Point Perspective Drawing Lesson 2 - How to Draw a Circle doc

Start off by drawing a rectangle or square in perspective just like you learned in the first perspective drawing lesson.. Step 2 - Start to define your box Next draw a vertical line som

1 Point Perspective Drawing - Lesson 2 - How to Draw a Circle

In 1 point perspective drawing lesson one, construction of a cube was the first step that you took What you will learn in this lesson is how to draw a circle in perspective This will come in handy if you ever want to draw car tires, fountains, cylindrical buildings or anything else that uses the circle as its base shape

Step by step drawing of a circle in 1 point perspective

Start off by drawing a rectangle or square in perspective just like you learned

in the first perspective drawing lesson Establish your horizon line first, and then add your vanishing point

Step 2 - Start to define your box

Next draw a vertical line somewhere on the page - for the purposes of this tutorial it will work best if the vertical line you draw and your vanishing point are not too close Now, draw lines from the top and bottom of this vertical line back towards your vanishing point

Finish off by drawing one more vertical inbetween the two lines that you just drew The next thing you'll do is learn how to great a helper grid in 1 point perspective Perspective grids are extremely helpful when you want to draw any kind of curved or irregular shape in perspective

Step 3 - Find the mid point of your shape

In 1 point perspective drawing it's really important that you know how to find the mid point Draw a diagonal line from each corner to make an "X" inside your box Where the lines meet will always be the middle point of the shape

From this point onward in the tutorial you will see a second square on the left side of the image that shows how your drawing would look if it were not

in perspective Use this image to help you understand what is happening in your 1 point perspective drawing, as the images are identical in construction

- the only difference being is that one has perspective applied to it to add depth, and the other doesn't

Step 4 - Divide your box into four parts

Now that you've found the mid point of your box draw a vertical line that passes through the mid point Next, draw a line that passes horizontally through your midpoint and goes back to the vanishing point on the 1 point perspective horizon line What you will be left with is a box that has been divided into 4 equal parts

Step 5 - Find the mid-point again

Use the same diagonal line technique to find your mid points of the four

smaller boxes You may be asking yourself what you're doing right now -

this was supposed to be a circle drawing tutorial right? I hear you! The

reason that it's important to first construct a 1 point perspective grid is that

you will use it later as a guide for drawing your circle The grid will set you

up to get the best result possible, especially if you are new to drawing in perspective

Step 6 - Add in additional horizontal and vertical lines

Repeat what you did in step 4 by adding in the lines that will leave you with

16 little boxes In the next step you will draw the circle

Step 7 - Draw a circle in perspective

Here's where all of your hard work in constructing a 1 point perspective grid

is going to pay off Look at the square in the bottom left of the step 7 image You can see the construction grid that you created and it now has a circle drawn on top of it You can also see the circle drawn in perspective

Pay careful attention to look at where the circle is passing through the guide lines in your perspective grid on the left Your ability to match what you see

in the two images will determine how well your circle looks

Look closely at the top left area of the circle on the left Take note of the exact points where the lines of the circle cross the lines of that perspective

grid Once you have a clear idea of where your circle should cross which

lines, go to your perspective grid, and before you draw anything, put a small point on each of the lines that the circle crosses over exactly at the point where the circle meets the line I'll say thing again because it's very

important How accurately you are able to match what you see in the

drawing on the left to the drawing on the right will determine the success of your drawing

Remember too that if it doesn't look good the first time, try it again and again until it does look good The first time I tried this technique I didn't have a lot of success, but after repeating the process a few times I was able

to draw a circle without a problem

If you are having a lot of problems you could find the midpoint one more time and create an even smaller and more exact grid This may be a good idea in the beginning Drawing more grid lines requires a little extra time, but if that's what it takes for you to master the concept don't sell yourself short Put in the work today and by tomorrow drawing circles should feel completely natural

Step 8 - Cleaning up

Erase the lines that you made to create your perspective grid And you're left

with a great looking circle that's drawn in one point perspective