if anyone can answer this? 2. I wanted to use a ruler so bad but I stayed true to just using without one and slowly ghosting the line in. 3. I tried to follow perspective when it came to text such as the poster on the right. I wonder text applies to 1 point perspective. my concerns and questions will probably be answered once I watch the demos and critiques so I’ll get to that soon :)
Melanie Scearce
Really nice job not using a ruler! That is great practice. The door issue is a bit more advanced than this project intends but you could make a simple door with no dimension using 1 point perspective and an ellipse. First you would build the grid and draw your ellipse. Then you would draw a line from the bottom corner of the doorframe to the end point of the door, which would follow the circumference of the ellipse and be defined by you based on how open or closed you want the door to be. You can then follow the line back to the horizon line (same as the original) to find an auxiliary vanishing point only to be used for the rotated plane (door), which you can then follow back to the top corner of the doorframe to define the top angle of the door. There is a video further along in this course about ellipses and cylinders that you might want to glance at, but it's jumping way ahead so keep that in mind: https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/how-to-draw-cylinders-and-ellipses/comments Also, yes the text would follow 1-point perspective rules. You can just think about them as being contained in a 1 point perspective box. Good observation!
Nicole
17d
Picked the red room from Twin Peaks in honor of David Lynch but I guess it never had much furniture in there to begin with.
@yashimon
21d
This is my level 1 assignment for a 1-point room.
@falv4397
26d
Nicole
17d
This looks really cool! I never thought of it this way
Laurent Van Acker
Level 1 and level 2 assignments. I'm no stranger to perspective drawing, and I did the level 1 assignment as a top down view from the ceiling on my living room (without all the children toys). Can you spot the sink? I noticed I automatically seem to have fish-eyed the 'camera', even though I've tried to keep horizontals and verticals aligned, I never aligned the horizontals on the top with those on the bottom... Great practice for drawing straights!
Laurent Van Acker
Open question: How do you guys make your paper drawings more clear for sharing? I purposefully went outside for a picture in natural light but the contrast is worse than on my drawing.
@pmirko
29d
absolutely hard to draw parallel lines in procreate. it's a bit wonky but i guess i've got the idea...
@pmirko
29d
just after i finished this one i found out how to make horizontal and vertical line, lol
CharmLotta
1mo
I started scanning my overdue homeworks and I don't know what on earth I did with the drawing of the bedroom made a few months ago. However, I found a drawing I did for fun. It's also 1-point perspective, so please pass the assignment :-)
Rachel Dawn Owens
You’re on the right track, but it’s difficult to find the horizon line here. If I were to establish it around eye level, you probably wouldn’t see the top of the fridge. The little details in the room are great. I love the ice cream, lettuce, and magazine. Those sorts of elements add a story to your environment. I love the idea of adding character to environments like that. This is a great start. I hope this is helpful. Keep it up!
Donna Swibas
This was very difficult…would like some critique, tips, suggestions. Thanks! Donna
Martha Muniz
Looks great, you really nailed it! I would recommend also getting some practice with the horizon line placed closer to the middle of the room rather than above, so you can practice drawing objects as the viewer looks up at them as well.
Gilles Dubuis
This is surprisingly relaxing
Rachel Dawn Owens
This is a really good one!
@dollydigital
a storage room
Martha Muniz
You've got it! Nice work :)
David D
2mo
I drew the inside of a wood shop. Thought this was a great exercise; though I have a tendency to bend my non-convergent lines. I couldn’t determine a consistent direction, but it was like I had to convince my hand that horizontal was indeed horizontal. It got much better as I formed a habit to stare at a reference horizontal and ghost parallel to that line, similar to ghosting towards the vanishing point. As new habits are want to do, it was a conscious effort to make that happen. would love to hear if others have helpful practices that improve perspective drawing like this. I assume as we include more VP I’m our drawings, it’s going to be like 1 point perspective just harder to get right haha any other critiques would also be welcome. Still chipping away at line quality, but i think I’m starting to see glimpses of improvement!
Mika Vermeulen
I tried to make a baby room from a baby's perspective. My lines can still be a bit messy, sop this was a good practice for making my lines more straight!! Feedback is welcome.
Rachel Dawn Owens
Nice work going for the baby’s eye view. The tricky thing here would be the tabletop since it is so close to the horizon line. The closer to the the horizon line and vanishing point you get, the more distorted the shapes will be. Keep up the practice and thanks for sharing!
Kawaki Jr
3mo
Feel like I kind of get it after a few tries although it still feels a little confusing 😅 like trying to figure out where the floor ends or where I should stop the ceiling
Martin M
3mo
The last drawing from the mouse point of view (camera on the floor) is really good. Its clean and you show a bit of the x ray vision as we can see through the cupboard. Although it seems that the table is against the fridge door so you can't open the door any more :D
Antonio Santiago
Drawing long straight lines was so hard but I like the way it turned out. I put the dishwasher on the ground under the tv stand, how's that for inconvenient! This project really revealed the importance of practicing those straight lines. Its so fun constructing everything and it actually feeling like there's some depth to it.
Chauncey Holder
I tired to do a hanging sink on the ceiling, the project is pretty fun when I finally understood what I was doing slightly
Martha Muniz
Good work overall! To keep the room consistently in one-point, the sink will also converge to the same point as the rest of the objects, as well as the side of the TV and cabinet being kept perfectly horizontal. With the TV as well, it's good that you remembered the rounded bevel of the TV glass screen as it adds believability to the scene, though it can be kept less thick to keep the perspective consistent. Keep going, you got this!
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