Classroom Sketchbook Demo: Art Room Panorama!🎨

SKETCHBOOKS | PERSPECTIVE

Here’s a panoramic sketch of a bustling classroom — Plus my guidelines for seeing (& tracing) the 3D space:

(Click through for full notes @ the Patreon)

To draw this WIDE view, I had to use 4 pages in my pocket sketchbook. Here they are, set side by side:

Since the classroom looks so WIDE (from this angle), the dominant dimension will be WIDTH. Here are my loose guidelines, around 3 vanishing points:

Any edges running along this dimension (walls, tables, floor, &c.) will follow these guidelines:

Here are my guidelines for DEPTH, tracing distance INTO the center vanishing point:

Of course this scene also has HEIGHT — These guidelines curve gently like so:

All together, my 3D “grid” of guidelines looks like this:

That grid helps me trace the entire scene with a consistent sense of immersive 3D space…:

Now that you’ve seen the grid, maybe you can see some of my guidelines under the original sketch? (I used a yellow marker because it won’t show up when I scan the final artwork.)

And that’s how I see (& sketch) a classroom all around me!

Thanks to Ms. G’s artroom for hosting this exploration of 3D art-space.