A horizon line is commonly a imagined guide line that represents the horizon in the drawing.

In it's simplest form it is simply a line that roughly represents the vertical position of the observer with respect to objects in the scene. It's main property is that all parallell lines converge at one unique point on the horizon line. Setting the horizon line low in the image will yield a birds perspective of the scene, while a high line make a frog perspective.

More complex drawings that contain objects that are not parallell to the imagined ground plane will have several horizon lines. For example, consider a simple drawing of a block-formed house with a tilted roof. The horizon line of the house body would normally be the same as the one for the ground plane it is resting on. The edges of the roof would have a different horizon line, above the one associated with the walls and the ground plane. One interesting and valuable feature is that the edges of the roof will converge at a point on it's horizon line that is straight above the corresponding agreggation point for the lines of the body of the house, scince the lines are only rotated with respect to each other along one axis. If the roof has several sections with different angles, their perspective points will all be at the intersection of their corresponding horizon lines and a vertical line through the aggregation point for the house wall. This is true also for a more complicated three-point perspective, with the vertical line replaced for one that is converging at the third pers