Go from drawing BOXES to BODIES

"Draw boxes to learn art", but why is that important? I'll explain why drawing boxes is a good exercise, and a useful step to figure out construction before learning detailed anatomy.
My CSP pencil and brush details:

Edited by @chashuu0

00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Thinking in 3D
01:34 - Do you ACTUALLY know how to draw boxes?
03:00 - Drawing humans from boxes
03:48 - Measuring in 3D space
06:23 - Cylinders
07:30 - Adding anatomy
08:28 - Isn't that too many guidelines?

[Vyloka]

Pikats like that cool aunt we all wish we had growing up for real. The way she breaks things down for artists of any knowledge basically is such a high value

[DashMan-gz]

Step 1: Draw boxes
Step 2: Spend 2 years learning anatomy
Step 3: Draw the rest of the owl
well, good to know I'm doing it right, just gotta keep the grind.

[JayDay]

What I like about your videos is that you follow a logic on what to learn and what to do to learn those things. Most art tutorials that I see just tells things as they are and don't actually teach you how to practice. For example, a common art tutorial about boxes would just say that you have to draw in perspective, but wouldn't actually show you those lines and diagonals and proportion techniques like you did. This is why I like your channel :) please keep it up!

[snvlpkinq]

5:25 that is actually S tier technique, thank oyu!

[albarnombradia]

I was just thinking about how to draw the human figure with boxes, and youtube recommended this to me
What a unique coordination

[Idk_]

Felt so motivated and un- intimidated by it all, but the SECOND you mentioned I STILL need to learn the ENTIRETY of anatomy, I gen. don't feel like trying. Every time I hope that I can learn something, there's always another entirely different thing that is WAY less simple and WAY more tedious. I just wanna draw things good, not have more homework to constantly worry about😭

[desquolor]

I am grateful for the cube (and by extension basic forms, lines, and ellipse practice). It is the great filter where you get to see Dunning-Kruger in full effect.

[UltimateHeroDuh]

Thank you for giving the context behind practicing basic shapes that I wish I got ten months ago.

[thenukebout]

I got a drawing pad for Christmas 2 days ago and have been trying too learn drawing a couple hours a day. Today I found myself asking, “how do I draw?” It’s 3:56 am I am up like a crazy person, and I stopped when I realized it’s all just boxes. I full on paused the video and said out loud “oh, so that’s how you draw.” Thank you Pikats, I’ll practice this tomorrow, I’m going to bed now.

[zacke.]

Brand new artsy guy here. I audibly went "HOLY CRAP THATS SO COOL" when she showed how the box perspective thing worked.

[inky]

Insane timing, I’ve been searching for this exact thing

[abdouplay]

just from your "avatar", I knew instantly that you're gonna cook something

[batattitude]

Everything you want to draw is either a box or can fit inside a box. And if you can use boxes for perspective, then you can use that box to place not-boxes into perspective.

[Carra_Mell]

I was stuck on drawing the human figure beyond just boxes and honestly this helped so much. Thank you ❄️

[asaltyem]

as someone whos been drawing for only a few years and is looking to improve this was massively helpful. i was genuinely taking notes so I can move forward in improving my art. Thank you!

[tosstt]

accidentally clicked thinking it was a 3D model poly modeling video, now i can draw what witch craft is this

[MyNamesHunter]

Imo if you are starting out better to use boxes then add spherical forms inside the boxes to then add the muscles on top of later down the road this also helps you better place your spheres in perspective and actually gives you a solid idea of where it's going as I know when I first started getting into anatomy I was not good with cross contours and showing their form with them (they always felt flat) so I found what worked for me was box then sphere

[yasXD]

OMG I NEEDED THIS VIDEO TY SO MUCH!!!!
srsly, last week i was complaining to my friend that whenever i went to search for tutorials to draw perspective it aways say to draw the body as 3d shapes, but i only knew one way to draw a 3d shape (like 0:13) 😭😭😭
im going to save this video to finish watching later, but the beginning has already helped a lot :DD

[TokikoG]

Somehow you posted exactly the video I needed, exactly at the time I'm needing it. The very next day I discovered your channel. Almost scary.
I've seen videos about fundamentals of perspectve but they didn't show as clearly the whole process from going to those basis to actual drawing of people and how "No, it's not because you stop drawing the boxes at some point they are useless"

[justmedidi]

this video was a nice reminder that my efforts in doing DrawABox were well spent even though i didn't finish the course. the first lesson is very helpful and i still do the warm ups regularly. pikat adds onto the information well here. i always struggled to draw bodies in perspective, but now i understand how to better use boxes to guide myself after being confused for so long heh