Drawabox Lesson 1, Part 3: Boxes and the Absolute Basics of Perspective Projection

[@Uncomfortable]

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[@threlo]

The student 3d model is magical

[@Uncomfortable]

Legend has it that there’s a video clip of him twerking somewhere on our discord server

[@DestBoyYt]

​@@Uncomfortable ayoo

[@Deretythe]

3:50 small correction: you don't actually need binocular vision for perspective to be relevant. One eye is enough, or a single camera, etc. A perspective drawing can really only show one eye's POV of the scene. To actually reproduce binocular vision, you would need two nearly-identical images from slightly different viewpoints, which is how 3D movies and VR headsets work.

[@DesertManHutt]

It was a funny claim to make when you can demonstrate the opposite by just closing one eye and looking over a sheet of paper

[@eddosart]

I am very glad these videos got an update. I have to say, this has been an improvement in terms of clarity and simplicity, specially for subjects hard and dense to navigate through, like perspective.

[@EM-xr1jp]

Heyyy, I just started Drawabox recently (just finished the Rotated Boxes exercise yesterday) and was a bit sad to see that there was no new videos for a year, so this makes me very happy!

[@Linwe13]

My brain felt like a mush, but thank you for making this understandable.

[@badfoxlab]

not sure if mentioned elsewhere in the comments, but I feel like it is worth adding that axonometry is widely used not only in games but also in architecture presentation / visualisation a lot

[@duettoduetto]

Great Timing, I took a week off and felt overwhelmed with all the information packed in the former 30 minute video. Now that it´s divided I think I can digest it way better. Thanks for all your hard work!

[@st.altair4936]

Wow, an updated video! Glad I'm revisiting the old lessons! I'm on lesson 2 but rewatching the previous lessons as I'm doing the work, helps out alot.

[@alexmccaleb2152]

My maaan! Uncomfortable! You got new videos?? Man i gotta watch ALL THESE. ❤

[@Retrofire-47]

my favorite kind of projection is 1D. i raised an entire dot once! it had no home.

[@robbinkelly2565]

I'm beginning the boxes segment and this explained the different forms of perspective! Thank you!

[@anabeatrizacostamoreno1346]

I just started this lesson:) This is by far the best drawing course

[@Check_5_]

“Foreshortening” at the end got it feeling like a Marvel post credits scene reveal lmao

[@zox5370]

So happy to see the new videos!

[@pattyyung]

Huh. I had never known about the 3 different drawing things. Just perspective. Thanks!

[@xbxbakla]

[@yuko13371]

Drawbox video ? a great time will it be

[@Bootleginsanity]

I am enjoying the course, but I do have an issue with how sometimes there will be information in the videos not touched at all in the text version. It's mostly a personal preference since it affects the notes I'm taking.

[@Uncomfortable]

While that's something we try and limit, it is somewhat unavoidable - each medium has kinds of information it is better equipped to convey, and the issue with text is that the longer it gets, the more issues it causes in actually having that information absorbed by the student. That's precisely why we insist that it is necessary for students to go through both forms of the material, rather than choosing whichever that suits their preference. On the flipside, videos are not easily updated due to how KZbin works, and so as we tweak and adjust things (you'll run into this much more in the later parts of the course), they're more likely to be integrated into the text material instead. While I'm sure it's entirely possible to do a much better job at this, our resources are very limited given that we strive to release all this material for free, while still structuring it as an education-focused course rather than the more entertainment focused strategies other free resources are forced to use in order to remain salient.

[@Bootleginsanity]

@@Uncomfortable Thank you for the rapid fire response, and that's entirely fair. Like I was saying, it's less a harsh criticism and more something I noticed, and more info is always helpful to have in the art note journal I'm keeping. Also, I do want to thank you and your team for the hard work you do. I will admit the course was fairly stressful at first because I'm hardheaded, but I recently learned from a Walter Staunchfield quote that the learning process "tears down a lot of false pride". I've also come to terms with the fact that I know more than I thought I did and just need a more solid ground to spring off of. Thanks again, and good luck with your personal endeavors!

[@Uncomfortable]

No worries - I just like taking any and all opportunities to explain why we do things the way we do. Honestly I had to go through the same false pride thing myself. It wasn't until I'd been drawing for a decade (mostly spinning my wheels with no structure, no lessons, no exercises, and a lot of holes in my fundamentals), but it took that long because I had to get myself in a position where I could accept what was necessary to be able to pursue drawing as a career - which was to go back to the basics and properly formalize my fundamentals. One could look at that as a decade wasted, but I try to look at it as what I needed to get where I needed to be to get started.

[@lucasmoreira3237]

Thank you!

[@saintxio]

I was looking for a way to draw the croutons on my salad and somehow stumbled on the most epic side quest. Welp. Time to get started 🤺

[@assassinsbleedacwalkthroug9947]

0:49 I am a draw a box graduate. Now I am learning perspective. Which perspective course is that at 0:49? I would love to do a deep dive now :) My forms arent too bad now, its about perspective and accuracy now :D

[@Uncomfortable]

It’s Erik Olson’s perspective master course on New Masters Academy, which you can find here: www.nma.art/courses/a-complete-guide-to-perspective-for-artists-with-erik-olson/?ref=134

[@caswavala9624]

i don’t get isometric projection tbh. how would the perspective projected street image be drawn in isometric projection ?

[@Uncomfortable]

As that is not the focus of this video, it might be better for you to check out other videos that focus specifically on isometric projection, such as this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/goqYgKSBnaqDb80

[@AlexDC93]

"Part3" is listed for this and the other two recent videos. Just a heads up in case that was a typo.

[@Uncomfortable]

Yup, not a typo. All these videos pertain to section 3 of Lesson 1. As the lesson material is to be digested by going through the website's lesson pages in order, it's not really a big concern whether or not the order is obvious in the video titles themselves.

[@braindeadbrick553]

So this is when the course begins

[@caswavala9624]

my brains about to explode

[@Soco_oh]

LETS GOOOOO

[@DLCS-2]

Awesome

[@AyanGohan]

Hey just wondering if i am bad at the exercises and chapters before will that affect my drawings or anything?

[@Uncomfortable]

You may want to review the video from Lesson 0 Page 3 - it explains that there are a lot of cases where you're expected to be bad at the exercises, and that ultimately you need to ignore your own desire to decide whether your homework has been done well, or needs to be redone, based on your own judgment. We are only asked to do the assigned work to the best of *our* current ability (whether that is good or bad), and allow others to decide whether we're demonstrating an understanding of what we're meant to be doing, or whether we need to have those things explained again.

[@iselwyr5411]

Oh hey awesome

[@Erzie0]

please rig the model and become a vtuber

[@Uncomfortable]

Ahaha, perhaps one day.

[@DevTheRay]

This video is really quite compared to the other 2 that dropped

[@meh3128]

Lez goooo

[@oberlurch-handimations8628]

There I am.... Let' get boxing

[@wabbalubbadubdub9713]

why change braaaa i liked the old vid