How to Draw 3D Shapes - Exercises for Beginners

[@user-wt5if6rx8m]

Thank you. I thought I was having a tough time with figure drawing and foreshortening but then I figured the problem was actually perspective and trouble visualizing 3D forms in different angles and overlapping each other. I guess for a lot of self taught artists that’s the problem and we just don’t realize it. Amazing how much progress I’ve made in things like drawing hands just with serious practice of basic form.

[@LoveHope-mi4lx]

Alphonso Dunn is a great teacher on figures. Not to diminish this artist. I just came here

[@Cre-Art]

I put this lesson to use tonight by walking around my house, quickly sketching all sorts of objects and their shadows. There are shadows within shadows, and overlapping shadows. Really paid attention to what I was seeing. Will be doing a lot more of this. :)

[@Aidenashu]

lol me too! Cool tho isn't it loki so fun sometimes?

[@stevenlopez573]

In another video could you focus on how to make “buildings” 3D and where to start from the base up. Corners and all. Thank you.

[@CloudFive555]

A horizon line is the start man

[@haziqwafi6067]

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[@adelinenicholas922]

You explain this better than anyone because you're drawing it as you explain it. Thank you.

[@emiyashirou1858]

I like how engaging your lessons are, it feels like there's a teacher directly in front of you and it definitely helps with immersing in the information being taught

[@LironYan]

So happy to hear, thank you 😊❤️

[@emiyashirou1858]

@@LironYan is it possible for you to make a video about how to draw figures and how to draw them in perspective? I'm not sure if you have make those or not because I'm relatively new to your channel

[@AlecSorensen]

This is helpful. I've been trying to do at least 20 3D shapes a day in my drawing warm-up. In addition to trying to change the angle, I've been trying to transform them by stretching, compressing, or twisting (I find this really hard). So for example, imagine pushing down on the point of a pyramid so that the edges of the pyramid bow out, or pulling on it so they draw in. Or twisting the top in relation to the base. You can do this with cubes, cylinders, etc.

[@LironYan]

I love the idea of compressing, stretching, twisting etc! I try and do that often too. Twisting a box especially can be super hard. I find it's very much needed for when you want to move to tougher volumes like drawing the different parts of the human body. Great job! 💪😁

[@SableManisha3-pq6qg]

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[@lucyramsden1559]

This is really useful! Especially when you did the random shape. My family doesn’t really do art so they don’t know how to make 3D shapes! My teachers suggested this video for my class and they definitely made a good choice!

[@GenerallyKoi]

Incredibly useful and fun

[@Sparkl1ngM1lk]

this channel is such a gem! the way you explain things is MADE for my brain! it all just clicks! I wish I had money to afford your course. Thank you so much for these videos!

[@LironYan]

Oh thank you so so much for the kind words 😊🙏🏼🙏🏼 Happy all the videos here can help people for free!

[@mariahauman6850]

Glad you made this video. My major issue is 3D and prospective drawing. I have been trying to get good at it for years. I decided to check this vid out and I enjoyed the lesson. After I feel comfortable practicing I will watch another one of yours. Thank you

[@clarefriend1376]

This was great. Especially like the random shape. Really help me train my eye. Also loved how you did a quick application drawing the building at the end..

[@LironYan]

+Clare Friend Really happy to hear this! 😊 I try making the "technical" topics as simple as possible.

[@Hjw511]

One of the scribbles actually look like North Korea.

[@Samithecutie]

@@Hjw511 lmao true

[@tannermarley998]

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[@huxleylian8853]

@Tanner Marley Instablaster =)

[@aleagast]

I'm a total beginner and this helped me so much. The abillity to just doodle around is super fun Thx ✨

[@Supermraz]

Hello, I'm Russian, but that doesn't stop me from watching your videos and learning new things. Thanks

[@pvp6077]

I'm at 4:55 and just now finding out why houses are so hard for me. I've only ever been drawing from above or below to indicate left- right horizontal shift. I could not conceptualise that moving on a 2d plane just results in an elongated rectangle. Just parallel lines. Fkn game-changer.

[@kengaherty9475]

Great, former math teacher who loves solid geometry. A cube has all equal edges. If some are long and some short, it is a rectangular solid. Triangular solid is a tetrahedron.

[@flo9473]

you really inspire me to draw!! I love your videos, please continue with the incredible content!

[@LironYan]

Thank you ^_^

[@brainysmarticus]

In your video about the vanishing point, can you teach us how we know/decide where to put it ? Great exercices, I'll definitely practice them later today!

[@LironYan]

Yes, that's definitely a tricky subject for many people (: I'll try to talk about it soon. Thank you!

[@halfpint2000uk]

Yes!!! Vanishing points really confuse me too!

[@richardlumpkin4607]

Thanks Liron. I've been working on my drawing and this helps. Foreshortening and perspective don't always come easy for me but I work at it. Thanks for the video class!

[@LironYan]

So happy to hear! I find foreshortening to be a major challenge too sometimes (:

[@nandomax3]

Triangular base pyramid is a die D4, the one with 4 sides

[@usta028]

thanks this was helpful, I am ok at drawing but when I tried to draw some mecha earlier today I noticed I struggled a bit with the basics (3D shapes). This was a good refresher to get me going,

[@LironYan]

Thank you, happy it helped! 😁🙏🏼 Check out this updated video, I think it’ll really help specifically with Mecha - kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKeWiqmcpNqZaNE

[@mona8055]

Hi, I am new to your channel. Not good at drawing, but I have started to feel that I need to draw something to feel better! Your videos are so good to watch and very encouraging to practise some techniques. Thank you so much ❤

[@angelblohm2171]

I loved this very basic beginner concepts video. My 4th graders I teach religion to laugh at my stick figures. I can’t even get them right! Actually, would you do a 3D stick figure video. For example, arm up in a wave or pointing, or sitting

[@LironYan]

Haha 😂 That’s amazing, thank you! Will add to my to-do list! I’ve been focusing so much on watercolor - I should probably do more drawing in general!

[@kathleenmaulorico7453]

Thank you! This so great! I'd love to see more about learning to show light and shadow.

[@Smash_Moore]

Thanks. I enjoyed your little doodles.

[@ДенисПлахотя-о2ч]

Thanks that you talentedly held attention on drawing theme

[@Rockymtnbloom]

This is very helpful! Would love to see more on perspective. For example, a line of fence posts receding in the distance: isn't there a quick formula on the height and distance of the posts (seems someone showed me one, I have forgotten.) How about the size of people in the street compared to distance and the building perspective? Maybe give tips and the mistakes commonly made. Your videos are really awesome!

[@mandidavis8682]

I find your videos more helpful and interesting compared to all the other KZbinrs I've watched. Which your probably not seeing this since you put this out so long ago but i thought i would tell you anyways

[@shortsmoments933]

Great video. Thank you so much!

[@ansonchan7289]

you really inspire me on drawing

[@LironYan]

Thank you 😊🙏🏼 So happy I can help!

[@dantarradellas7351]

Fantastic. Thought on perspective is great.

[@kathleenm3443]

Getting ellipses to line up. Like a cup sitting on top of a saucer. Or concentric ellipses, like a tire, with hub cap. This is so hard for me.

[@smoothforreal4242]

This helped a lot. I forgot to look at shapes from different angles and draw them in 3D. I kept just drawing the basic one shape lol

[@TheBullylvr1]

Thanks Liron.

[@alampp]

I would definitely want to see shading of contours. I will look to see if you already have a video posted! Great video!!

[@nancysalgado1095]

You’re awesome! This is going to help me a lot. Thank you so much

[@LironYan]

So happy to hear ☺️🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@md.farukuzzaman3911]

nice how-to-do, thanks.

[@susieclay3562]

Great video. Could you please show more about details in the soda can?

[@LironYan]

Will hopefully do a more detailed one soon 🙏🏼😁

[@yashwantdeshpande4351]

Greetings ! Thank you for making things easier to draw for beginner like me

[@zox5370]

Thank you so much! I was struggling really hard to draw box but I didnt just want to copy a photo i actaully wanted to learn how to draw it, this video helped a lot now i can draw a box in almost every angle😂😊

[@gerdiparrott5695]

this instructor is very easy to understand i learned a lot just watching 10 minutes

[@cjfjcudhrhhc2083]

Thanks for teaching

[@LironYan]

You got it! 😊🙏🏼

[@moscowcowboy_13]

That tetrahedron shape, or triangular prism, is actually super common in the natural world. The molecular structure for methane looks just like it and it can be found in all kinds of compounds and structures! It is also known as a caltrop, which is a weapon you put on the ground for your enemies to step on.

[@sajjadahmad8682]

You are the best artist. I learned a lot from your videos. Thank you

[@sharonriley4297]

light and shadow please. I just got a ton of paper that I put beside my chair so every time I sit down I will take a paper and pen and do theses shapes.

[@mohdhanif8115]

Thank you bro, i learn new thing today.

[@LironYan]

Happy to help 🙏😊

[@jamalsiddique8725]

It would be really hlpful if u made a video on light and shadows How to decide shadows with changing light source and perspective

[@bonbons0220]

The pyramid with three sides on top of called a tetrahedron (four sides including the bottom). It's actually a building block for silicate minerals like quartz, so geologists draw a lot of these in school. All that time I was practicing art and didn't know it.

[@LironYan]

Haha fascinating! And I had no idea it existed in nature like that! 😁🙏🏼

[@Deankut]

Proper perspective lesson!

[@vehinhkhoitamgiac2889]

great exercise

[@nathanwilson6183]

Do you ever a full video on how to draw things from different angles(rotating them), forms, people, things in general? thanks

[@zakial6803]

This video made me a better drawer! You have my subscription

[@charlesjaegerisawesome9696]

*artist

[@diamonddusk008]

I look forward to learning more from u.

[@joecurto8803]

I liked it , he presented it great. It was just what I needed

[@sweethomes674]

Excellent explanations 😊

[@lucygeorge5423]

Excellent

[@ivanrappaport585]

I drew a reel of masking tape that was lying on a table. I could not get it right, I repeated drawing it at different distances from my eyes. I think that the depth of the tape was in the wrong position. Can you suggest how to make it right? Thanks.

[@franciscorgonzalez5058]

Great exercise..! Thank you.

[@LironYan]

+Francisco R Gonzalez My pleasure 😊🙏🏼

[@dark_whispervid]

Somehow this is the only yt video that actually help

[@xk_monster]

This helped me make art practice very simple, thank you!

[@thawiseninja1559]

You have this in a playlist i forgot how to draw for project's 👍

[@marlensimard8180]

I would like to have a video on combining the "cube" and the Loomis method so I will be able to draw my own invention portraits in any position, specially in 3/4 vue. I had watched many videos on the Loomis method. I also have his books but one of your video on the cube where you mention briefly the Loomis method combine with the method for a cube had help me a lot to figure how things go. Thank you so much for all, you explain every very well. M. Simard

[@mondogenerator1775]

Ok so I would be really interested in , so like sketches from real life , so if I was downtown and wanted to sketch the area. I would like to see you show a seen see you sketch it the break in back down to its simplest forms . So a beginner can see how to make something complicated out of simple shapes in practical format

[@twthanous]

Since you asked, how about a 3D golf ball shape but not with dimples, instead 5 or 6 sided bumps, pineapple/grenade like for grip with shading and depth ?

[@LironYan]

Interesting, will have that in mind for the next 3d shapes video 😊🙏🏼

[@wayneandrus240]

Thank you. This has been most helpful. I want to draw cars and machinery and buildings!!

[@elimariab21]

thank you! that was very helpful!

[@Peter-wl3tm]

Can you do a in depth fundamental series for beginners and self taught artist

[@tapanfisher6908]

Thanks Liron for sharing this video...You are such a great artist.... And this video is very helpful for me also.. Thank you so much... Proud of you

[@nova-ef2sx]

As someone who has a rubix cube, a triangle rubix and a cylinder rubix, they really help as references

[@LironYan]

Indeed (:

[@mariahhunter8569]

Great video with lots of variety. Would enjoy seeing and doing more of the made-up shapes with shading and shadows. Ready to doodle!

[@Kathy-ku9tm]

Thanks forsharing ❤

[@AyangStudios]

Tanks a lot

[@undercover_idiot]

This was very informative yhank you!

[@y.christine]

this helped ALOT THANKSSS

[@fathmariyadghan728]

Very clear explanation.... For me as a beginner it helped a lot😇

[@furmannchristiane28]

Hi thanks a lot - I have much difficulties to make the first cube

[@lucillemoncrieff209]

Would love to war how a video showing how to draw flowers/plants/leaves from different angles.

[@susamsharief2947]

Shadows and shadings from different light sources

[@Amirh86]

Awesome

[@jayblueguy9932]

Thank you!

[@verde5738]

9:53 A d4 dice has this shape.

[@saysongberhow436]

I really enjoyed it. Thank you.

[@abunchofemos-kn4sm]

can u make a video on how to draw shapes from any angle

[@skepticalmechanic]

Excellent lesson for a beginner like me! Thank you 👌🏻

[@LironYan]

I'm happy this helps 🙏🏼😊

[@roxanner8]

thank you

[@togephile]

thank you ❤

[@yeseniasiri2323]

Please do a floating letter video

[@denisepenta3415]

This exercise is so meaningful to me. I have neuro impairment and drawing these 3-D shapes over and over is pushing me over the hump. I actually "get it." That makes me happy! You have such excellent videos; you're an incredible teacher. Thanks so much for your commitment to art.

[@LironYan]

+Denise Penta So happy you get it 😁I try making these as "accessible" as possible. Most of these concepts are surprisingly simple once you get them.

[@pitysing66]

Thank you for this...interesting and very helpful!

[@windows7backup]

Thank you, It really helps me train my eyes!

[@Joy-rn1ux]

shading and circle and horaizon i want to learn

[@rhondaarthur7585]

Hello Liron, great video, I really appreciate your skills. I'll continue to practice these shapes. Thank you very much and have a wonderful and safe day. 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌

[@Ruby-wise]

Thanks so much, Liron! This is an area I'm needing instruction-and practice- in..More:-)))

[@LironYan]

Happy to hear this is helpful. I'll definitely dive deeper into some of these topics in the near future (:

[@hunter_thespy1233]

Thank you very much this helped me!

[@PedroHenrique-bg6oc]

For the cubes I used some arrows to help me make that perspective, if you are starting with drawing too, I recommend use arrows, are so helpful

[@LironYan]

Great suggestion (:

[@sunitabendre3973]

Yess I enjoyed lot

[@asheshelar1036]

I'm an anime artist and I have a hard time with drawing bodies and the wrinkles in clothing and even muscles ): so could you make a video about anatomy, clothing, and muscles?

[@LironYan]

Will talk a bit about it in today’s video (will do questions and answers, and answer yours too 😊). I’ll also try making a video in the future. This is something I’m learning and improving at every day

[@animalswithrohinth]

@@LironYan noob

[@savagechicken4518]

@@animalswithrohinth 🤣

[@AbdulGhadere]

Please make videos that shows how u can transition a 2D drawing into a 3D and show how the spaces blend with each other to form a 3D

[@lindahamilton2847]

Wow... thank you. I can feel my brain stretching.

[@oliviateston4240]

Thank you for the sharing. Could you pkease explain how to construct 3D boxes when drawing the torso and the pelvis. I still can't construct them in my mind and tracing the correct angle or vue when I want to start drawing. It's rather hard to represent them in your head, first when you see a body. Could you make a tuto for that? Thanks you very much.

[@bipuldas7564]

Thank you.