Success in Art: Mastering Perspective

Taking One-point Perspective to the Street

Now that you understand the basics of one-point perspective using shapes, let’s practice with a simple one-point perspective drawing of some buildings.

Step 1 Begin as always by securing your drawing board down with some tape on each corner; then draw a horizon line across the middle of the paper and set a vanishing point (remember to draw it as an X) off to the right.

Step 2 Draw a simple block on the horizon line using the vanishing point (see here). Remember, all of the front lines (the side facing ...