How to draw a house in isometric and linear perspective

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Very often the question arises: "How to draw a house?" The easiest way that kids and their parents use is a flat image. That is, drawing a square or a rectangle, a front wall facing the observer, above it - a triangle-roof, windows, pipes. But this is the so-called "children's option." And how to draw a house to make it look more real? Here you should get acquainted with several scientific concepts.

How to draw a house in isometric view?

For the first time we come across this method when studying trigonometry, as well as in drawing lessons. When drawing a cube in trigonometry lessons, we get a visually almost real look in a three-dimensional image. Moreover, all sides of it retain an equal size, and the front one even has right angles. The method of depicting objects in isometric projection is used inmechanical engineering when drawing parts on drawings, in computer-aided design systems and in computer games.

And since you can draw a house in an isometric projection using the algorithm for drawing a cube, then you need to start with a square or a rectangle: it all depends on what the front wall of the depicted object is. Next, draw a back wall identical to the front, placing its base slightly higher than the front wall and moving it to the right or left. The third step will be the connection of the corners of squares or rectangles. Now you should remove the extra auxiliary lines with an eraser. The roof must also be made in isometric projection. This will not be difficult for those who have already encountered the algorithm of such constructions. Thus, the question of how to draw a house with a pencil can be considered resolved. But still, something in the resulting picture is not quite right!

How to draw a house?

The answer to this question was found back in the fifteenth century by the Italian architect Brunelleschi. It was he who drew attention to the fact that distant objects seemed to be visually reduced. If we compare a tree standing a meter away from the observer with the same tree at a distance of twenty meters, then the difference will be very noticeable. And the rails? Here they are under our feet, seemingly parallel to each other. But if you look into the distance, you can see that the distance between them is decreasing and decreasing. In the endIn the end, a mystical transformation takes place: parallel rails "flock" to one point! This point is called the "vanishing point": all parallel lines meet at it. Having determined the projection depth, that is, the location of the vanishing point of the lines relative to the image object, the artist builds a layout of the future drawing. An interesting fact is that the vanishing point can be located far outside the canvas on which the painting is planned. Then they draw (perhaps mentally) all the lines. They should converge exactly at this point. Thus, the back wall of the house is shorter than the front. But the image comes out more realistic than with the method of drawing based on isometric projection.