Perspective Grid Paper
A horizon line with rays converging on one or two vanishing points: the construction lines, already drawn.
A horizon line with rays converging on one or two vanishing points: the construction lines, already drawn.
Choose Perspective Grid Paper from the list. It opens with the usual size already set.
Pick the paper size, the grid and the orientation. Customize holds colours, margins and more.
Download the ready PDF, or print straight from the page at 100% scale.
One point perspective has a single vanishing point on the horizon. Everything facing you stays flat and rectangular, and only the lines going away from you converge. It is the view down a corridor, a street, a railway line.
Two point perspective puts a vanishing point at each side, so you see two faces of an object at once and nothing stays flat. It is the view of a building from its corner, and the more natural-looking of the two for most subjects.
The horizon is eye level, and moving it changes the whole character of the drawing before you have drawn anything.
Every sheet here is free, adjustable and prints at exact scale.
At the eye level of the viewer. Around 45% down the page reads as standing height; lower makes the subject loom, higher looks down on it.
Because equal distances in the world compress as they recede. The spacing tightens towards the horizon to approximate that, so a receding floor or road looks right.
Not directly — the third vanishing point sits far off the page, which is exactly why it is hard to draw. Use two point with a very high or low horizon for most of the effect.
