Structure Basics - Making Things Look 3D

You can simplify pretty much any organic object into sphere, cylinders and cubes or a combination of these three forms. In this episode I explain when and how to use each.

Assignment - Practice drawing cylinders and cubes from various angles. Construct animal photos using the 3 basic forms.

Premium Video Concepts:

What are the basic building blocks of structure?
How to manipulate the 3 forms
When should you use them?
The difference between sphere, cylinders and cubes
How position of the viewer effects the forms
Avoiding flat perspective
How to simplify
How to draw cylinders correctly
How to draw cubes correctly

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models - Aaron Simunovich, Yoni Baker

Music used with permission

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[darinae]

That moment when you realize you have no idea how to draw using structure, but you were trying to already do anatomy

[emilienmare]

learning to draw a cube after a full year of drawing everyday is confusing

[tomchen]

The most useful tip for drawing a box! Thanks.

[donttrustnoone]

2:04- Your drawing is too dynamic compared to the actual pose.

Nice video!

[silverblaize]

That awkward moment when you realize you've been drawing cubes wrong all your life...

[aerocaliber]

The part where it showed how to draw a proper box blew my mind

[jutta]

The moment the realization hits that you've drawn boxes the wrong way all your life....what an incredible teacher you are, Proko.

[psychosislove]

It blows my mind that I am able to learn art properly and in depth on YouTube better than in all of my art classes in college that I had to drop because the teachers refused to teach and also refused to teach what we were actually supposed to be learning in those classes. I learned more in this video than I did in the whole semester of Drawing 2 at my college. I am so glad you were recommended on an art forum I just recently joined, because you speak so clearly and efficiently. I am most definitely going to binge watch your videos now.

[cestarianinhabitant]

:O so that's how to draw a box...

Forget everything your math teacher told you!

[simonwang]

When I see the box in 6:17, I was totally shocked. Even drawing a box will take this amount of thinking and work. Art is hard in general. But I think as long as you understand it, you will do it well with practice. 

[samy]

HA! I'm a minecraft player, I'm used to seeing blocks and boxes everywhere.

[chloecalloway]

My mind after a week of learning from Proko videos in 2020: "Do you want to learn how to draw PROFESSIONAL and IMPRESSIVE artwork? From SCRATCH? That will BLOW people's MINDS?!"

[cowboylerma]

didnt know i sucked so hard at box drawing, thank you mr prokopenko!

[geistthehusky]

Today I learned I can't even draw a box right

[aimeefritz]

I can do the boxes... Just can't do the cylinders :(
Cylinders are structures of pure evil.

[tori]

wait you don't just draw two squares and joint the vertices for the cube? what sort of witchcraft is

[e.hhampsen]

My jaw dropped when he did that stuff with the cube.

[seriousmax]

8:42 this first box is incorrect though. We see the bottom plane, so we are looking upward, and the lines of the box would converge upwards, not downwards.

[ilham]

I was sitting at home doing my drawing homework. and suddenly bam! my 3d vision just opened like a third eye. Now I see when sometging is drawn geometrically incorrect and can produce the whole street in 3d just by eye. and people love to see my work.

[value_]

help- i can't even draw a Square...