How to Draw People With CONSTRUCTION - 5 Super Simple Baby Steps

[@jamestrickingtonIII]

It took me year and a half of consistent figure drawing to be able to really comprehend how to view the human body in terms of boxes/basic shapes. The concept in itself is fairly simple, the hard part is training your eye to see that simplicity.

[@cam7686]

this is really helpful information, thank you. It makes me feel better about still being confused after 6 months of drawing people

[@debbiesunlight7047]

Yes that’s what he’s saying.

[@Amelidylle]

It's so helpful because you explain it very well. In general, tutorials just say "draw a box" but they don't teach you how to "see the box". I can't wait for upcoming videos because I'm having a hard time "seeing" the boxes in the human body, especially in complicated poses.

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks, glad you found it helpful

[@pawlutsada8935]

After a lot of gesture and anatomy lesson things are a lot easier.

[@nommable]

Your road example was FANTASTIC. I'd draw an ok stick figure and then try to jump straight to a complex body with lots of nuance and then wonder why it looked all wrong.

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks, glad to hear you found it useful :)

[@Powerphail]

What a fantastic example to show how construction and abstraction works! Students are often expected to understand right off the bat why these abstractions are used, but just taking that extra little bit of time to explain the reason we use these intermediary steps could help to clarify things massively. One of the biggest breakthroughs I've had with drawing is that the vast majority of it isn't actually about the 'drawing' at all, but rather how to see and think about your subject. I wish this was emphasised a little bit more at the very beginner levels because it could save so much confusion. Really thoughtful demonstration, thanks Kenzo!

[@leo1500]

Trying to figure out the construction have been helping me to see the figure beyond it's contour and being more aware of foreshortening. What I've been practicing isn't for complex or anatomically correct figure drawing, but to help me take the picture I have in my head and translating it to the paper, so then I can refine it and seek for a proper reference. I've been doing timed gesture drawings with a set of references, usually adding at least a box to define the hips and then without the reference I try to build the mannequin with simple forms. I still haven't figured out how to make a figure drawing out of it or use it to study anatomy, but it's serving its purpose so far.

[@lovelifedrawing]

that's great Leonardo! that's a fantastic starting point. anatomy builds over years, no need to rush all that

[@mcaro5908]

Definitely helpful, you have a knack for figuring out how to communicate complicated ideas. I've actually been having trouble trying to explain this recently, will be sharing the video 👍

[@lovelifedrawing]

Glad it helped!

[@madmanzila]

Hi man, i like your grit with this channel ... everything helps, with small tools and concepts to absorb slowly. appreciate you doing allot of this work and I feel that allot of these are spread all over the net but people that are wanting to draw and have the passion for it WANT it now and cant handle the emotions of pulling through a process of learning... baby steps is good, tracing is good to begin guiding your hand through figures, anything to begin populating the mind banks with patterns, problem is that everyone wants to do fantasy drawing directly and thats what frustrates them. Keep on it

[@noname-codm4590]

madmanzila Thats why i subscribed lmao

[@lovelifedrawing]

i totally agree and love how you put it. anything to populate the mind banks!

[@jimquim1574]

This was me before and now im good at boxes proportions and hands

[@piadraws9360]

Thank you so much Kenzo. Lots of love from Germany

[@agnesdegrossouvre8895]

Very useful, thank you. Will have to start training the eye to see these 'boxes'.

[@ShenaniganCat]

Thank you so much. It's a hard lesson, bet rewatching and practicing helping indeed.

[@sharonriley4297]

Thank you for the exercise very helpful makes me want to take some paper and practice thank you again and I look forward to your next commentary

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks, great to hear you found it helpful!

[@sampokemppainen3041]

Not only boxes when used right, are good method to realize perspective and mass, but it is really damn fun also.

[@rosiem2418]

Thank you Kenzo for explaining the use of boxes. I am now finding this most useful.

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks, pleased you found it a useful exercise.

[@ScilexGuitar]

I think its great to also do arbitrary forms like these from imagination and manipulating them, really helps with creativity and is also a great warmup

[@majdshammas7624]

great job... the wiser figure drawing video I ve ever seen .... and i have seen a lot

[@strom99nonce]

Superbly on point, very useful. I liked that process very much !

[@lovelifedrawing]

Great to hear!

[@arisamblues]

thank you so much!! love your videos

[@lulamidgeable]

You explain difficult technical issues well and always manage to simplify them understandably.

[@lovelifedrawing]

thank you!

[@sallyvince9476]

Very useful. Keep up the good work. Your teaching style is very unique and easily understood. And very calming. Thank you

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks, always great to hear people find our videos helpful!

[@sylvain_st_pierre_2019]

Pretty much everything helps on your channel Kenzo. A few months ago i did start using boxes and it does help but for some reason my brain forgot about it. Thanks for shaking my neurons.

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks Sylvain. Always happy to help with 'shaking your neurons' haha!

[@VeryBlueBot]

cool super useful thanks!

[@CarrotCakeArt]

The road example is practically how computers learn too. If anyone is interested, it's called principle component analysis. So that is a proven, computer tested way to learn anything.

[@MrPaulabrady]

Absolute beginner here. Anything that helps me build the range of tools at my disposal is good. Simple is good, training my eye to see planes and shadows/light is good. Good stuff again - thank you for the effort you put into this. It really helps me to keep going too!

[@lovelifedrawing]

Great to hear Paul, thanks!

[@freemanjohnsonjr3121]

This was very good lesson , had problem with boxes this help a lot . Thank you

[@Omarcomics911]

Thanks so much for your help

[@lovelifedrawing]

thanks Omar appreciate your support!

[@w00olf]

🥰 you explain it very well

[@Rholmes987]

Wow! You have a gift of teaching, Kenzo! I've never been able to see the figure in boxes because I thought everything was supposed to fit in the box! Your "straight line" example to simplify the complex road was phenomenal! I literally said , out loud, "AHHH!"

[@arbisinoimeri7477]

Great commentary on those very strong concepts! ⭐⭐⭐

[@lovelifedrawing]

Glad you think so Arbi!

[@arbisinoimeri7477]

@@lovelifedrawing I also do Love Life Drawing!🤜🏻🤛🏻

[@adama6559]

Hi Kenzo where can we get info about the upcoming September course?

[@lovelifedrawing]

Hi Adam, i'll send it out via our email newsletter. enrolment should open around 2nd week of September and then the 6 week course will run from middle of September. i'm really excited i think it's our best one yet

[@peterthoem]

It was very helpful and clearly developed

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks Peter!

[@Isaragh.86]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. It was enjoyable and helpful. Really help me. Thank teacher 🌹

[@ginny6365]

Egg and box. Very helpful!

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks Virginia, glad you found it helpful!

[@arindommazumdar371]

Nice and simple tutorial 👌

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@anartfuljourneywithroberty3784]

Thank you 😁

[@gemmat2931]

Yes, helps me a lot

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks Gemma. So nice to read your comment. Really glad to hear that you are enjoying the lessons on here!

[@antiblabla1208]

always watching your videos, even if this one was a bit too simple to make a whole video of it in this length... but its part of learning process also!

[@lovelifedrawing]

thanks for the feedback! i tried not to rush through as much in this one because i felt like some of our other videos sometimes try to pack in too much. experimenting, learning and improving!

[@TheMightyWumbo]

It’s confusing at first but it does help a lot

[@PaintingsandBL]

Thank you so much for this video.

[@bobbuckwald9118]

very useful!

[@Bunuffin]

i used boxes to learn mainly perspective, boxes really helped me a lot, and yeah... i spent 5 days learning anatomy xD

[@defdac]

Is that an Izumi Kogahara-print on your wall behind you?

[@lovelifedrawing]

no it's an original pastel drawing by my mum Mayko! i do like Izumi Kogahara too tho!

[@defdac]

@@lovelifedrawing that's awesome! I really love that style.

[@chispenzcree242]

what tablet dose he use?

[@saltytree729]

i can draw figures with boxes and cylinders all day any pose from imagination, ask me to draw an arm and i cant even place the tricep correctly without it looking distorted i have no idea how to even go about what muscles to learn first or where to start or how many repititions to do, but i think anatomy is way harder than form and wedges and foreshortening!

[@scottybrown5772]

You brought me from 2D into the 3D

[@OldEnglandCathedral]

Cool

[@andreyrojasmadrigal6940]

This is really helpfull. I think the main problem with constructing organic figures from more "rigid" shapes (boxes) is the capacity of abstraction of each person, reason why some might find easier to draw the silhouette not minding the overrall shape in itself. However, i think you've found a great way to simplify a complicated subject that many will find usefull.

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks Andrey. It's always a real challenge to simplify complicated subjects so I'm glad to hear that you found my explanation helpful!

[@bananabike279]

Flatten the curvs, I wish more people would do that in 2020... Jokes aside, very helpful video!

[@safir2241]

your cute smile is curing my depression

[@yopomdpin6285]

I really don't understand what people find difficult in that =/ In fact, NOT using boxes and cylinders is much more complicated for me with all those bumps and twist and bones...

[@lovelifedrawing]

i think different things comes naturally to different ppl. i definitely found this idea difficult, once you start finding boxes in the torso especially

[@maadenramos2068]

Sick more pls

[@slingy7009]

I wasn't aware that Noel Miller was an artist lol

[@danielscott5756]

yeah i say boxes are more planes than the actual form you are drawing

[@Zoolane763]

I don’t find this video simplified the use of boxes to draw figures. He only simplified the use of boxes to draw boxes.

[@usnap.1754]

second

[@totalme302]

What are u saying, my whole wrist is flat

[@Le_Ilta._.official]

FiRsT

[@user-be3ck5yv5v]

L a s t

[@sueizzard4358]

Thanks Kenzo your reading my mind , just started using the box method for portraiture, really helpful as was your video.

[@lovelifedrawing]

Thanks Sue, glad to hear it was helpful :)

[@oscar_jgr]

"we need to find da wae"