Critique - Control Depth on Paper with a Simple Box
Critique - Control Depth on Paper with a Simple Box
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Michael Giff
Thanks for your time and impromptu therapy session... all the therapist in my area have some kind of restraining order against me.... can't imagine why. I'll be sure to draw 10 cubes a day as a warmup and just focus on getting the lines to converge... also I'll try not to be so stressed out about it.
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This lesson trains your freehand skills so you can draw boxes in perspective without relying on rulers. We focus on the most important rule of freehand perspective. You must avoid receding divergence. You will learn how to identify the closest corner of a form and ensure your lines converge correctly as they move away.

We also tackle foreshortening and how to handle awkward angles by making them deliberate. Rotating shapes in your imagination takes time to master. This lesson breaks down how to build that spatial awareness step by step. You will learn to see planes as shapes and estimate proportions accurately. This practice builds the exact foundation you need to draw complex forms in 3D space.

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Marshall Vandruff
Mastering freehand perspective requires letting go of perfect cubes. Learn to build your spatial imagination by sketching freely while avoiding receding divergence and understanding foreshortening without the anxiety.
M C
2mo
i’m going to redo a 100 boxes before moving the horizon around!!!❤️❤️
Max Long
2mo
Thank you Marshall, for your critique. This was a great assignment that I will continue to do in the future. Also I would like to commend everyone for submitting their awesome assignments. I feel really honored and appreciative that of all the submissions for this assignment that you chose my submission to show several different goals and purposes of correctly drawing cubes in perspective. Thank you again!
Lin
2mo
Thanks Marshall :3 Great job, everyone! If anybody is feeling perspectively adventurous while we await the next assignment, will you help me not crash out 😅 by advising if her far wing would be visible in this scenario? (Apologies for the mess, Yuming study WIP). I tried to show in the second pic how I visualize her wings sticking out but the curves and diagonal slants on top of the overall perspective have me overloaded…
Dooby
2mo
Thanks so much for the critiques Marshall. And btw that tongue twister was a solid 11/10. Holy moly absolute insanity that was
Ron Kempke
2mo
The best way, the only way to see it as an accurate cube is to repeatedly draw it from a model until you have internalized its image. Anything else is guessing but not actually knowing. Seeing it as a cube enables seeing comparatively accurate proportions of foreshortened dimensions.
Stevie Roder
Amazing job on everyone that made the critique video as always. It's alwasy great to hear whatever your infortmative tips you bring us as well with each one Marshall. The Cubes were a great loads of fun and so looking forward onto what the rest of the excercises Part Two will bring us this half. So Looking forward to it and will input these criques we recive at mind as I practice my drawing skills. Also I hihgly love the appreciatation of the hidden gem of adding me in the vido as well. :D
Dermot
2mo
Marshall, thanks for the feedback. It was tough going. I've taken a fresh look at the others I posted and many of them Wooosh too. I'll keep at it and look forward to the cube lessons to come.
Sandra Süsser
Great work everyone! :) @Sandra Salem Awesome work with the ellipses! Gotta try this too! :D @Marshall Vandruff Thank you very much for the insightful critique as always! And I think you'll be surprised how far our hyper-focus can go lol. All hail the cubes! :D
Sita Rabeling
Thank you so much for the critique Marshall! On your personal story - well, I used to be very shy, so I prescribed myself to present a radioprogram at our hospital radio station. Had 2 (live) programs, easy listening and 30’s-40’s music for 1,5 years. I didn’t get over shyness completely, but I survived. And I’m still not very good with words, but as you know sometimes there’s more in silence. As a dancer I wasn’t shy on stage, the moment of performance. To compare ballet training with practicing cubes: I hope somewhere in the future to be able to choreograph and dance, express on paper, what is in my heart. So thank you again for this course :) And what a good place to be within this lovely community, I learn so much from all you geniuses here ❤️
Michael Giff
Thanks for your time and impromptu therapy session... all the therapist in my area have some kind of restraining order against me.... can't imagine why. I'll be sure to draw 10 cubes a day as a warmup and just focus on getting the lines to converge... also I'll try not to be so stressed out about it.
Espy
2mo
Have you heard of krenz crushart's method of studying cubes? Something that helped me out a lot when I first started drawing cubes was studying how krenz using ratio from flat squares to slowly plot out where edges and points should go. Here's a video that helps explain the concept. https://youtu.be/FEyoaEibF08 And it helps that after you get used to it you can slowly let go of that method and then begin experimenting freehand with it while still keeping those rules in mind in the back of your head. Sometimes having more structure can help out with things that can feel so abstract and limitless at times likes cubes can often feel like.
Stevie Roder
I'm the same thought myself, I also plan on continuing to practice drawing freehand cubes to, till we get the next assignemtn lesson. Not a bad strat there Micheal.
Sajal Khare
Is this the critique of 100 box challenge? I wish i had the premium!
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