1. One Point Perspective

2. 1
2
3..
and so on...
there are 12 on
this wall
Choose a wall in the room and count the
ceiling tiles across that wall.

3. draw a horizontal line across your paper
about 1/3 of a way down
this is the ceiling line

4. The line is perfectly horizontal.
To do this measure down from the top
of your paper, this line is down 2.5”.
Make two marks one on both sides
of your paper.

5. find the center of the line

6. Divide the number of ceiling tiles in 1/2 and put an
even number on both sides.
The count from our wall is 12, so there is six tiles on
each side of the center mark.
Mark each tile at an inch or a half inch, they are a half
inch in this demonstration.

7. Do the same for the other half of the tiles.

8. See the left and right
top ceiling corners?
The first and last tiles are at the corner of the
room you are drawing. The first and last mark
become the spot where you draw the vertical
lines to make the side walls for your room

9. Close up of where the vertical
line starts for the side wall,
meeting at the top left corner.

10. Draw the vertical lines down from the mark.

11. This part is tricky, you have to use artist observation to
find the floor line... you have to look at the shape of the
wall you chose and decide where the floor line goes.
Make sure it matches the shape of the wall you are
looking at.

12. Those shapes match...

13. Erase all the excess lines so you are left with the
back wall rectangle.

14. FIND THE VANISHING POINT
Make an X in the rectangle. The intersection
of the X will be the vanishing point.

16. The intersection is the vanishing point.

17. Using the vanishing
point as your starting
point, draw all
four lines from the
corner of your back wall
to make the
walls, ceiling and the
floor.

18. The line comes from the vanishing point,
and extends though the corner. You do not
have to draw though the back wall.

19. Draw you lines for all four corners.

20. Begin the orthogonal lines that make up the lines for the
ceiling tiles that go from the back of the room over your
head

21. The line originates from the vanishing point, goes though
the mark on the ceiling line and extends to the edge of
the paper.

22. Complete those steps for all the marks you made for
ceiling tiles across the ceiling line of your drawing.

23. Draw the “helper” line that will help to make the ceiling
tiles look like they get smaller as they go back in space.
Start it at the back right corner at about a 40 degree
angle.

24. Each time the “helper” line intersects with one of the
ceiling orthogonal lines that is where you place your ruler
to make the horizontal line that makes up the ceiling tiles
going from left to right of the room.

25. The first horizontal line would start where the small arrow is, but for the demo you can see the second one better.
Rest the ruler on the intersection, make sure it lines up
with the ceiling line and is perfectly horizontal.

26. Keep making horizontal lines though the intersections.

27. Compete the lines to the very top of your paper.

28. Take a look at the left wall, any line that appears to
horizontal is going to be drawn as an orthogonal. All of
the vertical lines will stay vertical.

29. Drawing the column in the corner. start with the
line on the left wall that goes from the ceiling line
to the floor line.

30. Make that first line into a rectangle.
Continue by making a horizontal line come
our from the top and bottom of the first
line you drew.

31. Use your artist observation to
determine how wide that
column should be.

32. The second vertical line that makes the rectangle must
complete the rectangle by closing it off at the top and
bottom.

33. Find the right side of the rectangle by drawing orthogonal
lines from the top and bottom right of the rectangle.

34. Connect the orthogonal lines
with a vertical line that goes
from the top of the back wall
to the bottom.

35. window on side wall
start with the square in space

36. window on side wall
the the “tiny rectangle” that cuts
into the wall

37. window on side wall
“tiny rectangle”

38. window on side wall
“tiny rectangle” gets orthogonal
from the vanishing point through the
left corners, top and bottom

39. now add details

40. door on side wall

45. now draw the tables and chairs