Hi! Sorry for the slow down in posting. School’s gotten kinda busy and Marisol and I are working hard to build a better website. We want to make it easier for users to communicate and we also noticed that the website is kinda hard to navigate. We want to everything categorized well so that people who want to learn more about fine art won’t get stuck sifting through tutorials on how to draw. But we haven’t forgotten about you! We’ve recently received a lot of feedback on the types of posts that our viewers would like to see more of. So far, we’ve heard that users want more:

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I didn’t forget how to draw tutorials. Today I threw together a tutorial on how to draw forks in the road. This how to draw tutorial will use the really tricky vanishing points. I know, it might seem like a lot at first. But if you take everything step-by-step, you will be able to create images that are 3D and have the right proportions.

Start off by drawing a horizontal line. This will be your horizon line, which is basically the point where you would see the sky meeting the ground if it weren’t for all the objects in the distance.

Find the center of the horizontal line and mark that with a dot. That will be the vanishing point, which is the point where all lines on your page inevitably converge. This makes the semi-mystical goal of drawing in correct proportions all the more achievable.

Draw two slanting lines that start on the vanishing point and extend downwards and away from each other. Then move along your horizon line to the right and choose a spot for another vanishing point. Draw two diagonal lines that extend from this new vanishing point to the lines that you just drew.

Choose a vanishing point on the horizon line that rests somewhere on the left side of horizon line. Draw two diagonal lines that extend and touch the diagonal line closest to them. Make these lines somewhat wider spaced. Then, start drawing vertical lines. In this shot, the camera is perfectly upright. So all vertical lines will be perfectly straight rather than slanting in a certain direction. Of course, for the horizontal lines, there will be a different story.

You can continue to get more creative here. When you’re drawing a bunch of buildings that are neatly aligned on a road, most of the horizontal lines will follow the vanishing point. That means that all the lines that make up the bottom and top parts of the buildings will be able to extend all the way to the vanishing point. This is great, since you can have lines that are in perfect proportion by just having them travel to and from the vanishing point. However, when you’re drawing a fork in the road, some buildings won’t perfectly follow this plan. The bottom parts of these buildings will follow the roads that they are next to. I don’t know any tricks for those buildings, so I had to eyeball them. If I ever do learn a trick, I’ll put it in a post for sure.

Draw lines that extend from the left vanishing point in order to set up the rooftops of the buildings in the background.

Draw the vertical lines for these buildings travelling directly downward.

Erase the guidelines and start adding any details you want.

Yours truly,

Alex