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.

Geo Lovinaria
Decided on a random room but I should have done a kitchen so I can have more boxes in it.
Rio
4d
My first attempt at creating a 1 point room, vaguely based on my kitchen from memory, got a few things wrong but the general spirit is there.
@jorge21
6d
I tried to draw a bathroom. Any feedback would be great
Alexandre Frazao
Long straight lines are hard
Blaise Burns
Here's my assignments for the project. The first two are from imagination, the third is from observation. Oddly enough, it was simpler to do the ones from imagination. I think I put the vanishing point on the one I did from observation in the "wrong" place, which created a fight between what I was seeing and what was trying to make its way to the vanishing point, creating distortions. It was fun trying to thing of rooms and realizing that I don't know what stuff looks like. One of my first ideas was the inside of a barn and although I could come up with a list of things that would be inside a barn, I could not visualize how they would actually exist in the space. It's not even that they were symbols, but just words or ideas. Anyway, that was a big revelation to me and I look forward to learning more.
Melanie Scearce
These are great observations. Building up a visual library by practicing drawing from observation really helps when you go to draw from imagination. If you study and draw a bunch of pitchforks for example, from different angles, you'll have that information to pull from when you try to draw a pitchfork without reference. This topic gets covered in the intuitive perspective module, and it's really fascinating!
@robikobi
12d
My submission for the project. Tbh I didn't really have much fun with this assignment, I think rooms are not really my thing haha, or maybe it's just the one point perspective and the limitation that everything has to face towards the "camera". I know Stan said no circles, but I had to include a few just to break the monotony of cubes.
@quinnenshotz
Looks great, especially considering you didn't enjoy making it. 😀
Clément Douziech
First attempts before watching the demo. I struggled more than I expected but new challenge I guess !
@eduardovera2025
I watched both demos before the exercise, did a lot of first point try outs and after some time I got the knack for putting little boxes and making them props, this was a fun project to do
Rio
20d
First dedicated perspective drawing ever, my hand has a rlly bad wobbling problem so I did get frustrated and grab a ruler for some of it but I did go back to freehand. Straight lines are one of my weakest points
Sneek
23d
Did 2 traditionally and 2 digitally. I probably should've added more objects/details. I did all of them with no ruler. My lines are very wobbly but i think i got the perspective down, at least with boxes. It can definitely be tricky at times, especially with those slightly angled lines and planes...
@flappymcbitey
I resorted to using a ruler, as my lines are not yet accurate enough for this kind of drawing.
Carlos Javier Roo Soto
Alright. First try on this project along with warm-ups. This was hard not so much because of the perspective but because my sketchbook is bigger and heavier than the one I used before, it was hard to rotate and get precise long lines. But I did the best I could. Any advice? Rather than having the sketchbook flat on the table I lean it on the edge of the table so I don't have a distorted view of my drawing.
Federico Martini
HI Carlos, What paper format is it? A3? My best advice is finding a ruler, measure the half of the page, and draw a horizontal line from there, this will gave you two parts to draw in the same page, and they should be big enough, hope this helps
Ronald Moss Jr
This is my kitchen: the fridge and freezer is on the left side, I have a sink right next to it (awkward position) and the stove and microwave and everything. Now that I think about it - I FORGOT TO DRAW MY OVEN! So, please feel free to criticize, but keep it positive. Thank you.
Ilana Eisenhart
My one point perspective room. It is heavily decorated on the right side because after I finished it, I was burnt out and kept the left side more minimal, although the impractical sink is there. I look forward to the other perspective lessons. Despite the burnout, I did enjoy this project. I also relied heavily on a ruler. I did not eyeball it because that felt more overwhelming at this point. Using a ruler helped keep the drawing clean because I could just draw the lines where they were needed.
Grant
1mo
Here is my Level 1 submission! I sketched it out in pencil but used a blue ballpoint to highlight the room in perspective from the POV of a 6 ft 5 person. Not sure what I made exactly, I think it’s an arcade laundry mat lol. My biggest struggle was faithfully following every box corner to the vanishing point, if anyone has tips on improving that skill I would appreciate hearing it.
Melanie Scearce
It comes down to developing your pencil dexterity, which will happen over time as you practice. You could warm up with line drills if you want extra practice, though it's not very exciting work. I'd plot down a couple of points and try to draw a straight line from one to the other. Start close together and as it gets easier to connect with a decently straight line, start increasing the distance between the points.
@toufubox
1mo
Tried adding linework into this practice. Hope it turned out somewhat decent.
Rich Acosta
After spending probably way too long on the gesture project, this felt like a major relief.
Caden Y
1mo
I normally only draw people so this exercise was rough but very much needed, will definitely have to do more of these and with more detail too.
Luis Ángel Ruiz de Gopegui Rando
Hi, here's my room with some extras...
gunk
2mo
This was my first time drawing a room properly, and it was a lot of fun! Maybe a bit too much fun, because the line quality isn’t great overall; I got carried away with the drawing too often. Lots of overshoots, line weight variance, and boring shapes. I set the horizon line very high, to exaggerate the small size and narrowness of the room. Not sure if it worked, though.
João Rudge
I really liked the line weight and composition.
William Montalvo
Very cool
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