Drawing Lesson: How to Draw a Box

Series Summary

From the time of the cavemen, drawing has served as a primary method of communication and expression. But it wasn't until paper became readily available in Europe during the 15th century that drawing masters such as Leonardo da Vinci showed the world what amazing things could be done with simple lines and shapes. Ever since, a growing number of people have embraced drawing in its various forms and fields: doodling, sketching, cartoons, caricatures, CAD, architecture, engineering, building, planning, inventing, 3D wire modeling, motion capture—and the list goes on.

In these intermediate drawing lessons, learn how to use sketching and perspective to transform simple shapes, such as turning a rectangular prism into a cylinder. An expert will help you understand how the cube and the prism are jumping off points for modeling real life 3D objects, mainly through creative ability, practice, and a bit of Euclidean geometry. In each drawing video, the expert will walk you through step-by-step, not only focusing on modeling, but also on shading, light, and shadow. Not only will you learn how to form complicated shapes from basic ones, but also how to add depth and dimension to your work by understanding how light and shadow interact on several surfaces.

Video Transcript

"OK, so, let's draw, since we're going to make a sphere type object, what we're going to do is I'm going to make it like a tube like, some sort of like, pipe. So we're going to make one side short, keep it nice and square and the other side we're going to make it longer, so let?s do that. OK, now we have our basic box, let's draw the backside of this guy so we, so we can have all the construction lines ready so we can see everything that we're doing. Just like the same as we always learned from last time, if you watched the other videos, same thing, just kind of at this point it kind of turns into connect the dots. OK, so we've got ourselves our box."