How to Draw in Perspective using Procreate Drawing Guides

hi i'm lisa bardeaux and today i'm going to be teaching you about perspective i'll be giving you a lesson on one and two-point perspective the effects of manipulating your vanishing points and i'll show you how to use procreate's perspective guide feature then i'll show you how i use all of this to create this interior scene illustration i've prepared a perspective worksheet that you can download for free and follow along and learn you can find it on my website at bardobrush.com perspective if you're new to procreate i recommend watching my intro to procreate tutorial to get you familiar with all the basics and don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell icon so you don't miss a future tutorial this lesson is the third video in my scene school series where i teach you how to draw scenes and discover your style one piece at a time you can find out more on the scene school website and i'll put a link in the description so far we've drawn a nature scene a rural scene and now we're starting to learn about interiors so interior scenes have lots of walls and angles and flat planes and things like that so that's why learning perspective is going to be so important let's get started so let's talk about perspective perspective is a method or technique that we can use to portray three-dimensional objects on the two-dimensional surface of a drawing perspective gives the illusion of depth and dimension and can give your drawings a sense of space there are lots of ways to achieve this but this lesson will focus on one and two point perspective so let's start with a couple definitions horizon line the horizon line is the imaginary or sometimes visible line that runs horizontally across a scene this line denotes where the sky meets the sea or land and it represents the viewer's eye level vanishing points are the points at which all lines seem to converge so if you were to look straight down a road or something you would notice the sides of the road would converge until they finally connect at what is known as the vanishing point so what really is the difference between one and two point perspective one point perspective is used when you're looking flat on something like looking at a flat wall not at from an angle if all of the lines converge to a single point that would be one point perspective here you can see that the back wall behind the bed is just a perfect square we're not looking at it at an angle it's straight on so two point perspective would be where if you're looking into a room none of the walls are perfectly flat you're looking at all the walls from an angle so you can see that if i look at this room we're looking at the corner and the two walls are both angled none of the lines of the floor ceiling are parallel and that's essentially the big difference when we're talking about interiors if one of the walls is completely flat that's one point perspective if we're looking at into a corner and we're seeing that both walls are at an angle that's two-point perspective so i'm going to show you how to use procreate's perspective guide feature to do a drawing in one point and two-point perspective okay let's go into procreate and open the perspective worksheet again you can download this file for free on my website at bardobrush.com perspective when you open it up you'll see two thumbnail frames in the top we'll be doing a one point perspective drawing and in the bottom we'll be doing a two point perspective drawing you'll also see a line going through each of these frames to represent the horizon line remember the horizon line represents eye level so i've placed these about a third of the way down in the frame open up the layers panel and you'll see some layers that i've already created for you just make sure that you begin drawing on the layer labeled sketch here you'll notice underneath the layer name it says assisted which means drawing assist is turned on for this layer we'll get to that in just a sec let's go ahead and zoom in on the top frame and we're going to begin first by doing a one point perspective drawing to enable procreate's drawing guide feature first go to the actions menu canvas and toggle on where it says drawing guide a grid will appear and we need to change that to a perspective guide so let's go ahead and hit edit drawing guide down here there's a few options and i want you to tap perspective now nothing's going to appear on the screen because we first need to create a vanishing point as it says up here so zoom in and then tap on that little dot right under where it says one if you don't get it exactly right you can move it around and just get it pretty close and in order for us to do this perspective sketch we need to make sure assisted drawing is turned on that's what i mentioned earlier in the layers panel go ahead and hit done now because we have the drawing guide on and assisted drawing is turned on anywhere that we draw is now going to snap to these perspective lines that are set up through the perspective guide and you'll see that as you start drawing now remember a one point perspective drawing always has one flat plane or one like flat wall so we're going to go ahead and draw the back wall of our room and it's going to be flat like a perfect rectangle and because the assisted drawing is turned on all of our lines are going to be perfectly straight now we'll draw the other two walls by drawing lines that connect from the four corners of the wall outward all right we've already got something that kind of looks like a room now we're going to add the furniture now when i draw objects in perspective what i like to do is draw the footprint of that piece of furniture or whatever it is on the ground and then work my way up build it up and i'll kind of show you we're going to draw a bed right now so first i'm going to draw the footprint of the bed like where it actually sits on the ground and then over here on the left wall i'm going to draw the height of the bed and you always want to make sure that your lines connect at the corners so that everything lines up perfectly now you can see i'm just drawing the top edge of the bed to complete a 3d rectangle and this represents our bed this line down here is going to be like the bottom of the mattress and then i'm going to draw a headboard kind of going up the wall and then i'm going to draw some lines coming up from the other side of the bed that will represent the footboard now i know this bed looks very boxy and boring and like perfectly geometrical but that's okay because what we're doing right now is we're actually just creating guides that are in perspective of the furniture pieces that we're going to draw by hand later on so the next thing i'm going to draw is a door frame over here so i'll draw the shape of the door basically what we're doing is we're going through this entire room and creating all of the furniture and everything else as geometric 3d shapes or 2d if it's on a wall i'm going to put a picture frame over here above the bed and remember these are just gonna be guides this is not our final drawing so it's okay if like lines overlap where they shouldn't like i'm doing the corners of the frame here on the wall i'll put in a little shelf and i'll add a window over on the wall on this side now assisted drawing is doing a lot of the work of making sure all the lines are going in the right direction to achieve this look of perspective over here on the other side of the bed i want to add like a round stool end table kind of thing and you can't draw any round shapes when you're using this perspective guide assisted drawing feature um so i'm going to represent this stool as a 3d rectangle just another box and then over on the other side of the room i'll put in like a like a dresser a chest of drawers so again i'm just drawing another 3d rectangle box kind of thing over here and i can even add in some lines to kind of give me idea of where the drawers can go and then maybe i'll put another picture frame on this wall i'm just kind of like filling up the space with different things and one more thing i'm just going to put in a big old rug right in the middle of the floor right here alright so this is my finished perspective sketch we will be going through and making a refined sketch of this but first we're going to do our two point perspective sketch so go ahead and move on down to the second thumbnail at the bottom and now we need to change our perspective guide from one point to two point so you can see i've got the two vanishing points laid out for you and where the horizon line needs to go so let's go back to the actions menu and edit perspective guide and we can actually just drag the vanishing point from the top frame down to the bottom frame and place it on the vanishing point that i've created for you and then to actually make this a two point perspective drawing we need to tap somewhere else on the canvas to add another vanishing point so we're just going to tap on that other circle so go ahead and adjust them if you need to and then hit done all right so as a reminder when we're doing two-point perspective essentially we're looking into the corner of a room there aren't any flat walls or flat planes so i'm going to start by drawing the corner line of the room and from that line we're going to extend out to the edges of the frame and now you can already start to see this is looking like a room that is viewed like you're looking into the corner so we're going to draw basically the same scene that we drew in the previous thumbnail so let's go ahead and start with the bed i'm going to draw the footprint of the bed and then kind of where it sits along the wall and then the total height of that rectangle that makes up the bed as a 3d object drawing this line to show where the bottom of the mattress is adding in our headboard and our foot board alright so there's our bed and over here on the right i'm going to add in the door frame and now because of the angle we don't really see the whole door frame so i'm just going to draw it all the way over to the edge of the frame and then i'm going to add in a little square over here for my picture frame and then we're going to add our shelf just like before now the only difference here is the shelf you can see it in three dimension now because we're looking at this wall at an angle so we do need to make sure that we draw that shelf in three dimensions so just like creating a footprint on the floor this first rectangle represents the the way that the shelf hits the wall and then we'll draw it extending out of the wall and for these little shelf brackets they're diagonal so i'm not going to draw those in right now since they don't exactly follow the perspective lines and draw the inside of my frame and then i'll move on to doing the window above the bed first as a rectangle and then i'll add in like the frame of the window next i'm going to add another 3d rectangle shape to represent the stool that's going to be next to the bed so first starting with the footprint of it and then kind of building it upwards to the right height that it needs to be so i've got a little bit of extra room here beside my stool so i'm going to add in an armchair over here on the left and i'm building this chair in essentially the same way as a series of 3d shapes so it might be a little hard to see here what i'm doing so i'm going to kind of pull you aside and show you this in greater detail of how i can make a chair out of 3d shapes so in order to draw anything in perspective you first need to imagine it as just a really basic 3d shape so that's what i'm going to show you here all right so this is how i would build a chair out of like 3d qb rectangle shapes first i'm drawing the bottom of the chair like where you would sit as a 3d rectangle and then i'm going to add on the back of the chair as another shape so most chairs have arms so i'm going to use these kind of like rounded rectangles to lay out where the arms are going to go and then from there i can add details and curves and things that are not geometrical and rectangular to give it more shape more volume make it look softer and not just like a super stiff like a block of wood or something i want to make it look soft like it's a chair so i've got some basic details on there and i'm going to reduce the opacity of that sketch and then just go over it with more detailed lines a little bit more refined with a little bit more texture and shape so i'm rounding out a lot of lines and it's not like the best chair but it gives you an idea of what you can do and you can manipulate that basic like two 3d rectangles to create whatever kind of chair you want so essentially that's how you do all the furniture is you start out with a 3d rectangle and then you add curved lines to it until it looks like you want it to look so here i'm drawing another rectangle and this could be like a laundry basket these sketches aren't the best but you know you kind of get the idea a little laundry on top it's like a badly drawn sock that's all right um maybe one more and this could be we'll do something rounded so this could be like a round stool so i'll draw the roundness of the stool within that square that i already drew and really like all a circle is you guys is a square with rounded corners so they work with each other so as you can see using that same rectangle i drew this rounded stool so you can really use rectangles to build just about whatever you want and setting up the rectangle perspective will help you set up the furniture whatever it ends up being in perspective as well so i hope that helps i'm going to go back to our perspective drawing now and the last thing we're going to add to our scene is of course our big area rug on the floor all right so this scene is all done let me zoom out and you can see our two sketches one and two point perspective so at this point we are all done using the perspective guide so we go back up to the actions menu and turn it off and now we're going to refine these really basic very geometric sketches to look like something that has a bit more personality so i'm going to go to the sketch here layer and i'm going to reduce the opacity and then we're going to start working on the layer called refined sketch and there's no drawing assist turned on this layer so you're just drawn freeform at this point and i'm also going to turn off my horizon line and vanishing points i don't need those anymore either all right so i'm going to start with this little stool that we had next to the bed as you can see i'm drawing a round shape within that rectangular qb shape just kind of using it as a guide i'm not really going for perfection with these i kind of want them to have a little bit of wonkiness a little bit of personality because that's my drawing style so that's what i'm doing here and then we will draw the post of the bed and i'll give it an arched um headboard just drawing a curved line using that straight line on the previous layer as a guide i'm going to add a little pillow here and a blanket to my bed and i'm just kind of drawing lines with more character over the top of the lines of the the perspective sketch that i had done then i'm at the foot board in the same way as two posts with kind of like an arch an arch shaped over the top and wow this is a really long bed maybe a little bit too long so kind of pay attention to scale as you're doing your perspective sketches i might have made that big bed a little shorter but whatever i'm going with it all right i'm going to draw in my picture frame and some little details there and i'll even draw something in the picture frame how about a little apple and then i'll draw the shelf and add a few little details i don't really need to draw anything on this wall necessarily in three dimension because it's all flat i'm looking at it straight on so you can't really see a lot of dimension let's draw our door frame and add a doorknob to it don't forget to add the lines for like the floor the walls and the ceiling as well all right let's draw our picture frame over on this side in the same way and again i like that the lines are a little wonky that's really much more my style but this is also just a sketch as well in the end if i were to color this in i would probably refine it a little bit more but i like it it's add a little couple maybe a couple people in this picture all right and now we're going to add that chest of drawers and i had drawn some lines in my perspective sketch to kind of show me the way the lines for the drawers would go so that's what i'm adding in right now and you can see like they didn't get the angle of one side of the drawer exactly right and it looks a little weird it looks like it's leaning the wrong way or something so you do want to make sure you have the lines um following those perspective lines or else it's going to give your furniture it's gonna make it look tilted or weird in a way that you might not want so pay attention to that finally we'll add our rug here at the bottom i'm just gonna outline the shape of that add a couple stripes and some tassels on the end can't forget our window over on this side all right so this is my fully finished room drawn in perspective i had used all of my perspective lines in my previous sketch as a guide and now i have a drawing that still has some personality but it's all drawn in correct perspective all right so next we're going to move on to our two point perspective drawing so we're working on the same layer i'll go ahead and start with that little stool next to the bed just drawing a round shape within that square shape that i had previously drawn add some legs that kind of the legs kind of meet the points on the bottom of the cube like this rectangular 3d shape and this just ensures that it looks like it's firmly planted on the ground let's work on our bed next i'm going to draw the post and that kind of arched headboard i'll add my pillow a blanket and this time we can see the footboard a lot more because we're looking at the room at a different angle so you'll see the whole footboard this time and i'll draw in my picture frame and my beautiful apple artwork and for the shelf remember we're looking at this at an angle so it sticks off the wall so we want to make sure to draw that and now that we're drawing like by hand we can add in that kind of triangular shape for the brackets remember to make them in three dimensions and i'm going to add some items to the top of my shelf maybe some books again i'm making sure to draw these in three dimensions otherwise they'll look funny like they're just weird little flat shapes sitting on top of a shelf okay next i'm going to work on my door frame and doorknob and of course the will draw the floor and the walls and all those lines to make the room look like a room i'm going to draw my window next and next i'm going to work on doing the chair kind of curving out certain parts just kind of winging it here on this chair trying to make it look kind of chair-like all right and then we're going to add our area rug down at the bottom with the same stripe and the tassels and now our two point perspective drawing is complete so here we have it a one point perspective drawing of a room and the same room in two-point perspective as i'm zooming in here i see that i forgot a couple lines on the floor so i'm gonna go ahead and draw those in but overall it looks really good and there's one more thing i want to show you and that is what happens when you change your vanishing points so in procreate i just wanted to show you that it's possible to extend your vanishing points beyond the edges of your canvas and that's going to look something like this and this will have an effect on how your drawing looks let me show you so this is similar to the drawing i did with you earlier with the same placement of the vanishing points let me show you what it looks like if i extend those vanishing points it looks a little bit different let me show you that again so here's the first one with the vanishing points just outside the frame and you can see the lines all converging to those vanishing points and here i have the vanishing points a lot further out and then of course you can see how those lines all converge to those vanishing points and you can see those two look a lot different so what you're gonna get is that if you have the vanishing points closer together it's going to look a lot more distorted almost like you're using a wide angle lens to view your scene but if you put your vanishing points further apart you're going to get less distortion and more compression where things like look like they're overlapping each other a bit more so kind of find that balancing point of where you want to put your vanishing points based on the kind of scene that you want to create all right so now i'm going to show you how i use this technique of using the procreate perspective guide feature to make this interior scene so i developed this interior scene using the scene school process that i've taught you in my previous two videos if you're not familiar with it go check those two videos out and i'm going to give you like a quick run through of it so the components for the interior scene are seating decor items house plants furniture and lighting so these are my studies for seating i sketched out a bunch of chairs and sofas and colored in a couple and i'm also kind of experimenting with my style so i did the style in a couple different ways these are my decor item sketches so i keep a bunch of pinterest boards of like home decor inspiration as you do um so basically i just went through those and scrolled through pinterest and kind of drew whatever it was that i liked next i drew a whole bunch of houseplants and colored those in as well and for this piece i also wanted to work from a limited color palette so i chose one from my free procreate color palette library and this one is called harvest soup then i sketched a bunch of end tables coffee tables and cabinets and colored in a few of those so the last component is lighting so i sketched a whole bunch of different styles of lights and colored in a couple of those as well so as you're putting together your interior scene there is an order to which you should put all the components into the scene and that is this first walls second largest furniture pieces after that you put in your smaller furniture items then you add in your lamps lightings windows that sort of thing and finally finish it out by decorating with house plants and decor items so we have all these components and we need to put them together to create a final scene but it can really be difficult to visualize and lay out the elements of a room in three dimensions so i recommend putting together a two-dimensional floor plan first i drew a big rectangle and that represents the room itself the next thing i did was determine the angle of view i'm going to be looking in from this angle down here at the bottom so i'm looking into the corner of the room and if you remember if we're looking into the corner of the room we're going to be using two-point perspective so that's what i'll use for this drawing so i added my largest furniture pieces which are the sofa and the chair and then some of the smaller furniture pieces like the coffee table the bookshelf the end table next was the lighting i added in a lamp and window and then i got started on my decor items i added in a plant some wall art maybe a basket over here a mirror on the wall i'll kind of add more of this stuff as i work on the actual drawing but it's good to lay out some of the some of the bigger items and then these two walls over here we aren't going to see at all so i'm not worrying about putting anything on those two walls those essentially are behind the viewer you won't be able to see them so here is my finished floor plan for my room and i'm ready to get started working on the perspective sketch of this so this is just a time lapse so you can't see it but i have procreate's perspective guide feature turned on i have assisted drawing turn on and i'm putting in all my furniture again as 3d rectangular shapes according to that floor plan that i had designed previously and once i've done that i'll reduce the opacity of that sketch and start drawing everything by hand using a little bit more character with more round shapes give everything the form and texture that i want it to have and ultimately i want to get my sketch as refined as possible before i start coloring so there's a lot of details here i definitely spent a long while putting this one together but scenes can take a long time but it's a lot easier to approach if you had spent the time creating all those components i'm not imagining any of these furniture pieces off the top of my head right now i've already done that work and this this is what we're going for this finished refined sketch is what we want to create after going through all that really meticulous perspective work which isn't that meticulous it wasn't too hard um but it looked very like geometric and not no personality so this is the sketch that i want that has all my style and personality and now i'm ready to color it in [Music] and this is my finished interior scene drawn in two-point perspective perspective can be a little intimidating but i think once you follow this process you can simplify it a little bit and you'll find a way to incorporate it into your work in a way that suits your personality your artistic style as you can see knowing how to use and manipulate perspective is going to give your scene illustrations a greater sense of depth and an extra touch of realism i hope i've inspired you to draw things from a new perspective you can learn more about scene school on my website i'll put a link in the description see in school is a part of the making art everyday challenge a free series of daily drawing prompts tutorials motivation and a supportive community all with the goal of helping you overcome your creative fears and establish a daily art making practice learn more at bardotbrush.com join mae if you're posting artwork to instagram made with my brushes or tutorials i would love to see it use the hashtag bardo brush and for this tutorial don't forget to use the hashtag sceneschool thanks and happy art making [Music] if you like this video please subscribe for more awesome tutorials and check out one of my other videos have a great day

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Published: Sat Nov 21 2020