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My Major Take-Aways:
Thoughts on Boxes
- Boxes are inevitable. Learn to love boxes. (I have. Thank you drawabox)
- let go of 'perfection' seeking, it will hold you back. (Fact)
- practicing these fundamentals slows you way way down now so that later, you can go way way faster at the things you’ve practiced and understood (uncomfortable fact for most people)
- ghost a few lines before applying pressure: you are practicing the motions and building muscle memory. Rotate the page if you need to but get comfortable pulling/pushing/throwing a line at a comfortable angle
Remember to critique your practice afterwards. For example:
- There is wobble in that one, move a bit faster to correct;
- you have a tendency to hook the lines at the end. Draw from the shoulder and draw through when you remove the pen from the page;
- Practice boxes in 1 and 2 pt before trying 3 point: with fewer VPs, can focus on practicing gauging the angles to one
Thoughts on Cylinders - Ellipses with straights:
- Start with ellipse and make sure width is fixed.
- Copy forward visible edge to the bottom visible edge to keep the form convincing
- Toothpaste tub-ification: Don’t foreshorten too much without ensuring that bottom forward edge of the base isn’t just a little “C” curve. Otherwise you end up with tapered toothpaste tube, and not a cylinder. and not a figure either.
- To show depth, when rotating forward, widen the minor-axis of the top face, and mirror this edge shape to the bottom, but scaled down. This curvature is essential to keeping volume
NB: The minor axis, when an ellipse is drawn correctly, gives the direction of the perpendicular to the face of the ellipse
My sketchbook is full of pages where I fill in the spaces around other exercises with ellipses and circles practicing size, degree, and control. Often around other drawings that weren’t successful as a drawing.
I highly recommend DRAWABOX for anyone who wants a hardcore bootcamp on everything this 20 minute video talks about, but over 7 lessons and several challenges that will indeed challenge everything you know about line and drawing, especially boxes, construction, and form intersections
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This lesson goes into the skills needed to draw the fundamentals, and how that relates to drawing figures.
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A deeper dive into the fundamentals and what it takes to get better at them.