Proko - Project - Blob to Box

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Project - Blob to Box

Stan Prokopenko

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Stan Prokopenko

Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.

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LESSON NOTES

If you struggle imagining boxes and drawing the angles correctly, it might help you to start with a blob! Here's a simple project that will help you improve your visualization skills, making it easier to draw forms in perspective.

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ASSIGNMENTS

If you struggle imagining boxes and drawing the angles correctly, it might help you to start with a blob!

Level 1 - Blobs to Boxes

Start with a Rough Shape: First loosely draw in a 2D shape that represents the size, placement and tilt of the box.
Indicate a Plane: For example, if you're looking down at a character, draw a simple oval to represent the top plane of the torso. This doesn't require perfect angles or a detailed box yet. Just an oval in the area where the top plane should be, and roughly the correct size.
Determine the Twist: To understand the form's orientation fully, you need to indicate the twist. This can be done by drawing a line that divides the front plane from the side plane.
Refine the Form: With the basic orientation of all 3 visible planes established, you can start refining the form into a more defined shape. The rough blob with the 3 sides will help you imagine a box. Now use what you learned in the previous lessons to draw the angles with proper convergence.
Finalizing and Cleaning Up: Optionally, you can draw over the rough box with a black pencil and clean lines, fixing any errors. This step allows you to do an additional step of refining the drawing.

Level 1, you don't need to draw the torso like I did in the video. Just draw individual blobs to boxes scattered on the page with varying sizes, angles, and twists. This exercise will help you slowly improve your visualization skills, making it easier to draw forms in perspective.

Level 2 - Blobs to Boxy Torsos

Practice a few blobs to boxes, and then move on to doing exactly what I did in the video. Draw a head, rib cage, and pelvis in various poses. The additional constraint of human-like proportions and the boxes interacting with each other makes this much harder.

Deadline: Submit by 04/19/2024 for a chance to be in the critique video!

Ivan B

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This was a fun project! I'm really eager to dive into figure drawing and eventually start designing my own characters in future. Any feedback is greatly appreciated

Robin

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This is such a great exercise and very relaxing

Jonah Jenkins

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17d

I consider myself a level 1 student, but I had a lot of fun attempting two other humanoid box people and slowly getting a firmer grasp of 3 point perspective. Looking forward to the rest. All feedback is welcomed!

francesco zanardini

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18d

This was a really fun exercise. I took a break for a couple of months after the perspective module, and getting back into illustration with this exercise was both fun and productive. As always, I’d appreciate any feedback ✌🏻

Rain Kipper

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25d

This exercise was very motivational, bringing bits together. Loved doing it!

Tanjiro Hisana

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28d

Here are my box to blobs. I wanted to text my knowledge with the robo bean from the anatomy course and also study composition in a film I really like. These were very hard, so please point out any wacky mistakes that my boxes have, because I am not sure if I'm thinking about these concepts effectively ✊🏼

Sabyasachi Goswami

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2mo

Submitting for the blob to box assignment before Demo. Looked pretty easy but hope I didn't make it too easy for myself.

Rio Paloma

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2mo

blobs to boxes based on one of the figure drawing pose packs that i forgot to save... i had more pages of blobs from imagination but im struggling to find those.

@squash

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2mo

These were fun.

K. Williams

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2mo

Well suddenly I forgot how boxes work lol

Chuck Ludwig Reina

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2mo

Nice work. Getting used to using the box for the rib cage is tricky. The actual rib cage slopes down in the front where the neck inserts, so the top of the box is actually where the back of the neck hole is. I attached a little diagram showing what I'm talking about. Remembering this will help a lot because you wont stick the neck out of the top of the box, which is something I used to do all the time! Again, nice work. You're crushing it.

Darren

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2mo

Using the blob to place stuff in perspective before committing to line.

@goobish

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3mo

I enjoyed trying box to blob as a way to quickly not out perspective I think this encourages me to experiment more and be less granular about exact perspective which I enjoy

Ghost

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3mo

Blob to box exercise, it's certainly challenging to think of organic forms as boxes, but these exercises help me a lot with understanding plane changes

Petar Ristic

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3mo

This was a fun mini project - kept it loose and tried a couple different angles

@etin

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3mo

Started by being too much on the inside, but trying to push the boxes to the outside and make them actual bounding boxes it seems to get better.

Jacob

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3mo

A couple of attempts. I’ve come to realize that I have no idea how the human body moves. These were from imagination, but I saw a few folks use some references, so I may give it another go like that.

Jacob

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3mo

Jacob

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3mo

Ágúst Strand

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3mo

@kotka

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3mo

For me it is a lot easier to imagine boxes on blobs, especially for the human figure. In some of my figures the proportions are off and the boxes don't look like believable faces. I think this is because I wasn't very mindful when I drew the blobs, and some are simply too wide or narrow to construct a believable box around. Even blobs need to stay within reasonable limits for this to work. In the last three blob-box figures I was more cautious and they turned out better I think.

Benjamin Gustafsson

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4mo

Here are some submissions!

Carlos Javier Roo Soto

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4mo

Surprisingly, this torso boxes where harder to do when I was looking at my reference as oppose to the ones I did before from imagination. I think what happened is that I was too fixated at capturing the anatomy instead of finding the perspective. What do you guys think?

Chuck Ludwig Reina

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4mo

Nice work Carlos! One thing to also keep in mind when you're looking at a photo like this is there is a lot of photo distortion. The perspective gets really extreme when you use a camera this close to the model, which can make it hard when judging the boxes. But I think you did a great job. Keep it up!