Basic Drawing Made Amazingly Easy (Made Amazingly Easy Series)

You can add depth and expanse to a still life by using the outdoors as
a backdrop. A view through the window opens up the scene. The
picture is drawn in one-point perspective, as indicated by the X on the
diagram. Note how the vanishing lines of the table and the painting
converge at the center of the picture. This center spot is also where
you could draw the horizon line (a horizontal guideline that goes
across the page from left to right). But with so few objects using
vanishing lines, the perspective middle is all we really need to
indicate. Why clutter up the drawing with a lot of guidelines if you
don’t have to?
You might be wondering why the horizon line is at the X and not
where the sky meets the hill. That’s because the hill is elevated and,
therefore, above the horizon. Additionally, you can see that a corner
of the house faces toward you. As mentioned earlier, this means it’s
drawn in two-point perspective. Its vanishing lines travel downward,
toward the level of the “X.”