Project - Build a 1-Point Room - Level 1

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Project - Build a 1-Point Room - Level 1

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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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Wesley
2d
Sinks go into cabinets he said
Wesley
2d
lol I am Stan’s favorite
@landsloth
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
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! :)
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
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
5d
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
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
11d
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.
@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.
Y J Y
12d
Art classroom in 1 point perspective :)
Martha Muniz
Nice!
Maris
14d
My kitchen... Would love some feedback..
Martin M
12d
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.
@osrour
19d
@bovine_designs
I wanted to do a room that wasn't straight on, I used one of Steve's examples. I definitely did a lot more than just boxes but I was having fun 😁
@gecko_cs
that sink placement make me audibly laugh lol
Melanie Scearce
I’ve seen an apartment that actually had a washing machine like this 😂 fun composition, nicely done!
Stephen Worthington
Tried to draw my kitchen from memory (with some slight modifications - I do have an oven! And I invented a low sitting kitchen island to try and make it more interesting) I see a couple of problems, I think the lack of depth on the back row isn't just because of foreshortening, I think I just didn't draw them big enough. I think because I started with the taller cabinet I sort of drew myself into a corner and couldn't amend them. I guess my main takeaway is that I don't know how to do depth accurately yet, hopefully the 20% of the maths will get me there! Either way, fun exercise and I think I added enough to keep it challenging. Any critique/feedback gratefully received :)
Melanie Scearce
I think the size of the cabinets looks fine, the area that throws me off a bit is where the cabinets meet the fridge. It could definitely look like that irl but I think adding a small section there could help the viewer understand the shape of the room a bit more. Overall your design looks good and you have great line quality here 👍
@dukal
26d
it’s been a will since I have done perspective. My lines are so wobbly. I will need to do more warms up
@sosoph
26d
Hi :). This was my first attempt at drawing with perspective. I found working without a ruler challenging. I also found it tricky to figure out the size of objects and how to foreshorten them properly. Next time, I think it would help to sketch out a little room layout first before diving into the perspective drawing. Right now, the layout of my drawing feels kind of random haha.
Gloria Wickman
Here's my level one version of a room. It felt like the distortion started to get pretty severe toward the edge of the page when making the bed. Where I wanted to draw the lines mentally was quite a bit different from keeping the length and width parallel and only having the depth lines converge. I had a lot of fun with this assignment and it stretched my brain in a new way.
Melanie Scearce
Glad to hear that it challenged you! Well done 👍
Arthur Nesbitt
I had a lot of free time at work this week so I finally got around to doing this assignment. However that means I was working with whatever paper I could find lol. I actually enjoyed this tho. I definitely should have put more stuff in the 2nd picture but all in all I think it was a productive session
Melanie Scearce
I really like these. The woodshop scene is really cool, and it's impressive you put the poster in perspective. I did notice that the cabinet is clipping the wall a bit in the first image, so just be mindful of that. Overall, great job!
hobodios
1mo
Anyone else having ideas that are way too complicated to replicate and it just ends up looking worse than in your head xd? Maybe because I need to use more than one point but I don't know how yet. Any feedback would be appreciated!
Rachel Dawn Owens
You could totally make a 1 point perspective drawing with this composition. If you’re putting the fish in the middle, I would push the perspective on the cat more. Gives it more dimension and space. Keep up the fun ideas
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