Simple perspective in drawing is quite easy and not as difficult as what you might think, in drawing we don't really need to use accurate perspective, we are not a draughtsman or a technical drawer, we are artists so we don't need to be so accurate, in fact we don't need to use perspective at all if we don't want to, but sometimes using simple perspective does help in certain drawings. For example if we were drawing a street scene we would need a certain degree of perspective.

As above a simple street scene with both verges of the road meeting on the horizon line and where both verges meet is called the vanishing point. All diagonal lines meet at this point like the guttering of the house and the window ledges, the street light tops also converge at this point. All diagonal lines below the horizon line converge up to the vanishing point and if there was an house above the horizon line all diagonal lines would converge down to the vanishing point. So this is simple perspective and is probably the only type of perspective you will use in drawing.

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