STEP ELEVEN

INTERIORS

PLACING OF FURNITURE

INTERIORS

Here we have an open box.

Lay the box on its side and sketch it, looking directly into the open end.

If it were large enough the inside of the box could be the interior of a room.

Sketch a door in the far end. If you were standing in this room your eye-level would be about the height of the mark on the door.

Draw the end of the box as if it were a room into which you are looking. You are standing at the opposite end and your eye-level is the same height as the mark on the door.

The vanishing point would be at the center of the wall and on the eye-level, assuming that you are standing at the center of the opposite wall.

The inside of the box can now be changed to the interior of a room by drawing the walls, floor, ceiling, and windows with lines that pass through this vanishing point.

Now turn the box so that it is necessary to use both vanishing points.

Placing the furniture in the room is as simple as placing bricks around.

The open box can be transformed into an interior of a room. The bricks are transformed into furniture.

People can be placed about the room by using the same method that we used when we placed the figures on the street beside the building.

We have created a room by the use of bricks and a box. It is surprising how many of our drawings can be built around these simple objects. When the drawing is irregular in shape like a grand piano we can place it correctly into the perspective of a room by first drawing it as a large box. With the lines of the box as the basis of our drawing we can then bring out the lines of the piano correctly placed.

Pieces of furniture can be placed facing any direction provided their vanishing points are all on the same eye-level as that used in sketching the room.

If the vanishing points of the furniture are not the same as those of the room it means that the furniture has been placed cornerwise, not square with the room.

REMEMBER

An interior of a room may be considered as the inside of a box. When we stand in the center of a room and look at the center of a wall we have before us the subject for a one-point perspective drawing.

Pieces of furniture can be considered as bricks placed around the inside of a box.

The box and the bricks within it have their vanishing points on the same eye-level line regardless of the direction in which the bricks may lie.

PROBLEMS

Draw a brick. Change it into a table. A bookcase. A day bed.

Place books haphazard upon the table. Now sketch them in these positions. Where will all their vanishing points lie?

Sketch the inside of a room as if it were a box placed at a height where your eye-level is the same as that of a miniature person within the room.

Place bricks within a box. After you have sketched this grouping change the bricks into pieces of furniture.