Go from drawing BOXES to BODIES

[@Vyloka]

Pikats like that cool aunt we all wish we had growing up for real. The way she breaks things down for artists of any knowledge basically is such a high value

[@sonic8005]

I would say for me kind of like the cool friend in high school who wants to help you learn and does better than the art teacher lol

[@figard9855]

real

[@Mienshaos]

cool aunt is a strange way of looking at it, she's more like an older sister

[@halospidergeekkid]

I’ll say she like a cousin

[@Blazecutter34VX_Cz81]

Fr tho 😃😃😃

[@lefeshh]

Boxes is life, life is boxes

[@liveinamber1307]

And yet the universe is all circles... deep

[@NoodlesGoodFr9]

Box

[@mawcha]

life is roblox… box…

[@lockm7380]

Life is like a box of chocolates

[@kyubizu]

Box is life's final destination

[@DashMan-g7z]

Step 1: Draw boxes Step 2: Spend 2 years learning anatomy Step 3: Draw the rest of the owl well, good to know I'm doing it right, just gotta keep the grind.

[@JayDay04]

What I like about your videos is that you follow a logic on what to learn and what to do to learn those things. Most art tutorials that I see just tells things as they are and don't actually teach you how to practice. For example, a common art tutorial about boxes would just say that you have to draw in perspective, but wouldn't actually show you those lines and diagonals and proportion techniques like you did. This is why I like your channel :) please keep it up!

[@xRaiofSunshine]

Yeah, a lot of tutorials are like “just do the thing!” And I’m always like but How??? ☹️

[@snvlpkinq]

5:25 that is actually S tier technique, thank oyu!

[@albarnombradia6345]

I was just thinking about how to draw the human figure with boxes, and youtube recommended this to me What a unique coordination

[@sonic8005]

@@albarnombradia6345 sometimes the recommendations can send ya to a cool channel

[@desquolor]

I am grateful for the cube (and by extension basic forms, lines, and ellipse practice). It is the great filter where you get to see Dunning-Kruger in full effect.

[@Idk_496]

Felt so motivated and un- intimidated by it all, but the SECOND you mentioned I STILL need to learn the ENTIRETY of anatomy, I gen. don't feel like trying. Every time I hope that I can learn something, there's always another entirely different thing that is WAY less simple and WAY more tedious. I just wanna draw things good, not have more homework to constantly worry about😭

[@Scaryland42]

same

[@Ksdmd]

I think people forget that when teachers tell you that "you need to learn anatomy" it doesn't mean first thing first learning every muscle and all that in medical way. This means that you need to learn the proportions of a person and the "shape" of muscles and body parts. And then, only those that are on the surface of the body. This detailed study of all muscles and their behavior during body movement occurs only when you have studied the "base" of anatomy. so don't be afraid to start studying the human body)

[@blu3traash]

If you learn form and perspective you can draw whatever you want You don't need to master every inch of anatomy to be an artist

[@KitsunekoOwO]

I know it looks intimidating but you really don't need to know every bone or muscle. The most significant thing you need to know is where the muscles and tendons connect. That alone makes a huge difference already.

[@UltimateHeroDuh]

Thank you for giving the context behind practicing basic shapes that I wish I got ten months ago.

[@inky90]

Insane timing, I’ve been searching for this exact thing

[@dulguunshallot1018]

0:50 WHY square undies are the best

[@zacke.1286]

Brand new artsy guy here. I audibly went "HOLY CRAP THATS SO COOL" when she showed how the box perspective thing worked.

[@Olivia-zl9dv]

this is so well timed 😭

[@abdouplay]

just from your "avatar", I knew instantly that you're gonna cook something

[@yasXD]

OMG I NEEDED THIS VIDEO TY SO MUCH!!!! srsly, last week i was complaining to my friend that whenever i went to search for tutorials to draw perspective it aways say to draw the body as 3d shapes, but i only knew one way to draw a 3d shape (like 0:13) 😭😭😭 im going to save this video to finish watching later, but the beginning has already helped a lot :DD

[@asaltyem0826]

as someone whos been drawing for only a few years and is looking to improve this was massively helpful. i was genuinely taking notes so I can move forward in improving my art. Thank you!

[@ell-e8q]

just what i needed actually!

[@Carra_Mell0]

I was stuck on drawing the human figure beyond just boxes and honestly this helped so much. Thank you ❄️

[@batattitude]

Everything you want to draw is either a box or can fit inside a box. And if you can use boxes for perspective, then you can use that box to place not-boxes into perspective.

[@ameszingartist]

THANK YOU PIKAT I always learn so much more from your tutorials than any class I took in school. Like extending out boxes and WHY every drawing class made sure we knew how to draw boxes. Thanks for ur tutorials 😊

[@rippy4260]

I love that I can still use my imagination to do the box manequin, sadly adhd nerfs it by imagining 7000 things every second

[@Rumplitschka]

BOXES, BOXES, BOOOOXESS!!!! Seriously though, thank you for putting this in perspective, I'm lucky enough to have a teacher who provided me with these methods early on, but it's sort of enlightening to see someone else's approach and how everything chains together, you explain really well!

[@TokikoG]

Somehow you posted exactly the video I needed, exactly at the time I'm needing it. The very next day I discovered your channel. Almost scary. I've seen videos about fundamentals of perspectve but they didn't show as clearly the whole process from going to those basis to actual drawing of people and how "No, it's not because you stop drawing the boxes at some point they are useless"

[@Ludovit110]

Will you have a survivor's guilt when I told you some of us struggled for years or even quit before realizing what was said in the video? ;)

[@krsmanjovanovic8607]

This video only proves that EVERY young artist should start with Draw A Box course, I still shiver whenever I remember HUNDREDS of pages filled with overlaping long continuous lines, rectangles with elipses, and even BOXES, its like artist's Vietnam but now I can confidently draw forms in perspective/3d space and lines with full control, this may not seem like much but its sooo good when such basics stop troubling you so you can free up your mind of those and put it to solve actual dificult fundamentals!

[@claudiolentini5067]

I don't argue that Draw A Box is a great way to learn perspective and the fundamentals, and that it might be good for some people But I always wonder why is the only course that uses this approach of drawing the same two things over and over and over again Personally, I took a look at it, and I dread the repetiveness of the exercises Even with the 50/50 rule they suggest, I can feel people ending up dreading perspective after a couple weeks

[@krsmanjovanovic8607]

@@claudiolentini5067 Look at it this way: You REALY love drawing, right? Now prove it to "her"! Or you love eating salad? Then nurture a garden with vegetables you want in it, or work some job to earn money for it, either way with everything thats worth it there is a sacrifice or strugle you have to go through before you can "harvest" the rewards, Draw A Box is the best for drilling those VERY basic fundamentals so they become a second nature while you climb the steeper rock that deserves your focus much more!

[@bocahdongo7769]

You can do so much with the boxes Because boxes don't leads to anything until you actually grind the hell out for actual anatomy part for every perspective.

[@bocahdongo7769]

​@@claudiolentini5067For you specifically, I suggest you to switch to Michael Hampton. If you think all intermediate to advance anatomy drawing is just goddamn drawing random line until it actually exist, he's indirectly confirming it. Because very first lesson taught you to do super rough drawing with curve as GESTURE instead.

[@claudiolentini5067]

@@bocahdongo7769 thanks for the suggestion Where can I find his course ?

[@danielcalencar]

If I can give you some feedback: I loove these videos in which you show a glimpse of the hard-work you go and went through. It leaves me inspired to deepen my studies more and more.

[@justmedidi]

this video was a nice reminder that my efforts in doing DrawABox were well spent even though i didn't finish the course. the first lesson is very helpful and i still do the warm ups regularly. pikat adds onto the information well here. i always struggled to draw bodies in perspective, but now i understand how to better use boxes to guide myself after being confused for so long heh

[@JayChase-x1w]

perfectly articulated instant follow this helps out lots especially the part on continuous angle to get the same size boxes in prospective

[@JRL-19]

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for, thank you!!

[@dizzyhungry]

So cool of you to make approachable videos about boxes 🙏

[@YellowYellowColour]

Very useful Pikat, thank you very much, plus your OC/model is so beautiful 1‼️‼️

[@MyNamesHunter75]

Imo if you are starting out better to use boxes then add spherical forms inside the boxes to then add the muscles on top of later down the road this also helps you better place your spheres in perspective and actually gives you a solid idea of where it's going as I know when I first started getting into anatomy I was not good with cross contours and showing their form with them (they always felt flat) so I found what worked for me was box then sphere

[@kahl452]

Your last boxes video has me actually drawing people who look like people! can't wait!

[@Gen-o3j]

Learning boxes is like learning the alphabet. It feels like a far shot from getting to the creative part, but it sure does add to the end result if you learn it. Edit: You are literally the first one I have stumbled across who actually put into the words the connection between boxes and anatomy. I can find instructions for the two separately, but no one really put into words how to connect them. Thanks for sharing.

[@tosstt9936]

accidentally clicked thinking it was a 3D model poly modeling video, now i can draw what witch craft is this

[@kiwura]

Love your explanations every time Pik, thank you.

[@Gamegamergamerino]

only now I have realised that you have drawn my most favourite wattson fanart...

[@mccaine1]

Thank you so much for this! It is helping immensely!

[@SuHISKgeroto]

To be honest from my experienced when I started year ago I said "Boxes? I can do that! Studies? I will learn frop practise" and here we are, doing anathomy studies and finding them fun as hell as well as wanting to try learn more about boxes. Hell, more you start digging into something more you realise that there are more to "dig" to.

[@yex2presents56]

Thank you, just thank you ❤

[@williamandres-e8w]

1:36 I'm the only one who thinks that the things on the trousers look like chicken feet I always thought so and I thought they were chicken feet xD

[@shikinananya]

Amazing video like always Pikat! These DOVA SYNDROME songs are throwing me off due to the amount of vtubers and vtuber clippers I watch haha

[@Wesed35]

As I've been trying to git gud at art, it's funny, Pikat always seems to upload the exact thing I've been trying to learn, right when I need it. It's like magic, or as if she's reading my mind with psychic power, or something, lol.

[@purpletrauma]

I've actually been making progress on my boxes lately once I started trying to pay attention to the 3 vanishing points, and understood this stuff already. At least in concept; I'm not very practiced at it yet. Right now I'm more interested on why my lines are so wobbly on the tablet. I may check your videos for that; your explanations are the ones making these concepts finally click for me.

[@actuallyhard315]

Okay but your art was so good even before the boxes mam

[@kosty0281]

You are quite the inspiration, good work!

[@Picaro_12]

Oh my god I have been waiting for this video for so long

[@anthonycadette]

super great video as always

[@purpletrauma]

After two days I've come to the conclusion it's actually the yoga of a learning-meditation routine I've been following that's making things work better. I kinda.. already understand the perspective of 3D boxes already. The issue is I can't control my arms into straight lines. But since I started stretching my shoulders a ton, they've been improving a lot.. like.. day to day. I think it's the rolling shoulders around forward and back in careful mindful movements. At first, really jerky movements. But as I can control my shoulders more smoothly, then whadya know, my lines stopped also jerking into a curve as hard or much.

[@XmortoxX1990]

I stopped drawing for a very long time, I need to re-lern this, so thank you

[@getlifeful]

You persuaded me to start drawing EVERYTHING in boxes! Not only breast and pelvis... I need more love for boxes to improve my proportion and anatomy skills 😂😅 ... Thank you! Nice Video! Love to watch your videos :)

[@squirrel83]

hi Pikat! i just wanted to say i’ve been really sick today and watching this was the first thing i did after wasting away in bed for several hours, and i genuinely feel a lot better now :](mentally that is, i still feel like shit physically) this was so helpful, especially the tip about ellipses- i will absolutely be putting that into practice, ive been trying to freehand them for years and obviously it hasnt worked out very well 😭 tysm for the awesome video :D

[@stevesketches]

I've been doing this for 20 years and it never occurred to me to combine Loomis and Rob Scotterson's techniques to replicate the proportion grid in perspective..... Heckin' heck.

[@adeptgirl3454]

Babe wake up, new Pikat drawing boxes tutorial just dropped.

[@XPISigmaArt]

Tonight is box study night!

[@untitlednobody9009]

Pikat always managing to drop a video the second I need it 🙂‍↕️

[@THE.EVIL.MAGIC.PUMPKIN]

Each time when i watch how to draw video my mental health go down(great video btw 2 minute in and is already great)

[@Blazecutter34VX_Cz81]

Thanks for the advice Pikat 😁😁😁😁😁😄😄😄😄😄

[@silvermiyazato7767]

I never thought i will need to watch this video,woww,new knowlegde achieve

[@izakiko]

THIS IS THE MISSING LINK! YOU’RE MY HERO

[@goku_dunker_420]

Currently trying out both the bean and box construction methods and they're both a doozey in their own way, definitely worth giving each an honest few shots. Bean feels more organic but more directionally lost in space, whilst the box has the opposite problem. I wonder if there's a sweet spot between the two.

[@ennuiwolf]

Perhaps you could show the faces of the bean when you draw it? As if you're sculpting a box into a bean form?

[@SupiSuki]

Math Teacher: told you, just wait until little Johnny buys those 250 watermelons

[@Vagabond_unit]

0:44 GOD DAMN

[@anmolsingh4026]

your video saved me

[@meshaalsalih1433]

the timing is crazy just as i was struggling with this

[@ThOnlyHamForYou]

I started just understanding anatomy first... Yes it takes too much time but I think worth it. Boxes are like guides so I just use it for guidelines

[@FruitBatX3]

Pikat was there when we needed her most...

[@Gibbs_300]

Super useful video

[@SplatzicYT]

Thanks, i'll try it

[@BARKZIM]

I understand how to draw the body as boxes, and it helps me with perspective and stuff, but I struggle with going from boxes to like.. body shapes.. and noone ever talks abt that

[@muffiindoesarts5368]

And thats where the fundamental Construction enters! Along with the knowledge of Anatomy as Pikat has mentioned in the video, you have to study anatomy individually, although its a bit tedious, eventually you'll be able to turn boxes into body shapes!

[@zday9516]

thank you for being innumerably better than my highschool art teacher ♥

[@SUTAZZZ]

Wait the drawing circles with boxes was kind of mind blowing...😭

[@johntetazoo9848]

love this

[@SrGex]

the problem for me is that I do much much technical drawing, like mechanical parts and things like that, so basically everything has to be precise, and when I try to make perspective I don't to the vanishing point because all my line are parallel for the problem of isometric axionometries

[@jackcartersmith]

In fact... I really love drawing boxes! I should really consider consulting :P

[@Lenorven]

Thanks i need this Tip and Expansion ❤

[@VegaVibing]

Oh wow, something just clicked. Now I need to practice...

[@olive0002]

This video scares me from how intimating this seems 😂

[@Kīīng-Skull]

Thank you Yellow Pokemon Sister (! v !)

[@NiNa-ls1zd]

Thank u❗️

[@zakutskov]

Good, now you're thinking with BOXES!

[@maokai09]

Thank you

[@MegaZayd1]

the best thing about anatomy for sculptures is how easy it is to pirate

[@nedfaither205]

It was very useful to me thansk

[@lordwarryl5712]

I skip boxes, and stubbornly refuse to learn them, her voice compelled me to do so, time to draw Boxes!!!!

[@Fawnxo420]

even tho i’m not digital this helped a lot, thanks

[@Ludovit110]

@pikat Thank you! Can you possibly do more videos of you "squarifying" the models so we can have some reference to fall back to and correct ourselves? I find it really challenging to see the correct perspective of the geometric forms in human body. Either way, this is super useful and I wish I knew this like years ago. Also, 8:15 - is it just me or is that package monstrous?

[@DP_fail012]

I use circles and lines and it works for me

[@Trimexia]

You must learn the way of the BOX fellow artist... 'tis a journey we all must undertake...

[@July-gj1st]

Checking that my cube is good: > It looks like a cube ✅ > Extend each set of parallel lines to see if they converge to more or less the same point. Me a mathematician trying to learn art: B-but... they never will... and never should... > Panic So, should I always be drawing my cubes in 3 point perspective?

[@mawcha]

PRO PIKAT POST!!!

[@leetinpot]

my problem is putting the bodies in the boxes in perspective. it never works and always makes it harder to do and makes it so unnatural looking 😭

[@bombie5549]

just learn perspective while drawing multiple shapes on top of each other

[@wideleczek]

Think about where the faces of your box and the body are. Yes, bodies have faces. Even spheres do have faces.

[@bocahdongo7769]

What I've found the solution. You need to stop draw a boxes a little bit and just go gitgud with directly drawing the each anatomy of body in perspective. If you can draw each part in any perspective, then start incomporated box with anatomy. ME? I just dump it all in the trash and change from Loomis to Hampton. Because he's right, anatomy drawing is just make up shit until it exist, and he really hammered it down from very beginning (instead of page 92 on Loomis).

[@ilias_moujahid]

When i was a kid i mostly drew cars I guess it helped me to "kinda" skip this exercise

[@اغصانشجرالجنه]

I'm not so good at drawing but these perspectives are so easy for me😁

[@k0metz590]

This is where all the minecraft drawings from 1st to 5th grade pays off

[@lil_eon2732]

love pikat soo.. much 😭 been looking for someone who explains the box theory properly, thanks a lot Noona

[@BeeR_BoI]

"Just use a subdivision surface" ahh moment.

[@figbloppa7183]

Everything in the entire universe is either a box or not a box.

[@Darkeesaa]

0:45 okay but are we gonna ignore the think he is packing?

[@ImNotAWall]

When i starred learning anatomy i always used circles for the upper body. Thet might not be the most efficient way, ALWAYS try boxes

[@defaulted9485]

I legit thought this was a Spongebob joke only until I tried it myself and regretting my stupidity.