Jeffrey Ervin's List: 2pt Perspective Drawing

Draw a road, house and phone poles all disappearing into distant mountains.

This is a two point perspective drawing of a train. It is pretty easy for kids to draw.

In this step-by-step lesson we are going to create a simple "2 Point Perspective" view drawing of our test subject example, working from both plan (overhead) and elevation view (side view or profile) reference Fig 1. This type of illustration angle is referred to as a "3/4 Perspective" or an "Angular Perspective" view. The green dots in all of the following perspective grid diagrams identify the lines to be drawn as shown in each visual example. This type of perspective grid is best done using vector drawing software such as Adobe Illustrator, where you can easily drag a single anchor-point on each line drawn, rotating it from the other fixed anchor-point to create a "projection line" from the fixed point.

In this 2 point perspective drawing lesson you'll learn how to draw buildings and objects at an angle. It's almost the same as the one point perspective but instead of just one point along the horizon you'll have two points. This will allow you to draw perspective objects at an angle - not just straight on like one point perspective. Where the first tutorial just scraped the surface of perspective, mastering 2 point perspective drawing will give you the info you need for drawing more interesting things

You need to use geometric perspective to accurately render cylindrical objects, such as vases or mugs. In this project, I show you how to use 2?point perspective to draw a cylinder. You need your sketchbook, a pencil, and a ruler