Tools / Grids

1-Point Perspective Grid Generator

One vanishing point for rooms, roads and corridors. Move the horizon, choose a lens, export a transparent layer.

drag up/down to move the horizon · arrow keys
Camera
Frame
drop or paste a photo to match its perspective
Layers
Readout
Lens 31 mm (35 mm equiv.)Field of view 60° VP1 · VP2
exports use the light colour set on a transparent background

How to use this grid

One-point perspective is for scenes you look straight into: a corridor, a room seen from the doorway, a road running to the horizon, a row of shelves. All the lines that run away from you meet at one vanishing point in the centre of the picture; everything else stays horizontal or vertical.

Drag up or down to set the horizon. A horizon near the middle is a standing viewer; low means you are looking along the ground; high means you are up a ladder looking down. The lens changes how fast the grid recedes: a 24 mm corridor feels long and dramatic, a 50 mm one feels calm.

Reading the grid

Red lines run to the vanishing point. Green lines are the cross-lines that stay horizontal, spaced one metre apart in depth, and you can see them bunch up as they recede: that spacing is what makes a drawn floor feel like it lies flat. The ochre verticals stay vertical. The reference cube is one metre on each side.

Getting the grid into your app

Procreate — Copy to clipboard, then Actions → Add → Paste; set the layer to 30–40% opacity and lock it. Procreate's own Drawing Guide can only do a fixed 1-point grid without lens control, so most people prefer to import one.

Clip Studio Paint, Photoshop, Affinity, Krita — Download PNG and place it as a layer, or SVG for vector lines.

Paper — Download PNG 4× and print. Put it under tracing paper or a light pad.

Not sure whether your scene is one-point or two-point? Read 1-point vs 2-point vs 3-point.

Questions

Why is the vanishing point always in the centre?

In one-point perspective the camera looks straight down one axis of the scene, so the vanishing point sits on the line of sight, at the centre of the picture. Shifting the horizon up or down (a lens shift) moves it vertically without tilting the view.

Can I move the vanishing point sideways?

Sideways offset means the camera is no longer square to the scene, which turns it into two-point perspective. Use the 2-point grid with a small rotation for a slightly off-centre view.

What is the grid spacing?

One metre by default, with heavier lines every five metres. Change it with the density slider.