Project - Build a 1-Point Room - Level 1
Project - Build a 1-Point Room - Level 1
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ASSIGNMENTS

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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Lukas
10d
Here are mine! Not perfect, but I'm getting the hang of it. All of these were done without any rulers or such things, that's why the lines are kind of curvy. I also completely messed up the sizes of the left and right side of the street. 😅
Arca Ludo
13d
My iPad's 11" screen feels a bit small for me, so it's easier to draw smaller things. Maybe with time I'll get used to drawing on a larger scale (Will I?).
Chuck Ludwig Reina
Nice drawings! And yeah, the iPad can get a little cramped, even the larger ones. Maybe try it out on a big sheet of newsprint paper or something? I find switching between digital and traditional really helps both.
@wegneran
13d
nice parspective
Mahfam Zohrabi
My one-point perspective assignment ✏️📐
@alexate
16d
This is my future atelier, with a big table in the center, an easel, and a comfy reading nook by the window. I did it only freehand
Alice Charlington
A living room from imagination
Martin M
15d
Good job! A bit of feedback: When drawing objects in perspective we have an urge to draw many of the lines parallel because the objects in 3d space are aligned parallel. Like the shelves in your picture. While the shelves in 3d space are parallel, when we translate this to a 1 point perspective drawing we need to make them all converge to the same vanishing point. Same with the couch. It should be converging more towards the VP.
@veryartthing
I've been doing a lot of perspective warmups this week based on the projects Stan talked about. I tried various rendering techniques for some to practice other things too, but mostly concerned with getting the perspective right at the moment.
Lukas
15d
These are really cool! I feel like they could be straight out of a visual novel. The only think off that I noticed is the pet bowl in the first image. The cartoon shading on the dungeon images is brilliant, I love it!
@justjen
29d
This is supposed to be a bedroom with a night stand, bed and book shelf. I cannot figure out what I did wrong on the book shelf or how to fix it. I wanted to add more details to the room, but don't want to go further until this is corrected. Any suggestions are appreciated. :)
@na_talie
28d
Your shelf is broad in the front and recedes towards the right hand wall. I have not started the perspective section, yet, but I am pretty shure, that the witdth of the shelf should stay the same. All other angles in your drawing point towards some point in the middle of the room, but the shelf goes into the other direction.
@poetgirl49
ok, I'm following the directions, but this doesn't look like a room to me. What am I doing wrong?
Marcin Ch
1mo
Gave it a go, fun project!
Rachel Dawn Owens
These are adorable. Very charming drawings.
Alison Shelton
I did the sink in the wall. This was fun. I might do more on it and color. I figured I should probably stop for a bit and watch the videos.
Alison Shelton
I decided to make this my Inktober drawing for the day since the prompt was drink.
Daniel Divinus
It is a little slow without a straight edge. Oh, I added the sink too.
@yoyoy12
2mo
This is my first attempt to draw an environment from my imagination. I did the sketch of this school class entirely by hand, and I did the line using the line tool. It seems to me that I didn't do a very good job with depth and variety. I think I can do it better in the level 2 assignment.
@lynnare
2mo
Again, very fun assignment :) I'm also gonna do some more.
Alison Shelton
This is amazing
@brimarie
2mo
Wow!
Melanie Scearce
I love the Drawing Basics projects cameos. This looks great :)
Christopher Corbell
1-point perspective room is a fantasy/medieval alchemist's study. I did a freehand sketch as a first draft, then for my final draft I did use a ruler to lightly mark (4H pencil) perspective lines, however I went over every everything by hand in HB afterward and added details. I had to include some ovals (what's an alchemist's room without jars and vials?) so they are just guestimated, I tried to make those nearer the horizon line a little flatter. The vanishing point is the little circle-triangle emblem on the door. Looking at it one last time before posting, I see an error in the seat of the chair, the far side seems too similar to the angle of the side near the door, I think this was just sloppy final hand-drawing. (...edit: also missing a horizontal line in the top corner of the top shelf of the bookshelves).
Rachel Dawn Owens
Wow! I’m blown away by this one. I love that you made a whole environment and the perspective looks great! You made this assignment fun! All the bottles and trinkets and things give this drawing so much of a story. You went above and beyond. Keep it up! You did great!
@thenotsogrim
I have to say it was kind of impossible disheartening and annoying for me on the very first try, but I did the second one out of spite. After that, the third and fourth were created much faster than I usually do things. Very good practice! And I really do feel that I start to feel less and less self-conscious when starting to draw, which helps with confidence. My linework still needs ... well, practice :D Perspective is one of those things I've always been worried about, so I've cranked these out to see how Stan would do it.
Rachel Dawn Owens
Sometimes you just gotta keep making marks to move forward. You will get better at it. It looks like you’ve got the right idea with the one-point perspective. Some of your drawings are just a bit messy. The assignment works best if you start with light pencil lines. Save the darkest marks for last. You’re on the right track. Keep it up!
@bezet
2mo
Youssef Ateya
Just finished drawing the room and I'm kind of good in perspective but I don't have this dexterity of making good straight lines. I feel my lines is wobbly. I don't know about my lungs. Control and feedbacks are welcomed. I'll gladly read them and it just doesn't feel realistic and I have this concern like I hope in the future. I do some paintings and if I want to do something like this and paint it, I don't know. I need first to do it with graphite and I or if I do it with charcoal for us first then paint on top. I don't know what's exactly the process if I do a painting in the future I don't want it to be wobbly like this. I would love to be have it more realistic so does anyone can tell me something?
@hampop
2mo
This challange was quite fun. Surprisingly to me, it felt harder than I imagined it would be. My submission looks messier than the rest posted here, so I’m looking for any feedback/criticism to improve.
@silver847
2mo
This was sorta tricky and confusing with the number of lines. But I think I did alright!
Thomas Nolan II
This was fun to work on and highlights my wonky line work haha. First is my bedroom and second is the Proko video demo.
Alison Shelton
I particularly love the room.
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