Printable Perspective Grid (Free PDF)
A landscape drawing grid with the horizon and vanishing points already set, in one-point or two-point.
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Setting up perspective by hand eats the first twenty minutes of a drawing. This sheet has it done: a horizon line across the page, the vanishing points marked and labelled, and the construction lines already drawn so you can go straight to the subject. The page is landscape, which is the shape most interiors, streets and still lifes want, and the horizon sits a little above centre at 42% of the drawing area — an eye level that suits a standing viewer.
The one-point version puts a single vanishing point in the middle of the sheet with sixty rays running out of it, plus horizontal lines that close up as they approach the horizon to give you a receding floor and ceiling. It is the grid for corridors, train tracks, a room seen square on. The two-point version drops the horizontals and places a vanishing point near each edge, with both fans of lines crossing the page, which is what you want for a building seen on the corner or a box in three-quarter view.
Both versions also carry faint vertical lines every half inch, because verticals stay vertical in one- and two-point perspective and they help you keep edges plumb. The construction lines print light grey-blue so your own pencil or ink reads first, and the horizon and vanishing points print darker so you can always find them. Nothing is fillable: this is a sheet to draw on, by hand or with a stylus over the PDF.
