The Perspective Course
Understanding Perspective(73 Lessons )
Intro to Perspective
Materials to Spare You Pain
Depth Tricks and Old Masters
Intro to Forms
Orthos and One Point
Orthos and No Point
XYZ
Grids
Eye Level
Bonus Lessons
Mastering the Skills(0 Lesson )
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Let's explore how Kim Jung Gi visualized everything as 3D boxes to draw freely and accurately from imagination.
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Jay Nightshade
25d
Very interesting. Thanks for posting this, Marshall.
@ashfin613
28d
Hi Marshall,
I'm not good at explaining myself, but here it goes.Drawing inside the "box" does that mean you are literally drawing inside the box or is it that you are able to draw a box around the subject and it making sense and matching up with the vanishing point? The reason I ask this is because I find when I try planning my drawings out I struggle. But when I'm loose with my drawing my finished product comes out better. It's almost like I'm using a different part of my brain and I get into more of a flow state and don't see reference as it is, but in shapes. I break things down into small bite size pieces. I also find drawing organic shapes easier than mechanical like say a car or plane.I guess what I'm trying to say is planning for me isn't second nature.
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18d
This sounds like the curse of a blessing. When you have a gift for one kind of drawing, it can be hard to shift into the other kind. You see shapes – that's valuable; some people don't notice shapes. You like to flow rather than plan; that too has its value.
Learning perspective challenges those natural comforts. If you can take it on, and get some of the value of "the other side," great. If not, you're giving it a shot, and I hope it will do you good.
Regarding "inside the box" or "boxing around the subject," I hope I've given you some concrete examples with the two arrow demos that followed this.
The big lesson is that to navigate our "pretend 3D space," we need guidelines to point out directions. Carving in, or building out, or inventing around... those take a lot of work, but that work can't be done without something to carve into, build out from, or invent around.
Therefore, the box!
Jonatan
28d
Note: The spanish and english subtitles around Marshall's and Kim Jung Gi's interview break a little bit.
Great video, it's great to hear it from masters how it all starts with the basic concepts, a lot of people think that masters are free of them, but in reality they've been drawing so much it's just part of them now.
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18d
Yes, when XYZ become so assimilated into an artist's eye and brain, they hardly think about them consciously anymore, the way musicians hardly think of individual notes when they jam.
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26d
Thanks for the heads up! I'll pass that along to the publishing team
Nancy Yocom
30d
Wow! That was a great interview. I’d love to see inside of that man’s head more. Boxes everywhere. I’m going to commit to drawing boxes everyday until I can see them better in my head. It’s so sad that we lost him to soon. Thanks for showing us this.
Mal
1mo
Excellent! I saw a snippet of this interview in another video and was hoping I could find it. And here it is!
Ron Kempke
1mo
Visualizing boxes is elementary compared to visualizing what's in the box. That's the real issue and it's usually glossed over by drawing instructors. What do you say, Marshall?
Dermot
1mo
Marshall thanks for sharing the Kim Jung Gi interview on Boxes with us.
He proved you don't always need to think outside the box to be a master.
I believe he was unique in his ability to manipulate and imagine all his artwork detail
in the manner he did.
To think it all started with boxes.
Tony Sandell
1mo
Shame we lost him . Love his T-shirt
Dennis Yeary
1mo
interesting I assumed it wold be more complicated. but boxes
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1mo
Well of course it is more complicated, which is why you're working on navigating within those boxes for this project.
And some of you are finding, as you work, that simple form is no easy task!
This little clip was to hear it from the master: that without the box, one cannot think in or out of it.
Stevie Roder
1mo
Thanks so much Marshall on giving us this treat of a bonus lecture with Kim. I still miss him so it was great to see him again. I managed to befriend him with my trips to comic con through the years little by little showing him my art whenever I made something new from college when I was taking art classes at the time. Was always such a delight on him sharing how I could improve on my art on the pieces I took with me. So this was such great joy to watch.
@ashfin613
1mo
Hi Marshall, this lesson is very inspiring! I would love to have yours and Kim Jung G talent one day! 🙂
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I Write, I Draw, I Teach
Korean sketch artist, and member of Superani. Known for his memory, and his ability to draw detailed scenes from imagination.
