0:00 you should be drawing boxes rotate a box in space be focusing on drawing simple volumes things like cubes cylinders spheres this is the most expensive mystery box in the world boxes learning the box is one of the most important things you can do when making art I'm sure you've heard from many artists before that one of the first things you should do if you want to learn art is to learn how to draw the box and if you haven't well I'm telling you that now upon hearing this however I know there are many different things you could be thinking of at this point on one hand and some of you could be thinking well why why is the box so important how does drawing something as simple as a box get you to the insane level of art that you see everywhere else is this just a scam that art schools and other pros make up to just make us waste time and lessen
0:45 the competition or you could be thinking that you already know how to draw boxes and you're a box drawing Pro I mean it's so simple you just make a line here then there then there and there and there and then you're done I mean how hard can it be well I'll just tell you now that if if you think this box is perfectly fine then you need to watch the rest of this video and finally we have the people who already know kind of a lot of the Box Theory and are just wondering how to improve their boxes from where they are right now or how this box stuff will apply to their actual drawings well this video is my attempt at answering all of those burning questions starting with why boxes matter how they work and working up to some Advanced perspective in box applications so grab a Sketchbook Block in and let's get started
1:31 so what's the big deal why should we care about boxes or at least care enough for it to be the first thing that we practice while there's a plethora of reasons I would boil it down to two main things the first reason simply being that boxes are well simple in the world of art where there are so many theories and ways to draw things like you can make a head like this or this or screw it all and just do it by intuition environments Anatomy lighting color all of this is very overwhelming for people just starting out and to be honest practicing any of them too early on won't do you much good and so here comes the Box perfectly simple everyone knows the box is and what it should look like drawing it is very fast and allows for a lot of attempts and irations the measurements are easy to memorize and
2:17 think about once you learn them and the application for them goes much deeper than beginner artists first realize it essentially acts as a very good foundation to build all of your other art knowledge up on top of the second reason is that it's the fastest way to level up some of the most important fundamental skills that you'll need to draw pretty much everything else in your life the first and biggest fundamental is perspective boxes are the first and simplest introduction into drawing in 3D going from flat images to actual objects that you can perceive in space and with that you can use it later on to map more and more complex shapes into perspectives that I'll get into later in this video then there is construction placing m multiple objects in the same space while making it look like they
3:03 exist together is not as easy as some of you might think and as the sides of boxes are aligned with each other by the nature of it being a box this makes it much easier to align in perspective than say a human body which is also why it's used to align things like human bodies and finally something just as important as perspective or construction that's often overlooked is that boxes are the easiest way to level up your visual or observation skills this is crucial when it comes to making art observing other people's art or even just perceiving the world around you in a way that helps you improve at Art let me break it down like this from this video onwards the world is Minecraft I'm not kidding as of now you need to perceive everything as just
3:48 a collection of blocks just like in Minecraft this thing on screen I don't know what it is but future editor me will figure it out blocks this other thing more blocks everything you see from now on you either need to turn into or put a perfectly fitting box around it then we need to take it in what perspective is this we'll get into that later what viewing angle are we looking at it at how many sides of the Box can we see this is the gateway to analysis and truly learning from your surroundings so how do we get started with boxes the first thing to understand is that the most you'll ever see of a box is three sides of it you'll see one side when you're directly facing one part of it you'll see two sides when it's only tilted horizontally or vertically and not diagonally and then
4:35 you'll see three sides of it when it's rotated somewhere diagonally you'll never see more than three or else it just wouldn't be a box the next thing to understand is what Vanishing points are this goes back to what I said about these boxes being wrong or bad the problem here is that they have no Vanishing points so let me explain this a bit we all know the basic outline of let's say a building we know that it's very Square rectangular however in reality or this picture these are far from simply just squares why is that well it turns out that all lines in a space converge to a point something we like to call the vanishing point and in order to turn 2D into 3D we as artists need to take that into account and draw our boxes or things in ways that connect
5:21 them to Vanishing points and with that we can segue into perspective and perspective grids uh I know perspective grids I mean who who even cares about this stupid perspective thing why do I need to know how to make a grid just to draw a simple I don't know anime girl or Pokémon or something well let me tell you what if you don't know how to draw perspective grids or want to use them way less in the future learning boxes is actually going to be your best friend because once you know how to actually draw a box in any perspective you can essentially use that box as your perspective grid and Skip most of the well grid part but in order to learn how to skip perspective grids with boxes you still need to make boxes in those perspective grids so sorry not sorry there's no avoiding this
6:07 fate here is where your experience is going to start to affect how you practice so here's a couple of suggestions if you're stuck on a level here seriously do not try to skip to the next one practice on the level you're at there's not much you're going to get out of trying to make a five-point perspective grid when you're having trouble just doing a two-point perspective one and another thing is to please please please please do this with references it's alarming how many artists I see trying to learn a new thing like boxes in A New Perspective and then not have a simple picture of what you're making in front of you how do you expect to know what you did wrong if there's no correct answer to base these things off of so again all of this practice is best done with references always all the time seriously all it takes is one search boxes in 1 2 3 4
6:53 five point perspective to start making boxes start in one point perspective make a point drop lines protruding from that point in all directions and that will be the main vanishing point that all the lines will converge to horizontal and vertical lines in this case will stay parallel with each other this B's onepoint perspective actually pretty simple and honestly it shouldn't take more than a few days or like a week to get it down but with two-point perspective grids things get a little bit more interesting to make this grid make a horizontal line and put two points on opposite sides of it the lines leaving these two points will be going towards each other other don't bother making lines outside of that as those boxes won't be in the right perspective now both the horizontal lines and the lines from the onepoint perspective grid
7:38 are going to be going towards one of the two dots or Vanishing points and sure it may be easy if you're drawing directly on the lines but once you start guesstimating these lines to the points that's where the real difficulty starts to come in but essentially that's it so next we have three-point perspective take the same grid from the last one and add one more point on the bottom with the lines going towards the other two points now every line is converging to a vanishing point this warps the lines and your boxes and can get really wacky and interesting but again it all comes back to Simply making sure every line is going to the same point that you put on those grids now this is where we start to get pretty Advanced so strap in and let's talk about fourpoint perspective
8:25 add a point on Top just like in three-point perspective grits and now every line will curve to the point opposite of it creating some real weird shapes however fourpoint perspective is not used that much and even I haven't put that much practice into it honestly because weirdly enough fivepoint perspective is much easier to grasp and more widely use so I would say to practice fivepoint before going to fourpoint perspective grids but anyways for fivepoint perspective put the onepoint perspective grid inside the fourpoint perspective one and now with this amalgamation of a grid the object right in front will be facing towards you but with every side curving towards one of the four points this is where you start to see some of those time lapses of people doing crazy perspective drawings they're doing it all in
9:11 fivepoint perspective which is also used for fishey lens drawings but anyways after you think you're confident in five-point perspective go back to the four-point perspective grid and now instead of boxes facing you you're now facing their corners and that's it all of the prospective grid levels using boxes I forgot to mention this before but one way to gauge if you got one of the perspective grids down and you want to move on is by simply drawing those boxes together without the grid and then putting a grid on top of it to check your work if it's accurate then I think you're pretty much good enough to go on to the next one but just because you can do a higher one doesn't mean you're too good to do one point persective or anything they're all important in their own right I'm still doing 1 2 three
9:56 point perspective grids even though I already know how to do four and fivepoint perspective ones man that was a lot of boxes but to summarize a bit we went over why boxes matter one because they're simple to learn and two because they help with a lot of the basic fundamentals we then went over advantaging points in drawing boxes in perspective from one to five point grids and with that you should be set on being able to draw any box you want from any perspective with enough practice and then you should be able to move on to doing more complex things like constru objects or doing different shapes like the cylinder I hate those things in the same way that you did the boxes I hope you guys learned a bit about boxes or perspectives that you didn't already know or who knows maybe you just enjoy watching videos about
10:43 drawing boxes that you already know how to draw don't worry I've been down that rabbit hole oh one last thing thanks for the 10K I can't believe we even got here I mean I would have been ecstatic just at 10K on that first 1,000 days drawing video and now it's at 80k and I don't even know what to say about that and I I mean I just can't believe it I would have never imagined myself doing stuff like this even just like 6 months ago or something so really from the bottom of my heart I thank all of y'all can't wait to make more content that you guys will enjoy road to 100K I want that check mark and I'll catch y'all in the next one
