How to Draw a Cube on an Isometric Grid
Introduction to Isometric
Drawing
● What is an isometric grid?
● Why do we use isometric grids for
drawing?
● Today, we'll learn how to draw a simple
cube on this special grid
Materials Needed
● Isometric dot paper
● Pencil
● Eraser (just in case!)
● Can you think of any other tools that might
be helpful?
Step 1: Starting Your Cube
● Select a dot on your grid as your starting point
● Draw a diagonal line connecting 3 dots
● Repeat this on the other side, forming a "V" shape
● How many dots did you count for each line?
Step 2: Adding Vertical
Lines
● From each end of your "V", draw a vertical
line down
● Skip one dot, then count down three dots
● Why do you think we skip a dot before
drawing down?
Step 3: Completing the
Base
● Connect the bottom points of your vertical
lines
● This forms the base of your cube
● What shape does the base look like?
Step 4: Drawing the Back Edge
● From the top point of your "V", draw a vertical line down
● Make it the same length as the other vertical lines
● How does this line relate to the others you've drawn?
Step 5: Finishing Your
Cube
● Connect the end of your back edge to the
other corners
● Your cube is now complete!
● Can you count how many faces of the cube
you can see?
Practice Time!
● Try drawing your own cube on isometric
paper
● Experiment with different sizes
● What happens if you start with a longer or
shorter diagonal line?
Challenge: Stacked Cubes
● Can you draw two cubes, one on top of the other?
● Try drawing cubes side by side
● What other 3D shapes can you create using this method?
Wrap-Up and Applications
● Isometric drawing is used in architecture, engineering, and
game design
● Practice makes perfect - keep drawing!
● How might you use isometric drawing in your own projects?
4.0 Isometric Drawing
4.1 What is Isometric drawing
An isometric drawing is a drawing of a three-dimensional shape on
a two-dimensional surface along a vertical line with at least two
identified points. All the horizontal lines of the image are created
from the predetermined vertical line at 30-degree angles. Isometric
drawing makes two-dimensional figures to appear
in three dimensional.
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4.2 Rules of Isometric Drawing
There are three main rules to isometric drawing.
(i) horizontal. edges are drawn at 30 degrees.
(ii) vertical. edges are drawn as vertical lines.
(iii) parallel. Parallel lines never meet, no matter how far they are
extended. Edges appear as parallel lines.
4.3 Types of Isometric drawing
There are two common techniques generally used for isometric
drawings. These are the box and the centerline layout techniques,
but the box technique is the most common construction technique.
The box technique is also known as the coordinate technique.
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4.4 Isometric Sketch Example
An example to draw the isometric sketching is given below.
Follow the steps given to draw an isometric sketch of an
8 × 3 × 3 cuboid. The same steps can be used to draw an
isometric sketch of a cube also.
•Step 1
To draw an isometric sketch of a cuboid with
dimension 8 × 3 × 3, take an isometric dot paper as shown below:
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• Step 2
To draw the front face, join 8 dots to form the length of the
cuboid and 3 adjacent dots to form its breadth as shown:
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• Step 3
From the corners of the rectangle drawn above,
draw 4 parallel line segments as shown below:
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• Step 4
Join the corners of the image together as shown below:
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• Step 5
According to the convention redraw the hidden edges as
dotted lines as shown:
This isometric sketch representing a cuboid of dimension
8 × 3 ×3. Thus, using an isometric dot sheet, we can draw three-
dimensional shapes of exact measurements or dimensions
without any ambiguity.
Thus, isometric sketches of different shapes can be drawn easily.
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Let us try to draw some isometric drawings using freehand
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4. 5 Practice Problems
Draw at least two of the
given isometric drawings
using instruments.
