Warmup - One-Point Boxes

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

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Warmup - One-Point Boxes

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

577

Assignments 56

Downloads 5

Here's a quick warm-up exercise for one-point perspective:

Start by copying the page I drew.
Set it aside and sketch your own boxes in one-point perspective.
Draw these boxes in different directions - up, down, left, right, and into the distance.
Vary the box sizes and dimensions.

Remember, warmups are meant to be repeated for 5-10 minutes before drawing sessions. Also, don't forget about the warmups from earlier in the course that help you improve your straight lines (Straight Taper, Trace the Ruler, Connect the Dots)

hArtMann

Played a bit with the location of the horizon line.

@aeyt

Procreate dreams just released and I’m really excited to play around with animating stuff! As my first exercise I wanted to draw a box rotating. How hard could it be? ( evidently still quite hard)

Christopher Reed

Nice work! I'm excited to start working with Dreams too!

Gannon Beck

That is tough, but great job! Mastering intuitive boxes well enough to do that is one of the best skills to focus on in order to draw from your imagination. Ditto on a tumbling cylinder.

Diana Reid

The wide and thin shapes were harder to do than the average size shapes.

Dermot

Here are some of my warmups. I'm not sure why in some, I lose the shape of the front face as it goes to wards the vanishing point. I start with a rectangle and the front face shape behind appears to look square. All feedback appreciated.

@zionastar

for your last image at least, that you point out specifically it looking square, i believe that's due to the bottom line connecting the two sides being at an incorrect angle. the angle of that line has the left side lower than the right, when it should be the opposite. if you take a straight edge along that line and move it carefully forward to align with the front rectangular box you should see what i mean.

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Scott Diesing

Sita Rabeling

These warm-ups are a welcome distraction (from moving house😅). Turns out it’s very calming. No ruler used. Various pencils.

Gannon Beck

Good stuff!

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onigi *pronunce [on-ie-gee]*

I forgot to do line warmups lately! Thank you for reminding us.

loes roos

I decided to vary a bit with the cubes. No ruler used for practicing too on the lines... The exercise reminded me of my experimental math classes 30 years ago for spacial orientation figures. And the overlap. I love the perspective overlap effects.

Devon D. Yeider

Current warm up. Got a great recommendation from @Gannon Beck to try using a ruler for now till I really understand the concept of the exercise, then using it as a line quality exercise as well.

Mireina

11d

Did exercise inspired by Fabian Ayala post here today. Wanted to add some shapeshifting turn to it, Results not very natural when it comes to animation but it was fun, will try better next time :)

Mireina

Did new exercise trying to rotate the other way around as I just can't wait for upcoming lesson in 2-point perspective 🙈 First i did what i thought that would work, then i corrected it by finding vanishing points... While facing planes were decent, the not-visible ones were just...bad. I noticed that the vanishing points of more facing me planes are always bit more far away than I would think. At the end animation is great way to learn cause while we might not see mistakes on single work, we see something is realllly off while watching it played :P

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Fabian Ayala

11d

Nice, glad you had fun doing this exercise. This helps because in animation there is a lot of drawing, so you definitely get some millage out of this exercise.

Johannes Schiehsl

11d

Cubes

loes roos

Love your clean lines

Jeremiah Anglin

13d

Boxes - One Point

Jeremiah Anglin

12d

@pedrobranco

13d

I feel like I misunderstood the assignment =( In all seriousness, this was my half assed attempt at doing this perspective exercise. I'm quite proud that I managed to get this far as this was one of the first exercises I faced after starting out. I haven't figured it out yet but I've figured quite a bit already and I feel like I'll have it down within the week. I'll post some actual one point perspective tomorrow!

loes roos

I do not think you misunderstood, but it may make your drawing easier to see if you use a pen for the definite boxes. Maybe not making them all see through...

@pedrobranco

10d

Forgot to post but hey batter fashionably late right? one of my boxes was being weird anyway.

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Lenserd martell

13d

I'm waiting for the next class.

VAGABOND

13d

Practice

Fabian Ayala

13d

Tried animating a box moving in space. This was good practice. Drew a lot of lines lol

Fabian Ayala

loes roos

love this... and now one from close to the viewer to closer to the vanishing point....

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Gannon Beck

12d

That is a fantastic idea! What a great exercise. Nicely done.

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@teolindroos

13d

Post after a long while! I did inktober so haven't been here alot. Also inktober over so have had time to go to draw at nature museum. Plus bonus trooper ar cinema next to museum.