Exercise 7.2 Two Point Perspective

For this exercise, you will work off of the image below to create a line drawing.

Materials needed:

• Pencils – 4H, HB, and 4B
• Erasers – white and gray

Time to complete: 30 minutes

Instructions:

In one of the four sections of a page in your large drawing pad, draw the image below.

Stick to the main elements of the room. Items listed below will not need to be drawn unless you want an extra challenge.

• two orange stools
• large kitchen table with six chairs
• three red pillows
• any small decorative objects
• anything outside the windows

Pretend the large dark brown wooden beams are not in the image.

The drawing area should be in a horizontal format and should fit within the drawing area with as little wasted space as possible.

Start with drawing the corner of the room first. However, for this area you do not see the entire back corner of the room due to the island being in front of it. This is fine. All you need to do is position what part of the corner you see in the correct location within your drawing.

Any major lines for this image will either be vertical or go to one of the two points on the right or left.

Once you have the corner in the proper position, add the two walls. One will be the windowed wall and the other will be the cabinets with the refrigerator built in. For this drawing, you cannot use vanishing points, as both are outside of the picture plane. However, you can either use the viewfinder or your pencil as an angle finder to check your angles.

The basic shape of the room is added for some added assistance.