@@ProkoTV yeah they're! Recently was trying to force me a little bit to draw more using cubes >instead< of blobs, but it's even reassuring to know they can be used together, I just needed to know how ^^ Thank you for the amazing videos
This is way more intuitive (and more enjoyable) for me than trying to keep track of a spiderweb of perspective lines. There is of course a time and place for proper construction theory, but this approach is very liberating.
You need to. To even make the anatomy look proportional in different angles. You also might need to draw a scenery, room or building behind your subject
I think it's great to address various techniques at different levels of specificity. Proko has some great anatomy courses, but some of it is so detailed and pertains a lot to life drawing and painting where all the focus has to be in one picture. It's easy for me to get in my own head about it when I use drawing mostly for scrapbooking ideas just enough for me to get them on revision, and animation, where the effort should usually be divided differently. I assume Stan would agree it's more important to enjoy the process and be a little fluid with gradual progression on the side than to be really strict and put technical accuracies before the fun of it
I feel like its a very good approach both for construction and for development of line prowess. I am working on both and I find doing things this way or similarly is far more efficient than my old bad habbit of trying to just mindlessly trying to go around the silhouette of every thing from the start xd
I think that art classes at school need to tell that way more earlier the kids, I knew this method way longer but the kids in my class didn't know this method (P.S. they need to watch u more often)(;
I usually use cirlces (or blobs), even when I picture other shapes (I'm that classic "everything can be put in a circle, triangle, rectangle, and square" kind of person). Say I draw the head of a horse, I start with a big and small circle, triangles for the ears, kind of a triangle to make the head connect (the 2 circles, the smaller being the muzzle), then the small circle becomes a box, and finishing with another triangle for the neck.
I find it very hard to identify position, orientation and size of ellipsoids called "blobs" in space, but using them as a stepping stone for blocks might just work.
We're covering perspective on our Drawing Basics lessons on the channel right now. There's a whole playlist of lessons from that course for you to check out. But you can start with the longer video this is from, linked under the title of this short.
Remember that nothing in the body looks like a box. You can use this as your guideline for perspectives, but i recommend drawing shapes that actually look like the body part youre trying to draw for your guidelines
This is something you can start to do after you become semi-comfortable with perspective. He mentions this in his longer video which this short comes from. Study perspective and then go to this
Hey Stan. I have a question. If i want to learn how to design and make cool looking characters, dynamic posing, all that stuff. What should i focus on as a beginner? I have a mentor. He just tells me to focus on cubes and perspective. And not to diviate from that. Is this the right way? Or do i need gesture drawing in the mix? Or anything else? Thx.
Yep! they're giving you a great starting point. that's how you develop the core understanding to invent from your imagination. It may feel like you're doing things that are less fulfilling than drawing cool costumes and characters with interesting stories. But that stuff is KEY to develop early on. That way, you can just draw without having to think about perspective and turning forms consciously. If you need reinforcing of that idea being important, here's a video on our channel where Antonio breaks down how primitive shapes are useful for everything: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6T_-DiAzYBc.html As a side note, trust your mentor. You asked them to help you for a reason. Respect and trust in that relationship is important or you won't gain anything from the knowledge they have that you want. We're here for questions but trust what they say too!
I'm confused. How do you know what shape to make the blob if you don't understand its perspective shape? Isn't the whole point of drawing boxes to do this the other way around?
Many people have a hard time placing the box. Starting with a general blob and reversing from that is a good technique for those people. They can envision an overall mass and once it's laid in, they can make that into a box. Not every technique is right for everyone. Different options exist because of the myriad ways people and their brains work.
