I'm gonna learn how to draw, again. This time, a bit of 3D forms and perspective. here's my slides if you're interested Fundamentals: docs.google.co... Anatomy: docs.google.co...
I've been thinking a lot about why I am able to draw anatomy from any angle without reference, get good perspective, also draw good objects and perspective in nature - when I suck at architecture. I have a really hard time with perspective when it comes to straight lines and I've been thinking about it a lot and I'm suspecting I can draw good anatomy and nature scenes because I am self taught and did not learn how to draw from a box perspective, however, I learned from a sphere perspective and cylinders, even though I did not use them as a base. I imprinted every bodypart in a 3D form with an unconscious sphere sperspective in other words. I see everything as curved. Don't get me wrong, I can draw a simple cube, but I can't connect cubes from different angles and get it right or give it greater distance. I even struggle with a room in a one point perspective - except with the curved objects. So I think we need to be able to view things from both a cube and a sphere perspective. I've heard people learning the box method eventually want to unlearn it because at one point it just gets in the way of getting into a flow and can make it difficult to take the next step into creating good anatomy without a reference, and if your head is not at all inclined to view things from the sphere perspective it basically mess it up for you, just like my mind mess up seeing architecture and rooms as boxes. I focus on the towers and curved roof and I've noticed it sometimes it get almost like an organic feel, like trees or body parts. I'm not stating this as a fact but after realising this and learning about how we see our surrounding from a fish eye perspective it made practicing easier.
Good point! I agree that we need to both see things in a more structured matter (cubes, etc.)and a more organic matter (spherical and round forms). I'll likely cover this topic for another video, structure vs flow. personally I like combining both of them when I draw people, but backgrounds like buildings I do like a bit more structured.
@@Cuora-qc1vy yeah I can see some body parts would fit into the box method, I mean, you just need to add a bit of curves to it, more or less, depending on how the person looks. The only body part I base as seperate and more structured before hand is hands. I find it easier to add the fingers if they're very angled so I guess hands is the closest I get to that method. But apparently the box method is easier to learn as a beginner so I get why so many use it. There's a youtuber, I don't remember his name, but he tells his students to also study roots, trees and rocks early and I think that helps a lot with the sphere perspective. I started with nature and animals as a kid, so if I had studied boxes along side that I wouldn't have had this problem today. At least not as much.
