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How do I make perfect square grids in 1-point and 2-point perspective?
I’m graduating from high school soon and I’m going to take up architecture when I go to college. Right now I’m designing and drawing buildings for practice. So far, I’ve only drawn isometrics and elevations. So, how do I draw perfect square grids in 1-point perspective? in 2-point perspective?
No links to websites please, I’m on a school whitelist proxy.
(Forgive my bad grammar; I live in a non-English speaking country.)
These will get you a grid, almost as if you had floor tiles in a room. In order to make the whole floor of the environment, just expand the perspective lines outward from what I’m about to describe.
1-point perspective: Draw your horizon line, place your vanishing point in the center. Then, from that point, draw two lines downward, below your horizon line, as if you were making a floor. Draw a horizontal line (parallel to the horizon line) between those two lines. You should have a triangle shape at this point, as if you were drawing a floor inside of a room. Along the horizontal line that you just drew, measure out the length of it and divide it up into how many columns you would like. Make sure to make them even if you want your squares to be perfect. Now, below the vanishing point somewhere, draw a line parallel to the horizon line. This should turn your “triangle” into a “square” (seen in perspective). Now, what you should do is pick a corner of that square, say the top left, and draw a line from that point to the opposite corner, in this case, the bottom right. Now, where ever that diagonal line crosses the perspective lines of the square, draw a horizontal line across that point. You should now have a grid, with proportional distance as the squares go into the distance.
2-point perspective: Again, start with your horizon line, place your two vanishing points at either end of the paper. From each vanishing point, draw two lines downward, so that it makes another one of those “squares” like the floor of a room. Now, draw a diagonal line across the opposite corners (from top-left to bottom-right, and from top-right to bottom-left) so you make an “X” in the square. Now, just draw a line from each vanishing point to the center of that “X” and you will have your original square divided into 4 squares of equal size. If you want more squares in the grid, just pick one of those newer squares, like the top-left, and draw another diagonal line from the opposite corners of the NEW little square. You should only need to draw one line, because your original “X” will make one of the diagonals of that square. Now you should have a new smaller “X” in one of the little squares. Again, draw a line from your vanishing points to the middle of the new “X”. Make sure to draw those lines beyond the little square so that it continues into the larger square. You now want to go to the opposite of that smaller square, in this case the bottom-right. Again, draw your line from corner to corner of the little square to make another “X”. And again, draw a line from the vanishing points to the center of that new “X”, and make sure they continue into the larger square. Now, you should have that original square divided into 16 smaller squares. If you need more, take some of those 16 squares and make an “X” in the center of them, and do the same as you just did before. Tip #1: Choose squares that fall along one of the lines of the original “X”, so you don’t have to draw as many diagonal lines. Tip #2: Draw lightly, so the lines from before aren’t as distracting, and if you can, erase extra lines so you don’t get confused.
Good luck, and I hope this helped. Its hard to describe how to draw the grid in words, so I hope its not too confusing.
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