How to Draw a House in 2 Point Perspective Step by Step

Hello and welcome to my new video, my name is Tom McPherson and this week I'll show you one simple way to draw a house in two-point perspective, the first step in this drawing is to draw a horizontal line that is a little lower than the middle of your page, next you need to draw two crosses which are far apart from each other, next draw a short vertical line that is slightly to the left of the center of your page, now you could draw a diagonal line from the base of this vertical line to the vanishing point on the left and now draw another diagonal line from towards the top of this vertical line to the same vanishing point on the left, next we can draw two more diagonal lines going towards the vanishing point on the right, so that we get this sort of shape, now the next thing we need to do is to draw two vertical lines, one on the left and one on the right and these will be the two sides of the house that we are drawing, now on the right hand side of the house draw two more diagonal lines that make a cross, this will be a good way to find the center of this rectangle and then we need to draw a vertical line that goes up through this cross, this center that we've just found, next draw two diagonal lines to make a triangle for the roof, now draw a long diagonal line from the top of this triangle to the vanishing point on the left, next we need to copy the diagonal line on the left of the triangle that we've got for the back of the roof of the house that we're making, so you just need to read across that line and copy it so they both make parallel lines, for this drawing of a house I'll add an extra line towards the left and the right vanishing point, this will be useful when I draw maybe some steps to the doors later on, now draw another cross, this time on the left hand side of this house and find the vertical center line again, now that we've got this we know where the door on the left can be, if we want it in the center of the house and then the top line of this door will go towards the left vanishing point, next we can add some windows either side of this door, again the top and the bottom of the windows will go towards the left vanishing point and the uprights, the vertical lines will be vertical, so next we can just repeat what we did on the left of this house onto the right hand side, putting a central door in the center and then a window again on the left and right of the door and we can work out the height of these windows and doors by reading across the lines from the left side of the building and then as they get to the nearest corner of the house, so the front corner of the house, the nearest corner of the house, everything on the left of that goes to the left vanishing point and everything to the right of that middle corner of the house goes towards the right vanishing point, in two-point perspective that's how the diagonal lines will work, for this drawing later on I think I'll use some shading and put the house in some sort of landscape or environment and add some clouds, so I'll speed up the drawing a little bit later on, please subscribe to my YouTube channel, Circle Line Art School, where I post one video each week, an art tutorial, there are over a hundred and eighty of my videos now on YouTube and they're all free to watch, so thank you very much for watching, I hope you enjoy watching the rest of this drawing and see you next time, bye bye...