How to draw · Challenge · about 45 minutes
Bedroom in Perspective
You need: Paper, Pencil, Eraser, Ruler. Optional: Colored pencils for the walls, bed and wood.
Thick lines: draw these now. Thin gray: already drawn. Dashed: light guides you erase later.
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1. Draw a rectangle in the middle of your paper for the back wall. A bed will stand in front of it, so draw the middle of the bottom edge lightly.
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2. Draw a light horizon line across at your eye level, a little below the middle of the wall. Mark the vanishing point on it, near the middle.
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3. Line your ruler up with the vanishing point and each back-wall corner, and draw out to the edge. Draw part of the right floor line lightly: a dresser will hide it.
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4. Draw a window on the back wall. The back wall faces you, so the window is a plain rectangle. Add a cross for the panes and a thin sill.
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5. Draw a door on the left wall: two vertical lines up from the floor line, the near one taller, joined by a top line aimed at the vanishing point. Add a knob.
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6. Draw the foot of the bed as a flat rectangle on the floor, under the window. It faces you, so it has no slanted lines.
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7. From the bed's two top corners, draw toward the vanishing point: firm until you reach the back wall, then light the rest of the way to check your aim.
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8. Draw a soft pillow near the back of the bed, and two straight lines across the mattress where the blanket folds back. Lines across stay flat.
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9. Draw the headboard as a rectangle on the back wall, behind the pillow. Stop its bottom line where the pillow is in front.
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10. A dresser stands against the right wall. Draw its near end, the part facing you, as a tall rectangle. The light floor line runs behind it.
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11. Draw its top and bottom edges toward the vanishing point: firm to the dresser's far end, then light guides to check. Close the far end with a vertical line.
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12. The drawers are on the side facing the middle of the room. That side goes back, so the two drawer lines aim at the vanishing point too. Add three knobs.
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13. Draw a picture on the right wall above the dresser: vertical sides, with top and bottom lines aimed at the vanishing point, and a frame inside it.
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14. Draw a rug on the floor in front of the bed. Its front and back edges are flat; its sides aim at the vanishing point. Add a border inside.
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15. Draw floorboards from the bottom of the back wall toward you, each aimed back at the vanishing point. Stop at the bed, the rug and the dresser.
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16. Erase every guide: the horizon line, the vanishing point, the light check lines, and the light floor lines now hidden behind the bed and dresser.
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17. Light comes in through the window, so the faces turned toward you are turned away from it. Shade the bed's foot, the dresser's end and the door: a middle value.
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18. Each piece of furniture casts a shadow on the floor toward you. Cross-hatch those shadows darkest. The window wall stays white: the lightest value.
Practice here
Tip: Make the back wall about a third as wide as your paper. Too big a back wall leaves no room for the side walls.