Plain Lab · notebook
Two-Point Perspective Pad
A ground grid converging on two vanishing points, thirty-five rows to the page 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
- perspective2
- Ruling pitch
- 4.94 mm · 14.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 35
Two points on a horizon line decide where every line in the drawing is allowed to go. Drawn freehand, the lines that are supposed to meet at one of those points rarely do. A ground grid fixes both points first and rules every line toward one of them.
That grid runs 4.94 mm to a row, thirty-five of them from top to bottom, tight enough to block in a small object before a single freehand line goes over it. Ten plain pages sit behind the eighty gridded ones, for the measurements and notes a converging line cannot carry.
The two points only fix where a line is allowed to go. They do not decide what gets drawn between them, and a badly judged object still looks exactly as badly judged as it would on blank paper.
What is inside
- Sketch pages
- 80pp
- Ground grid converging on two vanishing points, at a 4.94 mm pitch, thirty-five rows to the page.
- Notes
- 10pp
- Plain pages for measurements a converging line cannot carry.
- Reference and furniture
- 10pp
- Conversion tables, emergency numbers, and the pen test leaf that closes the block.
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
- One-Point Perspective PadAlso in Plain Lab
- Storyboard NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Hex Grid NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Semi-Log NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
Questions
How does the grid work?
Every line rules toward one of two vanishing points on a horizon line, rather than being drawn freehand toward a guessed point.
How fine is the grid?
4.94 mm, thirty-five rows down the page.
Are there plain pages too?
Yes, ten, for notes and measurements.
Is it dated?
No.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 100 pages, 5.72 mm across the spine.
A shadow is always affected by the colour of the surface on which it is cast.
