The Perspective Course
Understanding Perspective(35 Lessons )
Intro to Perspective
Materials to Spare You Pain
Depth Tricks and Old Masters
Intro to Forms
Orthos and One Point
Bonus Lessons
Mastering the Skills(0 Lesson )
The blob approach simplifies drawing form by starting with loose shapes, building depth, and refining perspective.
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Li Ming Lin
10d
Started practising the Blob Approach with a few simple blobs. At first I struggled a bit because they didn't look right, but got better many blobs later.
This exercise also made me realise how good Peter's suggested drawing warmup routine was in one of the previous lessons (the warmup where we drew lots of straight lines). I can see (and feel tbh!) how wonky my edges are when trying to draw a box around the blob, even though the edges are so short. I think if I had done the warmup at the start, my edges could have been straighter.
Lin
17d
I feel embarrassed that it didn’t click til yesterday that xyz is perpendicular (and also the corners of the boxes). I *knew* it at the back of my brain, but I wasn’t applying it for some reason, just focusing on converging. Did a bunch of these and even though they were converging reasonably they felt wrong and melty. 🫠 And I realized it was the angles. And then space started making a little more sense. I guess this is the value of repetition and practice vs theory. Love this class.
Vishal Hudge
20d
Practicing, experimenting, and having fun to understand the process
Sandra Salem
20d
I started the blob Approach and is definitely the opposite of what I learned. Really interesting. I will keep practicing later this next week.
So I used the toy plane 3d model from this course to study the proportions and how to use the blob approach accordingly.
@sstinson
20d
long time no post! Just finished an arduous living process and trying to get back into the routine, so here is a blob approach page, including a from life sketch of an external hard drive in the top left. Any feedback will be appreciated! Soon moving on to the airplane forms.
Guadalupe Belgrano
24d
The Blob Approach to Form made some things easier and others more difficult for me. To begin with, I drew a few blobs, then tried to trap them in boxes. Afterward, I tried to understand the shape of a character I had previously painted in watercolor. I find it difficult to understand the direction and shape of the ears, as they are twisted. Then I drew three blobs, turned them into characters, and tried to understand their shape by drawing them in another position. There are still question marks, but I trust I will be able to solve them later.
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20d
These look great! I love your onion-shaped character sitting in leaves. :)
Sita Rabeling
24d
Just a few of my drawings from practicing blob-to-box. I don't think I got this yet. Sorry for the messiness; in the second image I tried to work more neatly.
I lost some time these weeks with figuring out how to rotate boxes exactly and I'm starting to understand the trick with grids. I couldn't let go of that puzzle.
Now that I went back to drawing simple forms for this lesson, I see that those are hard enough to master. Maybe estimating is harder than measuring.
@b1egun
24d
Here’s my attempt for today. I know the lines could be more consistent, but I focused more on understanding the topic 😊
Miqdad (Mick Dad) Ali
24d
The BLOB approach!
I enjoyed this! I think that because the blobs weren't very intimidating to draw I was able to get many more repetitions in and improve how I fit my boxes around them and how I was able to use my contour lines to show their shape. I focused mainly on drawing various boxes in the beginning and as I gained more confidence I started exploring more complex shapes. In particular I really enjoyed drawing more "wormy" looking blobs like the ones on the bottom of the 4th page. thinking about the convex curve pointing away the same direction the object points away was another really useful cue for me!
towards the end I felt like everything was beginning to get a bit messy as I added convex and concave contours on my blob and then fit a box around it too. I used different coloured pencils to help me make the different objects read more clearly, but I don't think that helped much. Does anyone have any tips they would recommend? I know its slightly off topic from perspective, but I would like to know how I can layer more onto my page in a decipherable way so I can kind of comment and elaborate on my perspective drawings a bit more.
Jacob Granillo
25d
1/26/25
I’m used to drawing boxes, so boxes weren’t much an issue for me. But the hexagons on the dumbbell challenge my skills.
Some of them I notice my mistakes. As I draw from memory then use the item as a reference. I was very close to the perspective of the object! (All done free hand)
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20d
Great work, Jacob!
Shayan Shahbazi
28d
I tried to warmup with these blobs, they feel so free and give confidence after you dance with them on the paper, actually I used to draw boxes to start my warmup for the day, but this is so much fun, gives me easier persuasion of what I want to be far or close.
Bas de Vries
28d
Did some blob perspective drawings, due to bad lighting it might be a bit hard to see. Also did some warm-up lines on the same page as the book drawings.
Espy
29d
Decided to do the blob approach after the last assignment, That warning at the start made me laugh out loud. Really would have helped me to watch this before doing the last assignment.
This is a much faster approach to drawing boxes than I'm used to! In a matter of a day I was able to draw 2 pages worth, where it would have taken me much longer if I tried to estimate the vanishing points for each and every box. The note of just letting the lines fly for now really stops me from overthinking; I'm really thankful for that.
On the second one I wanted to test myself and see if I could put multiple forms in the same space near eachother. Wasn't focused on making things right anatomically or making any interesting shapes really, just wanted to play around with what I can do with the blob approach and see if I can get the beginnings of stacking form on top of eachother. Neat stuff!
@lieseldraws
29d
A bunch of boxes, some from blobs, others not.
While it wasn't easy, last year's box exercises from the Proko Basics course helped. Nothing impressive, but it wasn't as challenging as the first time around. I'm hoping this means some improvement, however slow. I so badly want to improve my perspective skills so I can observe and draw forms better.
Until then, one box at a time!
One thing I've struggled with the blob approach is that when I start with blobs, my contour lines are off. As mentioned by someone else in the comments, contours are acutally ellipses..and I've realized that I don't really know how to draw them in perspective according to the kind of box I'm picturing. So drawing boxes straight-up (and not from blobs) feels easier to me. Is this something that I'll get better at once we learn ellipses? Any feedback would be appreciated! Thanks
Ishaan Kumar
28d
Are all of these freehand?
Ishaan Kumar
29d
I tried the blob approach to drawing objects in front of me. The blob isn't that visible but it's there, I swear. The first object is a jar of rusk, the other 2 may be me getting slightly ahead of this course and myself and drawing 2 vehicles at an automobile exhibition I visited.
@lieseldraws
29d
Hi, these look amazing! I love how you drew from life :)
I'm curious - did you sketch on location or took a photo and drew from it?
Donna Milligan
30d
Blocky fingers leave me at more angles than I'd have bothered with just bobbing
@20arnasdrawing23
1mo
Pretty fun exercise. I'm just
noticing that my lines are off
Michelle Johnson
1mo
Learning the ellipse on the blob from the previous video is meant to be a slice/cutoff and not just a contour helps so much. So do the tips about convex edge pointing away and the arrow.
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30d
Thank you Michelle – I feel the same way: a little key to big form.
Donna Milligan
1mo
Doing Handuary in Dorian's Drawin Dojo and Boxing them up
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30d
Thanks for showing, Donna!
Anthony DeGennaro
1mo
Here is my work on this. I struggle with perspective a lot and I was really hoping that this course would help me. I still am struggling with it all, I cant seem to draw a box correctly at all let alone rotate it. I have probably drawn thousands of boxes in an attempt to learn different aspects of it all. what do you suggest I do going forward? Thanks
Daniela
29d
So while this course is not there yet, it is important to mind your own feelings, if your personal goal and what would make you happy right now is to draw a box correctly, then I highly recommend watching some drawabox videos, maybe following the lessons there too. It's good to look at multiple sources and explanations for things either way, hearing teachers say it in different ways makes the image more complete
Example of drawabox tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evGWbjDI6xQ&ab_channel=Uncomfortable
I hope I'm allowed to share this here and it's not disrespectful 🙏
Andreas Kra
30d
@Anthony DeGennaro
First of all, your boxes look good Wso far! One small adjustment I noticed is some inconsistency in determining which side of the box is closer and which is further away from you.
You can think about the three main directions in which the cube points, represented by its sides. For small objects like a dice or a toaster, we can simplify and assume the lines in the same direction are parallel. However, this isn’t entirely true—when dealing with larger objects, those lines will eventually converge at vanishing points.
To make the concept of these three directions more apparent, I came up with an overly detailed way to visualize it. Imagine a sphere inside the cube with three arrows extending in different directions. These arrows can act as guiding lines to help you draw parallel lines in the same direction.
That said, I wouldn’t recommend constructing a cube this way every time you draw. Once you get comfortable with thinking in these three directions, you’ll be able to eyeball it more confidently. Still, it might be helpful to color-code the sides of a cube once or twice to reinforce this mental exercise.
I know how frustrating it can feel to be stuck on a learning plateau and not see the progress you’re aiming for. Hopefully, this explanation was helpful in some way! Keep going—you’re on the right track!
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30d
Well, first of all Anthony, who said anything about drawing a box correctly, let alone rotating it? We have that coming up much later, and with great rigor.
This is about drawing a box, not correctly, but with some sense of dimension that you have achieved here; and in different, even random, positions, nothing like precise rotations.
This is play! I suggest you keep up the simple sculpting. If you're not learning what you hope to learn, you can design your own custom challenges, or just follow along here. We are headed there.
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