✏️ TWO-POINT PERSPECTIVE
✏️ YOUR SKETCH KIT
This lesson introduces two-point perspective. You will place two vanishing points on a horizon line, build a box with both, and finish with a simple street corner or pair of buildings so nothing looks like it is tipping off a cliff.
- ✏️ Graphite pencil: HB for layout, light pressure on guide lines
- 📄 Sketch paper: landscape orientation gives room for both vanishing points
- 📐 Ruler: draw horizon and guide lines straight
- 🧽 Eraser: remove guide lines after the box is solid
- 🖍️ Colored pencil (optional): mark horizon and vanishing points in red
Time: about 10 minutes · Draw guide lines lightly · Practice a street corner at the end
PAGE 1 OF 5, TWO VANISHING POINTS
THE SETUP
HORIZON LINE + TWO VPs
Two-point perspective starts with a straight horizon line at eye level across your page. Place one vanishing point on the left and another on the right, both sitting on that horizon. Every line that runs deep into the scene on the left side will aim toward the left VP. Every line that runs deep on the right side aims toward the right VP. Vertical edges stay upright. This is how we draw most corners we see in real life, like standing on a sidewalk and looking at a building edge. Your angry squirrel staring at a phone still needs a believable bench and wall behind them, and two-point keeps those props grounded.
⚡ DID YOU KNOW?
The horizon line is not always the sky. Indoors, the horizon is an imaginary line across the walls at the height of your eyes.
2 VP!
HORIZON
👁️ Eye-level line across page.
➖ Draw it level with a ruler.
➖ Draw it level with a ruler.
VANISH
◀️ VP left on horizon.
▶️ VP right on horizon.
▶️ VP right on horizon.