How I Draw Boxes - 250 Box Challenge

[@buffkangaroo3765]

Just did my 3rd rewatch of this video, it's extremely helpful, the next 237 boxes are going to look awesome!

[@komayo]

How’d they go?

[@buffkangaroo3765]

@@komayo They went great, was a very productive time in my drawing life. I took a break from DaB after lesson 3 a few months ago, but I'll definitely get back into it at some point.

[@buffkangaroo3765]

Also I can't stop doodling boxes in perspective and trying to make them look correct lol

[@komayo]

@@buffkangaroo3765 Great to hear

[@ahuman32478]

@@buffkangaroo3765Great work 😊

[@ashmitatamang]

just completed 250 box challenge . and while roaming around i just saw this video . seeing her how she carefully plotted out each dots and how carefull she is . its making me feel like i did it all wrong

[@solosisas1764]

Just improve :)

[@christpierre]

@@solosisas1764 :)

[@rebeccawilliams6548]

Ahh thank you so much. I've been finding it so hard to draw through my boxes. The outside lines up correctly, but as soon as I tried to draw through, all but one of the inner lines would converge correctly. Haven't been able to improve for about 6 pages and it was really bugging me. For some reason, I didn't think about ghosting all lines again to double check they still converged. They felt right at the time so I didn't think the other branches of the Y could change it so much. You're amazing!

[@rebeccawilliams6548]

Ahhhhhhhh! My first box (139) came out right and I had to happy dance yayyyyy

[@ScyllaStew]

Wow, congrats! Keep it up. The halfway point is usually when things start to click.

[@hollyray5312]

Thank you! The first two times I watched this I was completely lost, but after struggling through the first 30 boxes - I finally get it! Progress, albeit slow.

[@theeternalgus9119]

Thank you for taking time to make this video. You have been clear and you have provided valueable insight.

[@ScyllaStew]

You are very welcome!

[@wendycrauwels5970]

I just tried my first 5 boxes yesterday and they were awefull. Like I forgot everything learner before. So happy I found this video!! 😀

[@thenamesandounts9807]

Okay so let me get this straight... 1. You draw the initial Y 2. You plot an additional Y behind it 3. You join the two Ys together

[@En0834]

This video is so helpful, thanks for sharing!

[@mavrickindigo]

The parallel marking of the tics isnj't in the "next 50" page of the guide and I think that really helps make things make sense.

[@hollyray5312]

THIS! I have been wracking my brain over this point. The top corner of the box does not extend directly from that line but parallel to it. And that my friends, makes all the difference.

[@sulynncho9299]

Amazing thank you smuch

[@TommmmmyP]

At 6:00 you've drawn the right most vertical dotted line to the wrong dot, might want to add a correction to the video so people don't copy the same mistake, this was the reason the red lines weren't close to the same vanishing point.

[@stephenc909]

She corrects it 3 minutes later though, by not following the red line when putting in the solid edge of the box

[@FFabianoFonseca]

awesome. i am following your videos. thnks

[@literallynustiu]

at least i saw this at 40 boxes in , threw them all gotta redo it all .

[@ArtHaker84]

It's so much easier if you draw the base or top first, you should try it out.

[@yusefandrews6620]

Thanks for this tip, it was very helpful. Would you say this is a good technique for producing dramatic foreshorten boxes? I find this tech spot on for shallow foreshotening, but when aiming for dramatic, i have a hard time figuring out the points of the outline of the box

[@yusefandrews6620]

So after awhile at taking a stab at it, it's possible and fine. Just takes some getting use to when switching from unconfortable's method to this one.

[@v.kalyaneswar9696]

My 250 boxs are completed, now im redoing lesson 1, waiting for your next video!.

[@kristiyanlalevschann]

I thought we are only allowed 1 dot per line. If thats not the case then this game changes on a whole-nother level!

[@Lawkycie]

yes finally ! thank you !

[@look-left7192]

im on the 250 box challenge and after watching this i feel like I have no idea how to draw a proper box, and why mine are coming out terrible.

[@ScyllaStew]

Whenever you feel lost it's best to go back and carefully reread the instructions and try breaking down everything into smaller steps. This way you can take your time and make sure each step is being done properly. The good news is no one really "fails" drawabox. You can only ever improve. But when faced with 250 boxes a lot of people feel overwhelmed and sometimes the mind tries to take shortcuts to save us from stress. This makes the work come out worse and stresses us out more. (Also don't forget the 50% rule, which means you should be taking breaks and having fun) But it's okay. 250 is a lot of boxes. Which means a lot of room for mistakes and improvement. Even if you only improve a little by the end, that's better than 0 improvement or quitting altogether. So remember, take your time, break it down and if you need to, take a break.

[@John_21601]

LOL...me too. I thought I knew how to draw a box...evidently not. I’m already confused.

[@hat_maker]

Das a good box

[@ScilexGuitar]

Great video :)! One thing I do is to always make sure the lines dont diverge, thats the first thing I prioritize. Rather forshortened box than incorrectly drawn :)

[@TheMaskedThearpist]

man ive been mindlessly drawing boxes so i feel like I'm doing this wrong lol

[@LantraAntero]

But it's completely different from the method Uncomfortable shown in his video How to draw a box 2...

[@lilmeowmeow667]

Doing this to all 250 boxes sounds like torture, I'd probably be done by the time I'm 10 years older but the result is a lot neater I'm conflicted, do I have to be neat with it?

[@jamieg2427]

I'm curious: Why do you make those tick marks parallel to the Y lines? It's my impression that they should converge with the Y lines rather than being parallel. I love your process though and will experiment with some variation of it. Thank you for the video!!

[@ScyllaStew]

So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This applies mainly to boxes that have vanishing points that are far away. If the vanishing point is closer (on the page for example) then the angle from which the middle lines leave the vanishing point is much greater and will make the middle lines appear less parallel. The method still applies to boxes that are closer to their vanishing points. Most people appear to struggle more when the vanishing point is far away though, that's why I did it that way for this video. You can look at this diagram to see what I mean. i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png

[@jamieg2427]

@@ScyllaStew Thanks! I've been keeping it in mind to make the line close to parallel, which has been pretty helpful. For the 250 boxes, I use the Y generator someone made and then randomly assign deep or shallow foreshortening to each axis (like, I'll let lines along the x axis be shallow and then y and z might be deep), so I definitely get plenty of close vanishing points. However, I think the randomizer I made favors far varnishing points by 60%, as Uncomfortable recommended on the website to focus a little more on shallow foreshortening.

[@banjo416]

Just a question, when you're trying to project a paralel line from the dot at 2:55, it´s because the convergence point is too far away? or because those two specifically lines ( and the other pairs) needs to be parallel?

[@solosisas1764]

I'm sure it's because of your first option. I mean all the 4 lines should converge but those 2 are so close that they look like parallel for our human eyes but they're actually not parallel, just look like parallel :) And by the way. I think in the real world and not just human eye, they are actually parallel but since it would be infinity I guess the vanishing point is just a representation of that... Wow :v

[@noodlery7034]

Is that diagram Uncomfortable's or yours? I think I can remember it being on the site a while ago. If it was I wonder why it was taken down

[@ScyllaStew]

I'm not sure which diagram you mean. But the site had undergone some updates this year. So if something is missing it would be because it's been determined to be outdated or unnecessary.

[@abunchofemos-kn4sm]

is this a tutorial on how too draw boxes any angle

[@CrayTechTV]

10/10

[@CODBlackOps6WALKTHROUGH]

how do you draw your boxes? can i ask you about it :D

[@MA-zo3cm]

Hello. Did you develop this system yourself after drawing so many boxes?

[@misteriosdobingbing5138]

It’s not a system, she’s just eyeballing perspective

[@chrisblanc663]

I wonder if there is a 250 circle challenge to help us make better circles.

[@leevilpantsu4462]

Draw 250 circles

[@djan71]

There's a 250 cylinder challenge at least

[@abdelrhman4360]

Why all of them, don't sure about any thing

[@karolisk8314]

How to know where is the front of the box?

[@lazy2835]

The first y shape you draw is he corner facing you. the 3 planes attached to that corner are the front of the box

[@cesarespinoza4863]

jajajajaja stop for questions xd

[@Zimbob1201]

But...how do *you* draw a box? Lol jp thanks for the vid!

[@georgeflecknell]

Anyone else feel physical pain for the knib of that pen?

[@johenmasi]

I thought it was gonna break

[@machinayrequiem8596]

6:08 That line is not correct because when you first laid in your dot you arbitrarily plotted it without ghosting to the vanishing point of the middle solid line and the left vertical dot you plotted. After you plot two point on one side like you did, go ahead and draw those lines. Everything else you plot can go off those lines and you should have the box drawn very close to accurate. Youre trying to do them all at the same time which is making it harder.

[@KhaledMHamed-un7vk]

It's amazing how i get this technique by my self in the 7th box 😂

[@coyotl23]

I recommend u to watch the moderndayjames ...u will improve faster

[@sendirLP]

Such bad Attitude though, wow, nobody forced you girl chill

[@Uncomfortable]

In all fairness, I am *kind of* forcing her to go through Drawabox. See, I don't have time to do all these live drawing demos, soooo....

[@sendirLP]

@@Uncomfortable I mean, you cannot really force someone to do something unless you mean that you litterally put a knife on her throat, In any other case since you actually proceed to do something like that its defenetely better to not have a such an attidute... Nevertheless For me to to judge is still kind of hypocritic since i bet I can also act that way.. Have a good one guys!

[@nopejoeandangie]

@@Uncomfortable All of my boxes using the Y method come out kinda elongated. Any idea why? They didn't look this elongated with the 4 point method

[@Uncomfortable]

@@nopejoeandangie Not sure what you mean by the 4 point method, but the Y method isn't about producing cubes - just rectilinear boxes. Meaning that there's nothing in place to keep you from matching a particular proportion.

[@nopejoeandangie]

@@Uncomfortable By four-point method I mean your method of doing 1 point perspective boxes in the earlier lessons. Those boxes came out cleaner. I'll subscribe to your patreon and show you some of my work when I get done with Organic Perspective and the 250 challenge

[@rajeswariv1240]

Please make the videos short and precise with to the point instructions. It seems like you don't prepare yourself what to say in the video .And I am barely able to listen to what you are saying. Pls don't take this review in a negative way.