Closets can be drawn with just a few well-placed lines.
Drawing a closet is a skill that is needed for dress-up game designers, interior designers and even architects. Sketching a closet is also a good skill to learn for artists and those who want to learn to draw. Your basic closet is a cube, a fundamental form for building, modeling and drawing all objects. The process for drawing a closet requires that you layout the 3D closet box (the cube) and then fill in the closet with doors, trim, shading, lighting and color. The more of these details you add to your 3D closet box, the more realistic your closet will look.
Instructions
Laying out the 3D Closet Box
1. Draw a horizontal construction line through the center of your paper. Mark the center of this line with a pencil mark. Label the center "center."
2. Draw a line from the upper left corner of your paper to the "center." Label this line "ULC." Draw a line from the upper right corner of your paper to the "center." Label this line "URC." Draw a line from the lower left corner of your paper to the "center." Label this line "LLC." Draw a line from the lower right corner of your paper to the "center." Label this line "LRC."
3. Draw a vertical line that starts halfway between the "center" and the left edge of the paper that begins on the "ULC" line and ends on the "LLC" line.
4. Draw a vertical line that starts halfway between the "center" and the right edge of the paper that begins on the "URC" line and ends on the "LRC" line.
5. Draw a horizontal line that starts halfway between the "center" and the top edge of the paper that begins on the "ULC" line and ends on the "URC" line.
6. Draw a horizontal line that starts halfway between the "center" and the bottom edge of the paper that begins on the "LLC" line and ends on the "LRC" line.
7. Draw an 1/8-inch-thick line on each edge of the paper as the border of the front of the closet.
8. Observe that the drawing consists of two rectangles: a larger rectangle with a border on the edges of the paper and a smaller rectangle that extends half the width and half the height of the paper. Label the smaller rectangle "back of closet." Label the larger rectangle "front of closet."
9. Erase the construction lines (the two diagonals) that are inside the back of the closet (the small rectangle). Label the four-sided polygon that borders the left edge of the paper as "left wall of closet." Label the four-sided polygon that borders the right edge of the paper as "right wall of closet." Label the four-sided polygon that borders the top edge of the paper as "top of closet." Label the four-sided polygon that borders the bottom edge of the paper as "bottom of closet."
Adding Closet Details
10. Draw a vertical line from the top edge of the paper through the "center" to the bottom edge of the paper for the edge of the "halfway closed" closet sliding door. Label the rectangle that is formed with this vertical center line and the left border edge as the "closet sliding door." Darken this edge with a 1/8-inch-thick line to give the closet door dimension.
11. Shade the "right wall of the closet," the right side of the "bottom of the closet" and the right side of the "top of the closet" with a light shade of gray using a 2B pencil. Shade the right side of the "back of the closet" with a darker shade of gray using a 4B pencil.
12. Draw a small circle directly to the left of the "center point" and the "closet door edge" for the closet's doorknob.
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