Pikats like that cool aunt we all wish we had growing up for real. The way she breaks things down for artists of any knowledge basically is such a high value
What I like about your videos is that you follow a logic on what to learn and what to do to learn those things. Most art tutorials that I see just tells things as they are and don't actually teach you how to practice. For example, a common art tutorial about boxes would just say that you have to draw in perspective, but wouldn't actually show you those lines and diagonals and proportion techniques like you did. This is why I like your channel :) please keep it up!
Felt so motivated and un- intimidated by it all, but the SECOND you mentioned I STILL need to learn the ENTIRETY of anatomy, I gen. don't feel like trying. Every time I hope that I can learn something, there's always another entirely different thing that is WAY less simple and WAY more tedious. I just wanna draw things good, not have more homework to constantly worry about😭
I think people forget that when teachers tell you that "you need to learn anatomy" it doesn't mean first thing first learning every muscle and all that in medical way. This means that you need to learn the proportions of a person and the "shape" of muscles and body parts. And then, only those that are on the surface of the body. This detailed study of all muscles and their behavior during body movement occurs only when you have studied the "base" of anatomy. so don't be afraid to start studying the human body)
I am grateful for the cube (and by extension basic forms, lines, and ellipse practice). It is the great filter where you get to see Dunning-Kruger in full effect.
I understand how to draw the body as boxes, and it helps me with perspective and stuff, but I struggle with going from boxes to like.. body shapes.. and noone ever talks abt that
And thats where the fundamental Construction enters! Along with the knowledge of Anatomy as Pikat has mentioned in the video, you have to study anatomy individually, although its a bit tedious, eventually you'll be able to turn boxes into body shapes!
as someone whos been drawing for only a few years and is looking to improve this was massively helpful. i was genuinely taking notes so I can move forward in improving my art. Thank you!
Everything you want to draw is either a box or can fit inside a box. And if you can use boxes for perspective, then you can use that box to place not-boxes into perspective.
Step 1: Draw boxes Step 2: Spend 2 years learning anatomy Step 3: Draw the rest of the owl well, good to know I'm doing it right, just gotta keep the grind.
This video only proves that EVERY young artist should start with Draw A Box course, I still shiver whenever I remember HUNDREDS of pages filled with overlaping long continuous lines, rectangles with elipses, and even BOXES, its like artist's Vietnam but now I can confidently draw forms in perspective/3d space and lines with full control, this may not seem like much but its sooo good when such basics stop troubling you so you can free up your mind of those and put it to solve actual dificult fundamentals!
THANK YOU PIKAT I always learn so much more from your tutorials than any class I took in school. Like extending out boxes and WHY every drawing class made sure we knew how to draw boxes. Thanks for ur tutorials 😊
Somehow you posted exactly the video I needed, exactly at the time I'm needing it. The very next day I discovered your channel. Almost scary. I've seen videos about fundamentals of perspectve but they didn't show as clearly the whole process from going to those basis to actual drawing of people and how "No, it's not because you stop drawing the boxes at some point they are useless"
If I can give you some feedback: I loove these videos in which you show a glimpse of the hard-work you go and went through. It leaves me inspired to deepen my studies more and more.
OMG I NEEDED THIS VIDEO TY SO MUCH!!!! srsly, last week i was complaining to my friend that whenever i went to search for tutorials to draw perspective it aways say to draw the body as 3d shapes, but i only knew one way to draw a 3d shape (like 0:13) 😭😭😭 im going to save this video to finish watching later, but the beginning has already helped a lot :DD
Imo if you are starting out better to use boxes then add spherical forms inside the boxes to then add the muscles on top of later down the road this also helps you better place your spheres in perspective and actually gives you a solid idea of where it's going as I know when I first started getting into anatomy I was not good with cross contours and showing their form with them (they always felt flat) so I found what worked for me was box then sphere
Learning boxes is like learning the alphabet. It feels like a far shot from getting to the creative part, but it sure does add to the end result if you learn it. Edit: You are literally the first one I have stumbled across who actually put into the words the connection between boxes and anatomy. I can find instructions for the two separately, but no one really put into words how to connect them. Thanks for sharing.
this video was a nice reminder that my efforts in doing DrawABox were well spent even though i didn't finish the course. the first lesson is very helpful and i still do the warm ups regularly. pikat adds onto the information well here. i always struggled to draw bodies in perspective, but now i understand how to better use boxes to guide myself after being confused for so long heh
BOXES, BOXES, BOOOOXESS!!!! Seriously though, thank you for putting this in perspective, I'm lucky enough to have a teacher who provided me with these methods early on, but it's sort of enlightening to see someone else's approach and how everything chains together, you explain really well!
As I've been trying to git gud at art, it's funny, Pikat always seems to upload the exact thing I've been trying to learn, right when I need it. It's like magic, or as if she's reading my mind with psychic power, or something, lol.
You persuaded me to start drawing EVERYTHING in boxes! Not only breast and pelvis... I need more love for boxes to improve my proportion and anatomy skills 😂😅 ... Thank you! Nice Video! Love to watch your videos :)
To be honest from my experienced when I started year ago I said "Boxes? I can do that! Studies? I will learn frop practise" and here we are, doing anathomy studies and finding them fun as hell as well as wanting to try learn more about boxes. Hell, more you start digging into something more you realise that there are more to "dig" to.
hi Pikat! i just wanted to say i’ve been really sick today and watching this was the first thing i did after wasting away in bed for several hours, and i genuinely feel a lot better now :](mentally that is, i still feel like shit physically) this was so helpful, especially the tip about ellipses- i will absolutely be putting that into practice, ive been trying to freehand them for years and obviously it hasnt worked out very well 😭 tysm for the awesome video :D
I've actually been making progress on my boxes lately once I started trying to pay attention to the 3 vanishing points, and understood this stuff already. At least in concept; I'm not very practiced at it yet. Right now I'm more interested on why my lines are so wobbly on the tablet. I may check your videos for that; your explanations are the ones making these concepts finally click for me.
After two days I've come to the conclusion it's actually the yoga of a learning-meditation routine I've been following that's making things work better. I kinda.. already understand the perspective of 3D boxes already. The issue is I can't control my arms into straight lines. But since I started stretching my shoulders a ton, they've been improving a lot.. like.. day to day. I think it's the rolling shoulders around forward and back in careful mindful movements. At first, really jerky movements. But as I can control my shoulders more smoothly, then whadya know, my lines stopped also jerking into a curve as hard or much.
I struggle with this also. You can find some of Pikat's vod's on Twitch (1 vod?) when she does the exercise and you might be able to use it for corrections. For the figure looking unnatural (stiff?), even if the proportions are right, I think that's normal and it tends to happen when you build your figure from a rigid base, like squares or other basic shapes. Gesture drawing is what I think would fix it, but I think you'd need to master the proportions and perspective before that.
Checking that my cube is good: > It looks like a cube ✅ > Extend each set of parallel lines to see if they converge to more or less the same point. Me a mathematician trying to learn art: B-but... they never will... and never should... > Panic So, should I always be drawing my cubes in 3 point perspective?
Currently trying out both the bean and box construction methods and they're both a doozey in their own way, definitely worth giving each an honest few shots. Bean feels more organic but more directionally lost in space, whilst the box has the opposite problem. I wonder if there's a sweet spot between the two.
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Pikats like that cool aunt we all wish we had growing up for real. The way she breaks things down for artists of any knowledge basically is such a high value
I would say for me kind of like the cool friend in high school who wants to help you learn and does better than the art teacher lol
real
cool aunt is a strange way of looking at it, she's more like an older sister
I’ll say she like a cousin
Fr tho 😃😃😃
Boxes is life, life is boxes
And yet the universe is all circles... deep
Box
life is roblox… box…
Life is like a box of chocolates
Box is life's final destination
What I like about your videos is that you follow a logic on what to learn and what to do to learn those things. Most art tutorials that I see just tells things as they are and don't actually teach you how to practice. For example, a common art tutorial about boxes would just say that you have to draw in perspective, but wouldn't actually show you those lines and diagonals and proportion techniques like you did. This is why I like your channel :) please keep it up!
Yeah, a lot of tutorials are like “just do the thing!” And I’m always like but How??? ☹️
5:25 that is actually S tier technique, thank oyu!
I was just thinking about how to draw the human figure with boxes, and youtube recommended this to me
What a unique coordination
@@albarnombradia6345 sometimes the recommendations can send ya to a cool channel
Felt so motivated and un- intimidated by it all, but the SECOND you mentioned I STILL need to learn the ENTIRETY of anatomy, I gen. don't feel like trying. Every time I hope that I can learn something, there's always another entirely different thing that is WAY less simple and WAY more tedious. I just wanna draw things good, not have more homework to constantly worry about😭
same
I think people forget that when teachers tell you that "you need to learn anatomy" it doesn't mean first thing first learning every muscle and all that in medical way. This means that you need to learn the proportions of a person and the "shape" of muscles and body parts. And then, only those that are on the surface of the body.
This detailed study of all muscles and their behavior during body movement occurs only when you have studied the "base" of anatomy. so don't be afraid to start studying the human body)
If you learn form and perspective you can draw whatever you want
You don't need to master every inch of anatomy to be an artist
1:24 this guy has a big box
0:50 WHY square undies are the best
I am grateful for the cube (and by extension basic forms, lines, and ellipse practice). It is the great filter where you get to see Dunning-Kruger in full effect.
just from your "avatar", I knew instantly that you're gonna cook something
Brand new artsy guy here. I audibly went "HOLY CRAP THATS SO COOL" when she showed how the box perspective thing worked.
Insane timing, I’ve been searching for this exact thing
this is so well timed 😭
I understand how to draw the body as boxes, and it helps me with perspective and stuff, but I struggle with going from boxes to like.. body shapes.. and noone ever talks abt that
And thats where the fundamental Construction enters! Along with the knowledge of Anatomy as Pikat has mentioned in the video, you have to study anatomy individually, although its a bit tedious, eventually you'll be able to turn boxes into body shapes!
I was stuck on drawing the human figure beyond just boxes and honestly this helped so much. Thank you ❄️
as someone whos been drawing for only a few years and is looking to improve this was massively helpful. i was genuinely taking notes so I can move forward in improving my art. Thank you!
Everything you want to draw is either a box or can fit inside a box. And if you can use boxes for perspective, then you can use that box to place not-boxes into perspective.
I love that I can still use my imagination to do the box manequin, sadly adhd nerfs it by imagining 7000 things every second
Step 1: Draw boxes
Step 2: Spend 2 years learning anatomy
Step 3: Draw the rest of the owl
well, good to know I'm doing it right, just gotta keep the grind.
just what i needed actually!
This video only proves that EVERY young artist should start with Draw A Box course, I still shiver whenever I remember HUNDREDS of pages filled with overlaping long continuous lines, rectangles with elipses, and even BOXES, its like artist's Vietnam but now I can confidently draw forms in perspective/3d space and lines with full control, this may not seem like much but its sooo good when such basics stop troubling you so you can free up your mind of those and put it to solve actual dificult fundamentals!
THANK YOU PIKAT I always learn so much more from your tutorials than any class I took in school. Like extending out boxes and WHY every drawing class made sure we knew how to draw boxes. Thanks for ur tutorials 😊
So cool of you to make approachable videos about boxes 🙏
Somehow you posted exactly the video I needed, exactly at the time I'm needing it. The very next day I discovered your channel. Almost scary.
I've seen videos about fundamentals of perspectve but they didn't show as clearly the whole process from going to those basis to actual drawing of people and how "No, it's not because you stop drawing the boxes at some point they are useless"
Will you have a survivor's guilt when I told you some of us struggled for years or even quit before realizing what was said in the video? ;)
Very useful Pikat, thank you very much, plus your OC/model is so beautiful 1‼️‼️
If I can give you some feedback: I loove these videos in which you show a glimpse of the hard-work you go and went through. It leaves me inspired to deepen my studies more and more.
Your last boxes video has me actually drawing people who look like people! can't wait!
OMG I NEEDED THIS VIDEO TY SO MUCH!!!!
srsly, last week i was complaining to my friend that whenever i went to search for tutorials to draw perspective it aways say to draw the body as 3d shapes, but i only knew one way to draw a 3d shape (like 0:13) 😭😭😭
im going to save this video to finish watching later, but the beginning has already helped a lot :DD
Love your explanations every time Pik, thank you.
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for, thank you!!
perfectly articulated instant follow this helps out lots especially the part on continuous angle to get the same size boxes in prospective
Imo if you are starting out better to use boxes then add spherical forms inside the boxes to then add the muscles on top of later down the road this also helps you better place your spheres in perspective and actually gives you a solid idea of where it's going as I know when I first started getting into anatomy I was not good with cross contours and showing their form with them (they always felt flat) so I found what worked for me was box then sphere
accidentally clicked thinking it was a 3D model poly modeling video, now i can draw what witch craft is this
Learning boxes is like learning the alphabet. It feels like a far shot from getting to the creative part, but it sure does add to the end result if you learn it.
Edit: You are literally the first one I have stumbled across who actually put into the words the connection between boxes and anatomy. I can find instructions for the two separately, but no one really put into words how to connect them. Thanks for sharing.
this video was a nice reminder that my efforts in doing DrawABox were well spent even though i didn't finish the course. the first lesson is very helpful and i still do the warm ups regularly. pikat adds onto the information well here. i always struggled to draw bodies in perspective, but now i understand how to better use boxes to guide myself after being confused for so long heh
I stopped drawing for a very long time, I need to re-lern this, so thank you
Tonight is box study night!
BOXES, BOXES, BOOOOXESS!!!! Seriously though, thank you for putting this in perspective, I'm lucky enough to have a teacher who provided me with these methods early on, but it's sort of enlightening to see someone else's approach and how everything chains together, you explain really well!
Thank you so much for this! It is helping immensely!
Each time when i watch how to draw video my mental health go down(great video btw 2 minute in and is already great)
Amazing video like always Pikat! These DOVA SYNDROME songs are throwing me off due to the amount of vtubers and vtuber clippers I watch haha
As I've been trying to git gud at art, it's funny, Pikat always seems to upload the exact thing I've been trying to learn, right when I need it. It's like magic, or as if she's reading my mind with psychic power, or something, lol.
super great video as always
You persuaded me to start drawing EVERYTHING in boxes! Not only breast and pelvis... I need more love for boxes to improve my proportion and anatomy skills 😂😅 ... Thank you! Nice Video! Love to watch your videos :)
To be honest from my experienced when I started year ago I said "Boxes? I can do that! Studies? I will learn frop practise" and here we are, doing anathomy studies and finding them fun as hell as well as wanting to try learn more about boxes.
Hell, more you start digging into something more you realise that there are more to "dig" to.
You are quite the inspiration, good work!
It was very useful to me thansk
hi Pikat! i just wanted to say i’ve been really sick today and watching this was the first thing i did after wasting away in bed for several hours, and i genuinely feel a lot better now :](mentally that is, i still feel like shit physically)
this was so helpful, especially the tip about ellipses- i will absolutely be putting that into practice, ive been trying to freehand them for years and obviously it hasnt worked out very well 😭 tysm for the awesome video :D
Wait the drawing circles with boxes was kind of mind blowing...😭
the timing is crazy just as i was struggling with this
your video
saved me
I've actually been making progress on my boxes lately once I started trying to pay attention to the 3 vanishing points, and understood this stuff already. At least in concept; I'm not very practiced at it yet. Right now I'm more interested on why my lines are so wobbly on the tablet. I may check your videos for that; your explanations are the ones making these concepts finally click for me.
After two days I've come to the conclusion it's actually the yoga of a learning-meditation routine I've been following that's making things work better.
I kinda.. already understand the perspective of 3D boxes already. The issue is I can't control my arms into straight lines.
But since I started stretching my shoulders a ton, they've been improving a lot.. like.. day to day.
I think it's the rolling shoulders around forward and back in careful mindful movements. At first, really jerky movements. But as I can control my shoulders more smoothly, then whadya know, my lines stopped also jerking into a curve as hard or much.
In fact... I really love drawing boxes!
I should really consider consulting :P
Pikat always managing to drop a video the second I need it 🙂↕️
Thanks, i'll try it
Thank you
my problem is putting the bodies in the boxes in perspective. it never works and always makes it harder to do and makes it so unnatural looking 😭
just learn perspective while drawing multiple shapes on top of each other
I struggle with this also. You can find some of Pikat's vod's on Twitch (1 vod?) when she does the exercise and you might be able to use it for corrections.
For the figure looking unnatural (stiff?), even if the proportions are right, I think that's normal and it tends to happen when you build your figure from a rigid base, like squares or other basic shapes. Gesture drawing is what I think would fix it, but I think you'd need to master the proportions and perspective before that.
Think about where the faces of your box and the body are.
Yes, bodies have faces.
Even spheres do have faces.
even tho i’m not digital this helped a lot, thanks
I started just understanding anatomy first... Yes it takes too much time but I think worth it. Boxes are like guides so I just use it for guidelines
I use circles and lines and it works for me
THIS IS THE MISSING LINK! YOU’RE MY HERO
Pikat was there when we needed her most...
I never thought i will need to watch this video,woww,new knowlegde achieve
Babe wake up, new Pikat drawing boxes tutorial just dropped.
Good, now you're thinking with BOXES!
Everything in the entire universe is either a box or not a box.
Thanks for the advice Pikat 😁😁😁😁😁😄😄😄😄😄
thank you for being innumerably better than my highschool art teacher ♥
Oh wow, something just clicked. Now I need to practice...
Oh my god I have been waiting for this video for so long
You must learn the way of the BOX fellow artist... 'tis a journey we all must undertake...
Super useful video
Thank u❗️
Thanks i need this Tip and Expansion ❤
Checking that my cube is good:
> It looks like a cube ✅
> Extend each set of parallel lines to see if they converge to more or less the same point.
Me a mathematician trying to learn art: B-but... they never will... and never should...
> Panic
So, should I always be drawing my cubes in 3 point perspective?
the best thing about anatomy for sculptures is how easy it is to pirate
Currently trying out both the bean and box construction methods and they're both a doozey in their own way, definitely worth giving each an honest few shots. Bean feels more organic but more directionally lost in space, whilst the box has the opposite problem. I wonder if there's a sweet spot between the two.
Perhaps you could show the faces of the bean when you draw it? As if you're sculpting a box into a bean form?
I'm not so good at drawing but these perspectives are so easy for me😁
I skip boxes, and stubbornly refuse to learn them, her voice compelled me to do so, time to draw Boxes!!!!
Every drawing is a box if you add enough boxes
Ah, yes. Long and thick boxes 😏😏
"Just use a subdivision surface" ahh moment.
Cool video
I've self learned to not use boxes but a simplified version
Math Teacher: told you, just wait until little Johnny buys those 250 watermelons
I just realized I drew through spring and summer and achieved nothing.
love this
This is where all the minecraft drawings from 1st to 5th grade pays off
I have been sold on boxes
When i was a kid i mostly drew cars
I guess it helped me to "kinda" skip this exercise
got this notification just as i was about to do some art studies hehe
Very ressourcful
I legit thought this was a Spongebob joke only until I tried it myself and regretting my stupidity.
All these squares make a circle
Turns out I can't even draw a Box properly 🔥
When i starred learning anatomy i always used circles for the upper body. Thet might not be the most efficient way, ALWAYS try boxes
the music felt loud for me in the intro, i couldn't focus much on what was being said. box is life
(IN TF2 Soldiers voice)
I DRAW BOXES LIKE A MAN!
PRO PIKAT POST!!!