Cityscape

This cityscape is a 2 point perspective drawing.

A horizontal line marks the horizon, and the two vanishing points are on it (but off the main page. The horizon line was extended with extra paper.)

Any vertical lines in the drawing are parallel, but all other lines were drawn towards either vanishing point using a ruler to align it.  For example, the middle building has lines defining the edge of the roof and the edge at the ground, but on the left of the center they go to the left vanishing point, and on the right it goes to the right vanishing point.

This gives the effect of the buildings appearing smaller as they are more distant from the viewer.  While the far-right building is drawn with a slightly taller line than the middle one, the perspective effect actually makes it twice the height.

Details on the buildings were also drawn by using the vanishing points, and not only the outlines of the buildings.  The design on the far left building is a simple grid.  The circle on the mid-left building, the text on the middle building, and the hearts on the far-right building were all made by first constructing rectangles, then drawing inside of them.  The windows on the left side of the middle building also appear to sink into the building somewhat, because of lines inside of them that actually lead to the right vanishing point.

Some specific successes in this project were the circle and the mixtape advertisement, because despite not specifically fitting to the lines, it was still done well.  I found this to not be very difficult overall, since I've worked with perspective drawings before.

However, there was a challenge with making things look proportional.  I felt that the size of the windows, doors, and sidewalks were off.  As I was drawing the buildings closer to the sides and with lines closer to the horizon line, it was difficult to distinguish the angles of the lines.