Project - Build a 1-Point Room - Level 1

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Project - Build a 1-Point Room - Level 1

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Course In Progress

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.

Newest
Bohdan Fedorchenko
I decided to draw a simple library because I wanted to draw a bookshelf. I noticed my tendency to make everything shift a little bit to the upper right corner, and it was very annoying to fight it all the time
J M
13d
I tried drawing the same room from two different points of view. The struggle was real. It probably would have been better if I had used a pencil instead of a fine-line pen, but I wanted to force myself to commit to my lines. I struggle a lot with what Stan mentioned in the video—the whole idea of your brain pushing a line a certain way because it feels right, even though it’s not correct based on the vanishing point.
Moses
14d
whew. being able to hit the vanishing point with the receding lines is one thing, but the much more difficult thing is judging and comparing the depth of objects that are at different depths in the room!! i did try to make it cozy with some plants and art :) line quality suffered because i made one straight line from the shoulder, completely missed, and then got spooked and drew from the wrist. also drawing with fineliner on sketchbook paper, not a good idea. afterwards i checked the receding lines with a ruler. i extended the lines that are close enough in green, and a few i completely missed with red. adding a snapshot of the pencil construction in case anyone's curious.
J M
13d
100% In a vacuum, aligning the object to the vanishing point is relatively "simple" but the tricky part is keeping the depth relationship of all objects coherent. In my attempt, I am pretty sure I pushed the fridge into the wall rather than out. Fun stuff.
@brimarie
26d
That was a great exercise. It also stimulates the imagination and I noticed that it's not that easy to come up with things... Any feedback and suggestions for improvement are very welcome:-)
Martha Muniz
Looks great! Love how you even got multiple rounded objects into the drawing. If you're up for more practice, I encourage you to try it with different placements for the horizon line, like a lower horizon line with at least a couple of objects placed above it, so there's more variety in the challenge.
Wesley
26d
Here is my submission for this project. (Note that if you’re someone who regularly lives at my comments, I will sometimes post my projects, not always.
Artin A
27d
Wesley
26d
Nice
@linetime
27d
Threw in an awkward sink and wound up with an unintentional awkward couch as well that’ll probably get someone smacked in the head on the way up or down by the cabinets above. Should’ve started with the couch and put the cabinets up a bit higher. After checking lines with a ruler as I went along it seems pretty difficult to not start veering the angle of long straight lines or getting the angle right with small lines at a distance. It helped a bit getting my eyes more level with the paper to close the distance and see the angle more clearly. I now have a new appreciation for rulers.
Wesley
26d
Very awkward sink that makes it look like they replaced a chair with a sink
Joe Burris
28d
Loved this assignment! I dont know why but I find perspective extremely fun. I appreciate that Stan always adds just a little spice to each challenge to force me out of my comfort zone. So I tried to take that attitude and run with it. I had a few misteps but I learned from each mistake. I still cant quite get a bed to look right but thats okay haha. I know my lines are still a little rough but Im pretty happy. The fact that some of these projects end up with something that even slightly resembles what you're drawing feels really rewarding. Would love any feedback!
Wesley
26d
Looks good but maybe make the books less round
Wesley
1mo
Sinks go into cabinets he said
Wesley
1mo
lol I am Stan’s favorite
@landsloth
1mo
Tried to do an attic this time. I used a ruler tool to make sure everything was straight and then drew over it in a new layer free hand to help train the muscle memory since I'm not totally confident with straight lines yet. Pretty pleased with how it turned out.
@loghserk
1mo
Damn, this is a fun but difficult project. I notice that if I try to connect two dots from a huge distance, the line tends to curve so the angles don't align properly most of the time. I also tend to draw lines in parallel with each other when the difference in the angles is small. I also somehow decided to extrude the Ikea Kallax inward, which made me feel stupid when I noticed. I will make more of these, so any feedback is much appreciated! :)
Joe Burris
28d
I did the same thing with a door on one of mine that you did with the Kallax. Its easy to get twisted up on this stuff. Its easy once you have the first correct line down but its also easy to not put that line down correctly if that makes sense. Looks awesome though. I especially like peaking into the other room on the left. Really nice.
Luis Ángel Ruiz de Gopegui Rando
At first I thought it would be easy to undertake the task but then I noticed how my brain exploded, I think it is a good exercise against Alzheimer's.
@landsloth
1mo
Attempted to try it free hand as well which predictably turned out worse results than the other two but it's good practice for free hand straight lines at least! Pleased with myself nonetheless.
Martin M
1mo
Good job! Almost all the lines converge correctly. I added a few red lines to show some shelves converging incorrectly. Also a few blue lines to indicate some lines that don't seem correct for 1 point perspective. I agree that it feels better the way you drew the shelf, but with 1 point perspective the lines can only converge to the vanishing point OR be perfectly vertical or perfectly horizontal.
@gecko_cs
1mo
I tried a rough looking dorm room for my first attempt. I find that I sometimes struggle to draw free hand straight lines so I'll have to practise that more.
Tommy Pinedo
Love the poster! It looks good without using a ruler! I have the same issue too when doing this free hand. At times I wanna say SCREW IT! im using a ruler, but nah I never do it lmao!
@mwalker
1mo
I tried this with Proceate’s guides and drawing assist and also hand drawn version using no straight edges (except to check at the end). Hand drawing was challenging and I could definitely use a bit more practice. Using Procreate was fun although is was still surprisingly challenging - especially if I connected the wrong projection lines that happened to be close to each other. In both cases I found myself moving things around to avoid tangents.
Guillaume JORANDON
The sink on the second one is sending me lmao
@deepanshu12
kitchen
@deepanshu12
kitchen
Martha Muniz
You've got the right idea! Everything that needs to converge towards the vanishing point or remain parallel is correct. Just watch out for the thickness of certain items, like the windows and the faucet (you can think about the part attaching the nozzle to the wall as just another box, too). Also, it helps to use the paper's edges as a reference for parallel lines, to keep more consistent alignment. For this assignment, I recommend warming up with some line exercises, too: Warmups to Improve Line Quality. Connecting the Dots and Ghosting (practicing the motion of the line by hovering just above the paper before actually executing it) are some habits to also try with this 1 point room.
You Ji An
1mo
Art classroom in 1 point perspective :)
Martha Muniz
Nice!
Maris
1mo
My kitchen... Would love some feedback..
Martin M
1mo
The surface on the right comes really close to the "camera" so there should be a lot of foreshortening happening. Other lines seem to be good.
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