This is very helpful! Would love to see more on perspective. For example, a line of fence posts receding in the distance: isn't there a quick formula on the height and distance of the posts (seems someone showed me one, I have forgotten.) How about the size of people in the street compared to distance and the building perspective? Maybe give tips and the mistakes commonly made. Your videos are really awesome!
Thank you. I thought I was having a tough time with figure drawing and foreshortening but then I figured the problem was actually perspective and trouble visualizing 3D forms in different angles and overlapping each other. I guess for a lot of self taught artists that’s the problem and we just don’t realize it. Amazing how much progress I’ve made in things like drawing hands just with serious practice of basic form.
Ok so I would be really interested in , so like sketches from real life , so if I was downtown and wanted to sketch the area. I would like to see you show a seen see you sketch it the break in back down to its simplest forms . So a beginner can see how to make something complicated out of simple shapes in practical format
I sometimes have bad perspective in my outdoor sketches, because for some reason the top edges on buildings are straight , if you look the cubes you drew with perspective, you can see that the top lines are at an angle to eachother, my buildings sometimes dont have that, how can I put a little more depth in my paintings or drawings?
Setting up the vanishing point really helps with this. Also, you can use the edges of the paper to assess and draw lines in different angles, that are not perfectly horizontal. I will try going deeper on this topic in an upcoming video (:
The cruelest fate i was given is my wish to learn to draw but being born with bad spatial awareness i have spent a good year trying to learn to move things in my mind and see 3D space and one of the worst parts is how transparent forms like where you draw through a box the back side and front side seem to flip when i look at then and it does not stop and no one can help me since no one has this issue no matter who i have talked to.....I wonder if this is due to one eye being worse then the other.....oh well dreams die and go it can't be helped.
just practicing isn't very efficient and sufficient tbh i suggest going for learning from more creators to expand your knowledge and pov and filter the relevant and irrelevant information and techniques
I put this lesson to use tonight by walking around my house, quickly sketching all sorts of objects and their shadows. There are shadows within shadows, and overlapping shadows. Really paid attention to what I was seeing. Will be doing a lot more of this. :)
I'm at 4:55 and just now finding out why houses are so hard for me. I've only ever been drawing from above or below to indicate left- right horizontal shift. I could not conceptualise that moving on a 2d plane just results in an elongated rectangle. Just parallel lines. Fkn game-changer.
I loved this very basic beginner concepts video. My 4th graders I teach religion to laugh at my stick figures. I can’t even get them right! Actually, would you do a 3D stick figure video. For example, arm up in a wave or pointing, or sitting
This was great. Especially like the random shape. Really help me train my eye. Also loved how you did a quick application drawing the building at the end..
i know im randomly asking but does someone know of a way to get back into an Instagram account?? I somehow lost my account password. I would love any help you can give me.
This is helpful. I've been trying to do at least 20 3D shapes a day in my drawing warm-up. In addition to trying to change the angle, I've been trying to transform them by stretching, compressing, or twisting (I find this really hard). So for example, imagine pushing down on the point of a pyramid so that the edges of the pyramid bow out, or pulling on it so they draw in. Or twisting the top in relation to the base. You can do this with cubes, cylinders, etc.
I love the idea of compressing, stretching, twisting etc! I try and do that often too. Twisting a box especially can be super hard. I find it's very much needed for when you want to move to tougher volumes like drawing the different parts of the human body. Great job! 💪😁
This is really useful! Especially when you did the random shape. My family doesn’t really do art so they don’t know how to make 3D shapes! My teachers suggested this video for my class and they definitely made a good choice!
I'm an anime artist and I have a hard time with drawing bodies and the wrinkles in clothing and even muscles ): so could you make a video about anatomy, clothing, and muscles?
Will talk a bit about it in today’s video (will do questions and answers, and answer yours too 😊). I’ll also try making a video in the future. This is something I’m learning and improving at every day
I drew a reel of masking tape that was lying on a table. I could not get it right, I repeated drawing it at different distances from my eyes. I think that the depth of the tape was in the wrong position. Can you suggest how to make it right? Thanks.
Great, former math teacher who loves solid geometry. A cube has all equal edges. If some are long and some short, it is a rectangular solid. Triangular solid is a tetrahedron.
light and shadow please. I just got a ton of paper that I put beside my chair so every time I sit down I will take a paper and pen and do theses shapes.
this channel is such a gem! the way you explain things is MADE for my brain! it all just clicks! I wish I had money to afford your course. Thank you so much for these videos!
Since you asked, how about a 3D golf ball shape but not with dimples, instead 5 or 6 sided bumps, pineapple/grenade like for grip with shading and depth ?
Hi, I am new to your channel. Not good at drawing, but I have started to feel that I need to draw something to feel better! Your videos are so good to watch and very encouraging to practise some techniques. Thank you so much ❤
In your video about the vanishing point, can you teach us how we know/decide where to put it ? Great exercices, I'll definitely practice them later today!
I'm trying to design a cartoon tigger and crab an lobster for his new boat I'm sorry of this is not spelled right my scream on ny phoneis smashed during a fight with someone who I tried to help out but I want to learn ☺
Glad you made this video. My major issue is 3D and prospective drawing. I have been trying to get good at it for years. I decided to check this vid out and I enjoyed the lesson. After I feel comfortable practicing I will watch another one of yours. Thank you
God loves you all that he died for our sins because NOBODY IS PERFECT, whether you wanna repent or not, that's YOUR CHOICE, NOT MINE. :D Jesús le ama tanto que él muriera por todos nuestros pecados porque NADIE ES PERFECTO. Si usted quiere arrepentirse o no, es SU opción, NO LA MÍA. ¡Dios bendice! :D
But we need feedback to see if our 3d objects are consistent with perspective lines. I can't improve just by randomly doodling! I've been doing that my whole life.
I am an HVAC contractor. I draw rudimentary rectactular furnaces connected to cylindrical ducting with square to round transitions that are really tough to coherently draw. How can I draw 3D versions of this? Plz help
i can see 3D but i forget the 3d remember the 2d i use less cpu and gpu, of my brain ! i don't even remember colors of any objects - i see and i forget the color i dont ever know mt shirts color
I find your videos more helpful and interesting compared to all the other RU-vidrs I've watched. Which your probably not seeing this since you put this out so long ago but i thought i would tell you anyways
The pyramid with three sides on top of called a tetrahedron (four sides including the bottom). It's actually a building block for silicate minerals like quartz, so geologists draw a lot of these in school. All that time I was practicing art and didn't know it.
Thanks Liron. I've been working on my drawing and this helps. Foreshortening and perspective don't always come easy for me but I work at it. Thanks for the video class!
I have noticed each time you start on 3d drawings, you will draw a circle, but then you migrate away from it to squares and triangles...do you have one working on 3d circular drawings? Thanks
Here around min 30:00 I focus a bit more on spheres (: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PuZceN6pOlk.html But I indeed need to make a more specific vid about it
Hey man, I'm doing a lot of gesture drawing / figure drawing practice... but I also feel my perspective needs working on (can always improve) is there a way to kill two birds with one stone? I guess what I am asking is what is the best exercise to practice drawing the human form, ideally whilst also testing perspective skills?
Well, trying to abstract the human form into an assembly of boxes, cubes and cylinders definitely ups your figure drawing game, especially in preparation of shading. And all that working with geometric bodies will at least keep your perspective game current. *Proko* has a lot of this in his basic drawing course videos.
thanks this was helpful, I am ok at drawing but when I tried to draw some mecha earlier today I noticed I struggled a bit with the basics (3D shapes). This was a good refresher to get me going,
Thank you, happy it helped! 😁🙏🏼 Check out this updated video, I think it’ll really help specifically with Mecha - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bv3Yvfouf2o.html
That tetrahedron shape, or triangular prism, is actually super common in the natural world. The molecular structure for methane looks just like it and it can be found in all kinds of compounds and structures! It is also known as a caltrop, which is a weapon you put on the ground for your enemies to step on.
I would love if you could take this concept and talk about/show for example perspective on a “wavy” cylindrical shape. For example an old time Coca Cola bottle seen from different angles and with perspective. I tried i a other comment to mention, I’m having a hard time trying to draw small airplanes like say a Cessna 172. Both the wings (in different attitudes) and the body which is somewhat like a Coca Cola bottle on its side, where the airplane body gets smaller towards the back. Also with all those “planes” suck as wings, elevators, stabilizer (the crossed wings at the back of a small plane) it is a tough challenge to get them all right,
I have trouble understanding the shapes of shadows. Some look similar to the object (maybe elongated or shortened) and some don't resemble the object at all. Drawing from a reference obviously helps that. But how do you work with shadows if you don't have something specific to look at? Thank you.
I would like to have a video on combining the "cube" and the Loomis method so I will be able to draw my own invention portraits in any position, specially in 3/4 vue. I had watched many videos on the Loomis method. I also have his books but one of your video on the cube where you mention briefly the Loomis method combine with the method for a cube had help me a lot to figure how things go. Thank you so much for all, you explain every very well. M. Simard
when looking at ,say, railroad tracks going off into the distance we see the tracks narrowing but also the ties are getting closer together . Is there a formula to place those types of lines in perspective ?
I would like an in depth how to between tanker truck ( I own a.s.a.p septic systems) as opposed to a trailer ( sorta of like the trailers hauling fly ash material from a coal burning power plant). I want to filter the solids and leave the water, instead of hauling 1500 gallons @ ( 9 lbs per gal). I could leave (easily) 900 gallons non-potable water- the water conservation will astronomical.
Thank you for the sharing. Could you pkease explain how to construct 3D boxes when drawing the torso and the pelvis. I still can't construct them in my mind and tracing the correct angle or vue when I want to start drawing. It's rather hard to represent them in your head, first when you see a body. Could you make a tuto for that? Thanks you very much.
