Plain Lab · notebook
One-Point Perspective Pad
Eighty pages carrying a horizon line and one vanishing point, rays already drawn at a 4.94 mm pitch.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 100
- Leaves
- 50
- Sheets
- 25
- Signatures
- 5 × 20pp
- Spine
- 5.72 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- perspective1
- Ruling pitch
- 4.94 mm · 14.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 35
Eighty pages carry the same guide: a horizon line and one vanishing point, with rays already drawn from that point to the edges of the page. A box, a hallway, a road, anything that recedes to a single point, can be blocked in along those rays before a single freehand line goes down.
Ten plain pages sit behind the eighty, for writing about a drawing rather than making one: what light does to the box, what to change on the next attempt, which rays were ignored and should not have been. The guide repeats at a pitch of 4.94 millimetres, thirty-five rows of it down each sketch page.
A drawing that ignores its own vanishing point still looks wrong to an untrained eye long before that eye can say why, and the ten note pages are where you write down what you finally noticed.
What is inside
- Guided sketch
- 80pp
- A horizon line and one vanishing point, rays at 4.94 mm, thirty-five rows of guide to the page.
- Notes
- 10pp
- Plain pages for writing about a drawing rather than making one.
- Reference
- 10pp
- Owner page, conversion tables computed from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two independent sources.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Hex Grid NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Two-Point Perspective PadAlso in Plain Lab
- Isometric SketchbookAlso in Plain Lab
- Storyboard NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
Questions
What is drawn on the guided pages?
A horizon line and one vanishing point, with rays running from it to the edges of the page.
How many guided pages are there?
Eighty, plus ten plain pages for notes.
What is the pitch of the rays?
4.94 mm, thirty-five rows of guide to a page.
How big is the book?
A5, one hundred pages, five sewn signatures of twenty.
Is it dated?
No, so it starts at the first sketch.
A simple shadow is one where no light at all interferes with it.
