How to draw roads, buildings, cars, and people with single vanishing point perspective

My simple to understand perspective drawing technique for producing a street scene which includes buildings, cars, people, and roads in preparation for doing a watercolor painting. The system works for any medium.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 Linear vs atmospheric perspective
00:51 Linear perspective
01:07 Eye level
01:35 Eye level vs horizon
02:23 Vanishing points
03:06 Approximate measurements
03:49 Keep buildings vertical
04:02 My drawing steps
05:54 Step one Eye Level
06:04 Step 2 Vanishing Point
06:48 Step 3 Figures
10:09 Step 4 Car placement
12:13 Step 5 Buildings
15:28 Car details
23:20 Final details
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[@MrPeterjba]

As usual, concise, careful, wonderful teaching Joe!! Always nice to see Bridge rd Richmond (worked at Epworth 26years), bravo!

[@JoeCartwright]

Thanks again! Glad it brought back some nice memories.

[@rosannako4694]

I haven't tried any cityscape before, but after watching your video, I'm inspired to try one. Thank you for sharing such an informative and well-explained tutorial which gives me more understanding and confidence in painting cityscape.

[@JoeCartwright]

Have fun!

[@tokki.93]

literally last night struggling a bit with perspective and hoping for a video like this. thank you SO much! you are so thorough in your explanations. i never thought about the figures' heads relative to eye level. can't wait to put my brush back to my paper later today!

[@JoeCartwright]

Glad it was helpful!

[@SherryVardabasso]

I’ve watched a lot of perspective videos , and I have to say, this is one of the best explanations I’ve seen. So many practical, useful tips. Thank you for sharing your experience! Can’t wait to try it out!

[@JoeCartwright]

Wow, thank you!

[@noelnicholls3622]

What a wonderful tutorial Joe. So much helpful info. One to be added to my painting file. Thankyou.

[@JoeCartwright]

Glad it was helpful!

[@yvonnegeelen6571]

Really help-full perspective gets me every time I never seem to get it right I am going to try this and how to draw cars is great info Thankyou for sharing your talent

[@JoeCartwright]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ruthward9626]

This is such an informative & helpful tutorial, Joe. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us.

[@JoeCartwright]

Glad it was helpful Rtuh! Thank you for the feedback.

[@anasel-mahdi7908]

the best well explained tutorial about perspective.Thanks for great effort.

[@JoeCartwright]

You're very welcome! Thank you for the feedback.

[@sukradi]

This is so fascinating!! Thank you for the detailed description.

[@JoeCartwright]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kindredspiritm]

Thank you for making these wonderful videos.

[@JoeCartwright]

You are very welcome.

[@craftico-mi2hq]

Thankyou so much sir. You are the best❤

[@JoeCartwright]

Most welcome

[@lilianrokushima2272]

It’s great tutorial to newer of watercolor. Perspective, figure s and car…are really helpful. Thanks, Joe.

[@JoeCartwright]

You're very welcome!

[@KyungShotwell]

You are amazing! Thank you so so much!!

[@JoeCartwright]

Glad it helped!

[@grantellis2840]

Thank you once again Joe, fantastic tutorial, will have to watch it a couple of times to absorb all the information, a very, very informative lesson and well presented, thanks again 😊😊

[@JoeCartwright]

Glad it was helpful Grant!

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

Thanx ❤

[@JoeCartwright]

You are welcome.

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

Toy car was very useful

[@JoeCartwright]

Glad you enjoyed it.