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This was just a study in the use of a Single Vanishing Point. As always, depth is very strong with that style.

That gleaming star on the big pyramid is the vanishing point for the picture, the very heart of it. This'll make it easier to see which lines originate from it, and which don't.

The two large arms under the main pyramid show that lines in a Single Vanishing Point picture do not have to come from the vanishing point, nor do they HAVE to be horizontal or vertical.

By the way, the corner pyramids are actually all the same size. I could not have done that just one year ago, short of an educated guess. That is what interaction can do for one's style: it helps increase it.

This is a quick explanation as to how to do it:

First, do what you already know. You know that the tips of the front and back pyramid on either side will touch the same line from the VP.

You know that the inside sides of the pyramids will be on the same line from the VP.

You know that the inside sides of the top part of the back and front pyramids are on the same line from the VP. It is easy to do the front then: just draw a horizontal line.

Once you go through what you actually already know- and it's more than you might think!- you'll realize that you know everything about the back pyramids except one thing- where does the front part, the horizontal line, go? Without that you cannot draw it.

Here's how:

In the corners, I drew faint pencil cubes, as shown earlier in this part of the tutorial. By drawing "X's" from the corners of the top and bottom sides, and connecting the centers with a vertical line, it was simply a matter of drawing lines from the corners of the bottom square to the tip of that vertical line. Then, erase the unwanted lines (but leave a dot so you know where the back side of the pyramid was). Hence...a pyramid, based on a cube!

Since the front and back sides of the pyramid on, say, the left must be on the same horizontal lines as the one on the right, and so must their tips, it is easy to draw the other once you have the first.

Now- here's the trick for finding out where the horizontal line for the fronts of the two back pyramids comes in:

Draw a horizontal line where the backs of the bases of the front pyramids were.

Draw a big "X" connecting the corners of the platform the pyramids are on. See where it touches the horizontal line? Mark those two points.

From the VP draw lines through those two points.

See where those two new lines cross the back of the big X?

That is where you get your new horizontal line- the one that shows where the fronts of the two back pyramids go.

And so you now have the one missing piece of the puzzle.

And now we enter the world of TWO Vanishing Points!

Description
This was just a study in the use of a Single Vanishing Point. As always, depth is very strong with that style.

That gleaming star on the big pyramid is the vanishing point for the picture, the very heart of it. This'll make it easier to see which lines originate from it, and which don't.

The two large arms under the main pyramid show that lines in a Single Vanishing Point picture do not have to come from the vanishing point, nor do they HAVE to be horizontal or vertical.

By the way, the corner pyramids are actually all the same size. I could not have done that just one year ago, short of an educated guess. That is what interaction can do for one's style: it helps increase it.

This is a quick explanation as to how to do it:

First, do what you already know. You know that the tips of the front and back pyramid on either side will touch the same line from the VP.

You know that the inside sides of the pyramids will be on the same line from the VP.

You know that the inside sides of the top part of the back and front pyramids are on the same line from the VP. It is easy to do the front then: just draw a horizontal line.

Once you go through what you actually already know- and it's more than you might think!- you'll realize that you know everything about the back pyramids except one thing- where does the front part, the horizontal line, go? Without that you cannot draw it.

Here's how:

In the corners, I drew faint pencil cubes, as shown earlier in this part of the tutorial. By drawing "X's" from the corners of the top and bottom sides, and connecting the centers with a vertical line, it was simply a matter of drawing lines from the corners of the bottom square to the tip of that vertical line. Then, erase the unwanted lines (but leave a dot so you know where the back side of the pyramid was). Hence...a pyramid, based on a cube!

Since the front and back sides of the pyramid on, say, the left must be on the same horizontal lines as the one on the right, and so must their tips, it is easy to draw the other once you have the first.

Now- here's the trick for finding out where the horizontal line for the fronts of the two back pyramids comes in:

Draw a horizontal line where the backs of the bases of the front pyramids were.

Draw a big "X" connecting the corners of the platform the pyramids are on. See where it touches the horizontal line? Mark those two points.

From the VP draw lines through those two points.

See where those two new lines cross the back of the big X?

That is where you get your new horizontal line- the one that shows where the fronts of the two back pyramids go.

And so you now have the one missing piece of the puzzle.

And now we enter the world of TWO Vanishing Points!