How to Draw a School Room with Students

Drawing a schoolroom presents the challenge of depicting multiple characters sitting down at their desks. This requires several steps, including determining the perspective in the room and rendering each student in a way he would realistically sit at a desk.

Things You'll Need

• Ruler
• Protractor
• Drawing pencil
• Drawing Paper

Instructions

Students Sitting at Desks

1. 

   Draw a horizontal line and make a mark somewhere on the horizontal line. That line will be your vanishing point.

2. 

   Use your ruler to draw four lines that start at the vanishing point and extend to the end of the paper in a straight line. Make sure that the distance between your left inner and outer line is the same as the distance between your right inner and outer line, in order to keep the desk proportionate. The outer lines will represent the desktop and the inner lines will represent the seat.

3. 

   Draw two additional lines that are slightly outside the two inner lines. These will represent the back of the chair.

4. 

   Draw four horizontal lines. The top line will represent the top of the back of the chair, the bottom line will represent the bottom of the chair, and the two middle lines will represent the desktop.

5. 

   Round out the edges of the desk, especially the parts that won't be covered by the student.

6. 

   Draw a rough sketch of the character at the desk. Find a picture of someone sitting if you're having difficulty figuring out how the legs are supposed to be bent.

7. 

   Add details to the desk, like the bar that connects its two front legs. Remove the cross-lines and clean up your character.

8. Create other characters sitting at their own desks. Draw a door or window to indicate that there is a wall behind the characters and to lend a sense of perspective.

Tips & Warnings

• Master perspective before trying to render the different angles of a classroom.