1 Point LP Cubes

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:01]hi guys this is mrs withers and today what i'm going to do is demonstrate to you how to draw 10 cubes using one point linear perspective so as you can see here i've already started my linear perspective drawing with uh cubes and the first thing you need to do is establish your horizon line so your horizon line is where the land and the sky meet the horizon line is also known as eye level so since we're not doing a landscape we are just doing abstract cubes or three-dimensional cubes we are going to refer to this as eye level so the first thing you want to do is establish your eye level and the way you do that is to make sure that the edge of your ruler is flush or plumb with the edge of the paper then you draw your line straight across the next thing you want to do is establish your vanishing point now your vanishing point should be very small in the middle it should not be something very big so for instance if you have a big dot that looks like that that is incorrect what i like to do is just have a small point by putting my pencil in the middle and then that will be my vanishing point now with one point linear perspective as you know you are viewing the cube or the object from the front view so this is the front this is the front of this cube front front and because of that the first thing we want to draw is a square so i'm going to use my ruler once again and i'm going to make sure that my ruler is flush or plump with the bottom edge of the paper and i'm going to draw a cube on this side of the ruler and draw a straight line on this side of the ruler and i'm also going to make sure that i finish my cube by aligning my ruler to the edge of the paper and drawing the top edge and the bottom edge of my potential cube now i just use the width of my ruler you can have cubes that are smaller you can have cubes that are larger you can have cubes that look like rectangular prisms it is completely up to you as the artist the size the height the width and the depth of your cubes so now i'm going to put my pencil in the center which is my vanishing point and i'm going to connect the three closest corners of this square to this vanishing point put your pencil on the vanishing point align the ruler with the corner of the square and then you want to draw your receding line swing your ruler to a line to the next corner and then connect it and then again draw your line to the next corner and there you have it so you can see these three receding lines connecting to the vanishing point the vanishing point is on the horizon line and our cube is starting to take shape here or starting to take form now what you want to do is determine the depth and the width of your cube now because most of my cubes are kind of square i'm going to make this one exaggerated i'm going to make it really deep um and wide so it's going to be like a rectangular prism so again ruler placement is very important to make sure that you are aligning your ruler to the bottom edge of the paper and then you also want to make sure that you do the same when you are establishing the back corner and the rear of this rectangular prism and here we have it so now we have a three-dimensional form we converted this square into a rectangular prism this line is parallel to this line and this line is parallel to this one they are also parallel to the left and the right edges of the paper these lines here are parallel to each other and they are also parallel to the top and the bottom edge of the paper so that is how you draw cubes using one point linear perspective a couple of things to note if you are ever drawing a cube that is underneath the vanishing point you're not going to see the left or the right of that cube you're only going to see the front face as well as the top also if you draw a cube that is on the horizon line you're not going to see the top or the bottom of the cube instead you are only going to see the front and you're going to see one side whether it's the left side or the right side depending on its position to the vanishing point so as you can see here i've drawn a rectangle and now that i know this is on the eye level i'm going to erase within it so i don't want a transparent cube and i'm going to connect again the two closest corners close to the vanishing point i'm going to align my ruler and align my vanishing point and now i'm going to determine how deep i want the box to be the depth of the box so then there you have it so again if you draw a cube that is on the actual horizon line or the eye level understand that you are not going to see the top nor the bottom of the cube instead you are only going to see the front and one side of that cube