Teach Yourself Visually Drawing

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To reinforce some of the concepts of two-point perspective, you will look at some arrangements of
basic cube-like forms, placed at different angles to each other. These cubes convey these concepts
very clearly.

The cubes below could represent a chair and a large cabinet in a room, or a large and small building in a cityscape. In this
example, the yellow cube is placed with its front plane directly facing us; this illustrates one-point perspective. As a result, it
has a single vanishing point on the horizon line, and your eye level is directly above it. The green cube is turned on an angle,
with each of its sides receding at different angles toward their respective vanishing points. The vanishing points for both
cubes fall on the same eye level and horizon line.


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