Age Range: 7+

Time to Complete: 25 minutes

Supplies Needed

• Pencil

• Ruler or straight edge

• Eraser

1. Lay out your paper, pencil and eraser. Use your pencil to draw a horizontal line in the middle of your paper. This line is your horizon.

2. Mark two points on your horizon near the edge of the page. These are your vanishing points.

3. Draw a vertical line at or near the center of the page.

4. Using your straight edge to connect the vanishing points to the top and bottom of the vertical line. This will create a diamond shape. Draw these lines lightly as they will be erased; these lines are acting as your guide.

5. Draw vertical lines on either side of the center line, inside of the diamond shape. This will create a shape in two point perspective. To make your shape more cube-like, try to make your new vertical lines an equal distance apart.

This is the foundation to an opaque (or solid) cube.

6. Still using your straight edge to guide you, draw lines from the corners on the right edge of your cube to the opposite vanishing point on the left (as seen in red). Repeat with the opposite side, drawing lines from the left top and bottom corner of the cube to the vanishing point on the right of the page (seen in blue).

7. Draw a vertical line connecting the two cross sections. Erase Darken the lines which make up the cube by pressing a bit harder on your pencil. Erase all of the lines outside of the cube leading to the vanishing points.