Two-point perspective grid, A4

A horizon line with rays converging on two vanishing points, on A4, with the horizon height adjustable.

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When two points is the right choice

One-point perspective suits a view straight down a corridor or street, where one face of everything is parallel to the picture plane. Two-point suits the far more common case of looking at a building or a room from an angle, where you see two faces receding and verticals stay vertical. Three-point adds convergence in the verticals too, which you want for a tall building seen from street level or a view looking down.

Move the horizon before you draw anything

The horizon line is the viewer eye level, and where you put it decides what the drawing feels like. Low on the page and the subject towers over the viewer. High and the viewer looks down on it. Level with the middle of the subject and the result reads as neutral and slightly flat. This is the single most consequential decision on the sheet and the one people most often leave at the default.

Vanishing points usually belong off the page

Bringing both vanishing points onto an A4 sheet forces a very wide angle of view, and the result looks distorted in the way that cheap architectural illustration does. Real scenes usually want the points well outside the paper. This grid places them off-page and gives you the rays, which is the practical reason to print a grid rather than tape two pins to a drawing board. If you want the more extreme look deliberately, that is a choice rather than an accident.

Printing it accurately

This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100%, not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.