Seated eye level

What to look at

The horizon crosses the figures at chest height: they are taller than the viewer's eye.

The table top (0.75 m) is just below eye level, so it shows as a thin sliver.

Cafe scenes, conversations and interiors drawn from a chair all sit on this horizon.

What this scene is for

The scene for cafés, dinner tables, interviews and any interior drawn from a chair: camera at 1.15 m, standing figures, a table and a stool. Most interior illustrations are drawn from a standing height by habit even when the viewer is meant to be sitting down; this is the corrective.

The mistake it settles

Keeping a 1.6 m horizon for a seated viewpoint. Drop the camera to 1.15 m and the horizon crosses standing figures at the chest, the table top becomes a sliver rather than a surface, and the room feels inhabited instead of surveyed.

The camera

Measured off this render

Taken from the same camera model the tool draws with, on the 1340 × 754 PNG above.

Draw it from these numbers

1. Rule the horizon across the sheet at 56% of the picture height — 422 px down on this 754 px render. Every other line in the scene is measured from it.
2. Two vanishing points on that line: 63 px from the left edge, and 2,124 px beyond the right edge — far enough out that you should match the grid angles instead of chasing it.
3. Set the scale from the 1.75 m figure at 4.2 m: 570 px tall, with 66% of it below the horizon. That share is the camera height divided by the object's height (1.15 ÷ 1.75 m), and it is the same for every object of that height anywhere in the picture.

Open the reference in the tool to move the camera, change the lens, or add your own objects at real sizes; the share link keeps your version. Draw over the PNG at 30–50% opacity in any app with layers.