Understanding 3D Cartoons by Drawing a Table

Video Transcript

"Okay we are going to go a little more in depth in our three dimensional study. Right now I am not going to draw the three lines of the room yet. I am going to wait because I am putting my table in first. Now I am going to make a diamond shape for my table. Now try not to think of it as diamond. Try to think of it as a real square but it is slanted because you are not looking directly on top of the table and that is how everything in 3D life. It's slanted and you know the real shape. But when you are looking at it from a certain angle it looks different and once you get that sense inside of you, you will start to draw more and more three dimensional things naturally. Now here is our table top I am going to take three corners and come down. We are going to make parallel lines. Now this time with the legs I am going to bring the leg a little bit in. I am not going to have it come straight down cause that looks a little too cartoonish. Here's if you look at a tabletop you will see the leg is a little bit in from the corner. And this one I am going to draw a little bit in that way. This one again and I am always being careful to keep all of my angles going the same way. This should be parallel to this. This should be parallel to that. These three should be parallel. And if I am really careful this should line up like a straight line to that. This should make a straight line to that so that we know all four legs are on the ground and you don't have a leg hanging out there. Now I have room for my forth leg. I am going to imagine where it is right here and I am going to pretend to draw it down and it looks like or I could use this line to line it up. Looks like it comes down right about here. And there is our fourth leg and again if you are not sure look at a real table and actually copy a real table. It will be really sloppy and messy don't worry about it. Just get the idea in your head how these lines work."