Success in Art: Mastering Perspective

Advanced Two-point Perspective

In the previous chapter, we built a little city block in perspective; but now, let’s fine-tune it using our two-point perspective skills.

Sidewalk

Step 1 Start with the sidewalk—it’s a simple matter of drawing lines past the outer edge of the buildings from VP1 and VP2. Now, simply repeat the same line to create the curb edge—notice the line gets narrower as it goes back to each vanishing point.

Step 2 But we’re ...