1-Point Perspective Grid Generator
One vanishing point for rooms, roads and corridors. Move the horizon, choose a lens, export a transparent layer.
That grid took you a minute. Forty-six are already drawn.
Every lens from 24 to 85 mm and every camera height, as true vector sheets for A4, A3, Letter and Tabloid — print one and start drawing. The same 46 grids come as transparent layers for Procreate, Photoshop, Clip Studio and Krita. 252 finished scenes to draw straight over, each one carrying the camera that made it. And thirty exercises that teach the whole thing, each with its construction worked on the next page. Every one has a free starter, so you can try the real files first.
Free starters: seven sheets, twenty scenes, five exercises. The three grid-and-reference packs together are $24, seven less than the parts. The printable templates and the reference library stay free whatever you do — a pack sold is what keeps them that way.
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.
It is also the wrong grid for most scenes, which is worth saying early: one-point only works while one face of the subject is genuinely square to you. The moment you stand slightly off to one side, that face starts to converge too and the drawing needs two points. If your reference photo was taken from anywhere but dead centre, start there instead.
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, or open the perspective grid generator, which has all the grids behind one switch.
For an interior with a real ceiling height and furniture in metres, use the room perspective generator, which is this grid with a room built on it.
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.