Draw boxes (correctly) to improve your art
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2024
- Every line on the box must converge to a vanishing point
Learning how to draw boxes will help with anatomy and bodies.
0:00 These boxes are wrong
1:40 Vanishing points
5:41 Every drawing is composed of boxes
7:54 Constructing bodies
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Edit by @ScribClips - ตลก
Genuinely can't believe the number of times I've seen advice to draw boxes but no one ever mentioned they should be in perspective not perfectly parallel 😩
Perspective is most important ❤
Drew a flying dove a year ago and the one drawn inside a box came out better??? Really got my brain thinking 3D... But this put words to it in simple language. Magical!
Yeah😭
did you not look at a box first?
Learnt something new, and I feel soo dumb for not understanding this before...
Once she mentioned the no parallel, I instantly knew why I've fuckup so badly with boxes and perspective. All those perspective videos on how to rotate boxes/ everything just started clicking. Now we just need that head construction video because all these videos on the Andrew Loomis method I didn't understand it until I started learning about drawing boxes. But not now. I have this video Definitely going to grind.
Any material do you recommend?
@@UnTalCoto Personally get a bunch of cheap mechanical pencils, and a nice sketchbook spiral bound. You don’t need nothing expensive I personally draw on copy paper. Digitally I draw on the iPad.
I’m a bit confused. This video tells me to draw the cube with intersecting lines, but other advice online is saying to draw the lines parallel. Is it just dependent on the perspective?
@@foppypoof5195 It does depend on the perspective. When you’re drawing one point perspective only four sets of lines are intercepting same for two point perspective but with two-point perspective, you have eight lines that are intersecting. The only time all your lines are intersecting is when you’re drawing three-point perspective. Because now you have three vanishing points.
@@foppypoof5195 and I’m not saying that all eight lines are going to one point. Each sets of four are going to their own vanishing point for two point perspective you only have two points, so four goes to one point and the other four goes to another point same for three-point perspective.
You explained it in a lot funner way and not the sucking-the-fun-out-of-drawing way that drawabox does. All in 8 minutes too! Thank you
After more than 20 years, I can FINALLY understand why my boxes never look good no matter how much I tried to make them right. I got so good at drawing straight lines and yet they never felt like a box. Now I understand, I was not considering perspective.
Thanks Pikat, you will probably think this is an exaggeration but I am certain that if this video was a little bit older, I probably would be 400x times better than I am currently.
I’m feeling like a little kid that just got a new toy, I’ve been filling pages with boxes and I am having a lot of fun.
Every time I do a college presentation I always pratice my presentation like everyone who will listen to me is complete oblivious to the subject, not that I underestimate their knowledge, never, my friends are really smart, I just want to make sure everyone gets out there fully understanding what I have to say to make it both enjoyable and fun. It always works, I never got less than the best grade possible in presentations, I really enjoy doing them and I put a lot of love in it.
Your video felt like this to me. I had fun while learning something I am completely stupid about, art. I fully understood what I needed to do and didn’t feel boring to watch it because it sounded so fun and I felt this weird of feeling of “I GOTTA DRAW A LOT OF BOXES”, something I dont think I’ll ever feel again. Thanks for that!!
I don’t watch a lot of TH-cam nowadays so I can’t promise I’ll always leave a like but be sure that every time I draw a Box and a Cilinder, figures in general, I’ll remember you.
Best of luck with your channel 📦📦📦
I love this comment. It reads like a life changing experience but shit is about boxes. The absolute art experience.
I hope in the 2 months since you wrote this you've drawn countless perspective boxes, each better than the precious one.
@@buira9482 I am really slow at learning art, it’s much more a fun hobby than anything else to me as I am not aiming to be pretty good or a pro artist one day. Despite the slowness, it is getting somewhere, I am drawing a lot of boxes, filling pages as I try to learn and get better and I feel like I am doing much better as time passes.
One day when I feel that I finally got really good at it I will post a link with results, may take a year or years, who knows, but it will happen! Until then, see you there!!
Wait this video might've changed my life. I know construction is one of the fundamentals of art but (maybe it's because I can't imagine things in 3D) I've always had such a hard time with it and kind of put it to the side. Which makes drawing bodied so much more difficult. But you actually explained it so well I might finally be able start learning construction!!
go draw boxes!!
Haha changed my life... Mood when you learn something new 😊
Yeah also recommend shading them by crosshatching (references are always helpful for that). That will help understand shadow and light better. Also recommend for that to draw spheres
the ability to visualise in 3d comes with practice and studies, so yeah go draw some boxes BUT with intention!
Is that a phobia or something that u can’t imagine in 3d?
6:50 I've never been in more reverence and awe of a ventilation duct. Thank you, super helpful!
You can actually use isometric when the perspective isn't powerful because the difference with vanishing point perspective won't be that noticeable... So basically all you gotta keep in mind is how strong the perspective is. If it's just a very basic 3 point perspective then you can go for isometric, nobody will ever notice loll...
And plus, Isometric is a style on its own. A lot of games specially pixel art games use this style for cozy stuff.. A bit like animal crossing when you enter a villager's house. So don't just forbid yourself from using parallel lines cubes, but just understand when and how to use them :)
I was going to say that it's not "wrong" but more isometric - a style that intentionally cares little about perspective.
frankly I think the best art advice that one could ever give is "be intentional"
damn the entire training arc on twitter finally paying off.
really glad to know the process of drawing boxes the way you did for all those months lol
One point perspective for long roads.
Two point perspective for interiors.
Three point perspective for cityscape and outdoors
and isometric for product design
"N point" perspective is a lie.
Each set of parallel lines converges to a different point, so there are infinitely many perspective points. And placing them shouldn't be arbitrary either
i used to draw boxes from lots of angles during class and now people say i draw perspective really really well
This just blew my mind, I sincerely appreciate this. At first I was looking at this with some arrogance, but soon to realize, I have so much more to learn than I previously have thought so. Thank you so very much for helping me figuring that out. I’ll be sure to make this, a daily habit. Have a wonderful day.
I remember in 8th grade we were also taught perspective and how to draw boxes, except they told us to make all lines parallel 😭 It all looked so stiff and unrealistic, now I know why
she secondhandedly teached us perspective without us knowing😂
This is a really good video! Thank you for teaching this in such a simple, understandable and digestible way! 👏
Very informative. I've seen this thing about drawing boxes before this time I felt like I understood why it's good to use them. Thank you!
0:19 Why did nobody tell me thiissssss
I really appreciate your videos because they feel like they have... actual advice to them? No shade to other art tutorial channels but with a lot of them their message boils down to "put in the work and you'll get better" and while that's true to an extent, you need to know what your weaknesses are and how to overcome them. A lot of them just gloss over that because they either never struggled with that part of it or can't articulate it well. The amount of times I've tried to practice drawing and was stuck looking at my bad art going "what am I doing wrong?!?! *I don't know what I'm doing wrong*" is too many to count, and now I can feel vindicated that it's not just me and most people are just really bad at teaching complete beginners LOL
I'm about to be in box hell for the first time. Pray for me.
Fantastic video, every time an artist says "draw cubes" I ignored it because i just assumed i was doing it correctly. Knowing why and more importantly how to draw the boxes in perspective is expanding my mind. I'm finally understanding why my art usually looks so flat even though i thought i had the fundamentals down. If anyone very asks me for a good video to get started in drawing, this is going to me go-to reference.
Love that she included checking how close the lines come to converging! A lot of tutorials don't mention a way to "check your work." That makes it a lot harder to figure out what/if you're doing it wrong. So thanks Pikat!
Learned how vanishing points work in this video, i always made perspective by imagining the object in the position i want in my head, and if its too hard i look for reference like similar angles and such, if i cant find it or bother to look for it, i just try doing the pose myself, either way i doubt im gonna use those points
Using a box as a measurement for proportion is really cool. Nobody taught me this before !
ahhhh thank you so much, ive been struggling with this a lot, your video taught me a lot, bout to go practice right now!!!
I love your videos so far, I feel a lot people say the same things and in their heads they know why to do something, but they dont explain to newer people why you should, your video answered to my why drawing boxes is important to learn to do, it goes into so many more things i never thought about before, so thank you
first minute of the video and i already learned something that i havent been thinking about for my entire life🙏🙏🙏 ive watched thousands of art vids and i never learned this. thank u so much
Wow pikat I noticed how much the channels grown congrats on 100k well deserved
I love how dynamic your vtuber is!!
Would be nice if tutorials would mention that lines should converge into points
Loving the videos!
you have such a special way in presenting yourself and explaining. Direct like
Thanks for the tips and advice!
Hi pikat, I really love your art vids and posts;;;; You've inspired me to a lot as a beginner artist.
Can you please do a vid talking about your art journey in the future? Hope you have a great day!
Came for the boxes, stayed for the angelic voice.
godspeed 😤😤
基礎だと言われるが、正しく描く方法が全く分かりませんでした。これはすごく分かりやすく説得力があります！
ありがとうございます😊
make more videos on how to apply this lesson!! I can't stop drawing (good) boxes but I'm not sure how to use them efficiently
I have been drawing boxes as my default doodle for a while, and i think it has helped me understand perpective better. :)
A painful learning point for an artist is that you aren’t drawing in 2D.
"I live to make bad decisions" should become merch
ive been practicing art for a few weeks now after finally having the courage to learn. this. this rn taught me why my art felt so off. I love I'm finally understanding this
I really enjoyed your tutorial, I like your voice, your editing and your avatar I also learned a lot, thanks
i cant believe I've been drawing boxes wrong for 15 years! Thank you for this video
The notion about not drawing pararellel lines with boxes helped significantly. and seeing Krenz cusharts' rotated front side for boxes helped me realize i had a fixed positioned front side for my box drawing. .
You genuinely flipped the script no one mentions this. I literally have been drawing boxes wrong the entire time. Thank you for your advice.
POV: youre an engineering student trying art
Back in May to August 2022 I would draw boxes like in the beginning of the video because I didn't know better. I learned about perspective and I'm glad this video appeared so I could see how far I've come in my drawing journey.
Every time I watch this I learn something new.
Pikat, your tips were so helpful.
Finally, my dumbself got to understand perspective got to apply it!
You keep doing great work!
You're amazing! 😊
this video teach me so much, thank you !!!! you are amazing❤
gods, you're so funny and engaging, while at the same time being helpful >:3 cccccombo, ty
I like how are you editing this videosss, im also a box lover hehe
4:28 I'm almost 28 and this is the first time i've seen someone explain properly how the vanishing points work. Every Art teacher so far was just like 'think of where the horizonline is and where your eyes are looking' I'm starting to suspecr that they didn't know themselves
This video was so great. I learned and laughed
just 6K subs? i love your content, keep it up!
This was a really great video
OMG I never thought about it that way :O I always struggle with deepness when drawing bodies. Now I now why :) thx
This is the stuff we learned at school actually starting off. Don't know why I haven't seen many tutorials outside of this one explain these fundamentals
Actually this a very new (for me) viewpoint you have about faking the perspective and why draw boxes :D so thank you :)
Yay Pikat upload!
Idk why but I keep starring at your pixel character model, I like its animations a lot. Good edits btw
I like drawing perspective grids! it's fun
that's literally the best video abot box i've ever seen
this video inspire me back to drawing, thank you
I like this video 👍 now I can draw perfect boxes everytime thank you very much
Great video. Perspective really is a skeleton key to a lot of things, probably one of the most important things to learn since its the basis of our 3D world
One piece of advice that never made sense to me was "think in 3D." It always felt very vague and didn't really explain anything. Now I understand that it pretty much means "think in perspective" which makes a lot more sense.
And like you said, boxes can be used to break anything down, especially the human form. So it really is a big help.
genuinely just had something click in my head due to this - i've been trying for ages to try and use boxes to draw bodies correctly but ive never had it work until watching this video lmao
I fucking hate that NOBODY EVER TOLD ME THIS, NOBODY EVER GIVE A FUCK TO TEACH ME THIS, *EVERYBODY JUST ASSUME THAT YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS AND THEY CALL YOU DUMB IF YOU DID'NT*
Hi, Pikat! I had no idea about your TH-cam channel! Subbed right away!
I just found your video, it's very useful!
I am almost a 28 y.o. man who want to draw to have money and fun, and I often face the problem when I sit next to blank paper for hours and can't draw what I want.
I always underestimated drawing primitives because I thought I am fine with perspective, but I never thought that I need it to make connection between hand and mind to make it easier to imagine volumes and build my drawing easily!
Also, your avatar is very creative! That style of pixel-art in 3D looks very adorable!
I wish to see it in the game one time :)
And I love your voice.
It's very soothing and attractive.
Thank you and greetings from Russia!
You and Kuno are always in my TL praising boxes, now I see the vision
Yes perspective is important 😂Thank you for sharing your knowledge
I like your videos. Thank your for them.
I really like the pixel avatar setup combined with the pixel hand cursor
I really like this video because it simplifies A LOT of over complicated things in my mind. Like when I first learned perspective a bit through draw a box, I was like "this is super complicated, how am I going to applu all that without taking 1 week per drawing and killing myself at the end?" but you simplied it and the concept of perspective grid by telling that you don't need to use them to be a great artiste, you just need to fake it good enough through basic principles of perspective. Which is AWESOME and save me a lot of pain. The only thing I would have wanted would be more examples of how we use that in real examples (aka real drawings) because in your toilet example, I do'nt really feel like the convergeance to vanishing points really change anything? But that said, this video really reassured me because I was scared that by not doing perfect perspective (aka not using perspective grid or not putting so much effort into it) I was doing it WRONG. But you proved me that no, no actual artist use perfect perspective they just fake it through little tricks just like I do! so yeah, thank you for that haha!
i love your sprite vtuber its very cute
hella insipiring
I learnt more in the first 2 mins than I have in the past 4 years of wanting to learn to draw
Krita has a pretty good perspective grid tool. But it's still enlightening to finally understand that perspective must work at all times, even when practicing spatial thinking via boxes.
holy shi i just understood vanishing point so fast with this video
also just wow, realizing everything IS made up of box and cylinder and immediately already learned through this video how to do them
Instructions unclear. I have been boxed.
But more seriously: thanks for making this video. I'm just getting started! 😊
THIS VIDEO HAS MADE IT ALL CLICK TOGETHER!!!!!!
Wow. This really helped me. Like a whole lot. That's like a whole new way to look at it. It like clicked. I legit paused at 2:03, and started drawing boxes. You just totally flipped my brain inside my skull here, like an omelette. I didn't think 2 minutes of my life would completely tear open a new crevasse for my mind's eye to see from. Thank you, truly and sincerely, for your insight. This has zero sarcasm, the right side of my head radiated with pain trying to convey how useful this information was. Thank you (a second time).
Thanks for the tips
That's a realy weird and mind blowing perspective on drawing boxes
Certainly explains why the practice I did yesterday felt off, atleast for the diagnol, also yes, vanishing points are annoying to set up and keep accurate, gonna follow that "an attempt was made approach"
3:19 thank you, finally someone that understands my struggle of STINKY PERSPECTIVE GRIDS
Why did this actually blow my mind 😅
Nice to see Pikat decided to make a TH-cam.
2:04 I am reminded of the first art lesson in high school. all we did was understanding vanishing points and drawing boxes with 2 and 3 vanishing points
Old skyline cord gamer showing up on my recommended? Thats pretty cool. Also I learned a draw tip, dope.
that sub-division grid of Boxes, to make Rectangles, reminds me of the method grid to find the other Eye,
i learned from Ahmed Aldoori, in his Hands tutorial lesson
The cylinder section was very informative. Now to get back to drawing giant weights.
Wow thanks for the info
Great video!
Fuck yes its about vanishing points, I havent drawn since middle school, but dammit I remember the rules well and drawing architecture was my favourite
you have now convinced me to draw boxes🦦
This is basically what i learned during my engineering course on technical drawings
Great video! Do you have tips on how to rotate box in perspective?
great video. I will go order Amazon boxes to pose for me. Thank you.
All seriousness. I am trying to learn how to 2d animate and it's so hard if you can't make things feel 3d.
You've earned my subscription. I'm sure your channel will blow up here soon.
I imagine how first artists realized perspective
Ayo pikat has a youtube to spread boxes?? Lets goo
I took a nap to take a break from Darawbox’s 250 box challenge, and woke up to find this video in my feed. I want to draw cute anime girls so I’m glad to see I’m going down the right path 🙏
how do i say this was so easy and so complicating at the same time