Note the extra space I've had to add around the image to fit the vanishing points on the page - when you draw two-point perspective, close vanishing points make your image look compressed, as though through a wide-angle lens. For best results, use an extra-long ruler, and use wide paper from a roll, or tape extra sheets to each side. (You can also tape your drawing to the table, and place your vanishing points on a piece of tape placed out to the side.)
Draw Two-Point Perspective
By Helen South, About.com
Here's a photograph of a box on a table. As with the one-point example, the line across the back is not the horizon line - it's the edge of the table, and is lower than my eye level, and so, lower than the horizon. If we continue the lines made by the edges of the box, they meet at two points above the table - at eye level.
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- What does two-point perspective look like?
- A box in two-point perspective.
- Draw the horizon line and vanishing points
- Place the front edge
- Draw the first vanishing lines
- Add two more corners
- Draw more vanishing lines
- Find the back corner
- Finish your 2-point perspective box drawing
- More two point perspective examples
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