The Difference Between 1 Point Perspective and 2 Point Perspective

What is the difference between 1 point perspective and 2 point perspective? Can you have both in the same drawing? How can you tell which one to use? These questions will all be answered in this short informational lesson. I will also answer it here.

1 Point Perspective means something is facing us, and the horizontal lines on the side, top or bottom appear to converge at one point. There is one vanishing point.

2 Point Perspective means we are looking at the side or corner of something, it is not facing us. The horizontal lines on one side appear to converge at one point and the horozontal lines on the opposite side appear to converge at one point. There are 2 vanishing points.

Good luck! 🍀 I hope this was helpful

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[kuurtnelson]

Thank you for explaining this in an easy understandable way, I’m taking a class where it was explained oddly and i was going bananas.

[sera]

Wow!i always wondered what's the difference when you post drawing perspective!
good information!😊

[serenepenguin]

Amazing and clear instructions. I really love your way of explanation. Thank you so much

[apratimsanyal]

This video is excellent!! Seeing the boxes really helped!!!

[Clankeh]

Amazing! The tip about going around your house, and deciding if what you're looking at is a 1 or 2 point perspective really helps. It's all I can see now 👀

[permafrost]

You've made it so simply understandable. Thanks a million 😋😇

[yikan]

Here’s how I look at perspective. Straight lines lead our eyes. Our eye wants to derez the farther away information by making it smaller and blurrier. So every line that leads away that we can see has a shared vanishing point. And every horizontal line has its own personal vanishing point. So when we are staring straight at a skyscraper, it still uses 2pt perspective but when we move our eye upwards, the straight lines begin to share a vanishing point because our eye wants to devalue the far away information. This video is prolly the best explanation of two point perspective in YouTube. I just had to watch this to reconcile how best to use this.

[darthvadeth]

I have a question:
How do you know if a drawing should be done in 1 point or 2 point perspectives? If I'm planning to draw a person, for example, it seems completely arbitrary whether I can use 1 point or 2 points perspective. So why would I choose one over the other?

[AzzaYCF]

Good video, thank you! Clear and concise 🙂

[HaPham-jmbt]

Character In the video It's great, I like it a lot $$

[K-popmuseum]

😀🌺Your video is so beautiful. 🎵🎶영상 잘봤습니다, 😀역시 짱입니다~~❤❤

[jayzone]

nice video!!! its very helpful. it helps me a lot. nice voice as well 💕💕💕

[mikeearls]

As a non artist this is really interesting and something I never knew about. I have a question - so depending on where you draw your 2 vanishing points will determine where your perspective is? So can you make drawings of a house for example where you can barely see the front (perspective all the way on the left)....all the way around till you are all the way on the other side?

[____Ann____]

If I draw different boxes in one drawing, some on them on their side, others with their front to me, I will have a combination of one point and two point perspective. I need to draw one horizon lines with 3 vanishing points, correct?

[warker]

hmm i was confused about that, how if the box get too far from the center of the scene/our center of view?
i mean its in the side corner of our view, so the front of it will still seen as rectangle right? as we seen the top of it
i was so confused n ended up drawing it as 2 points box when its in the side corner of our view
n also, if the box is in the center of the horizon line, we'll only see the front of it, but if we move like to the left, the box now will show its other side which is the side of the box, n the front will again still seen as rectangle right?
so i also confused about this n ended up drawing it as 2 points box

so in conclusion, in the 1 point, we'll always see the front face as rectangle no matter where it is in our scene, like in bottom or top or center of the horizon line

[antruong]

Some segments in the video are stamped not adjacent to each other

[Jefiyan]

In conclusion, if the front/back side of the object is parallel to the rotation of the eye/camera then use the 1 point rule, conversely if the front/back side of the object is not parallel to the rotation of the eye -