Free Step-By-Step Guide to Perspective Drawing

Architect and illustrator Héctor López shares a useful guide to understand the technique for drawing architectural objects and perspective

In drawing, perspective is used to represent spatial depth. It is a way of looking at three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional plane or surface. This representation helps us understand the proportions and depths of the elements we are drawing and is extremely useful to understand the shape of an object.

Both architects and illustrators know perfectly the power of perspective: it creates depth through drawing and therefore realism.

Perspective is what we use when we draw something with volume, such as a cube. In architecture, it is also used for much more complex subjects such as the representations of buildings in three dimensions.

This guide, provided by the architect and illustrator Héctor López (@_thearchitector), will help you to better draw in perspective step by step. This is an exercise that will allow you to understand how to represent spaces and consolidate concepts such as the horizon line, the land line and vanishing points.

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If you want to know more about this topic, you can so by signing up to Héctor's course, Introduction to Freehand Architectural Design, and learn how to illustrate a custom architectural space with layouts, perspectives, and human scale.

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