You cannot draw Cubes (yet!)

Being able to draw cubes is incredibly useful, and checking whether you really understood cubes can be done with the Box-Council-Test!

Confetti effect, thanks to Videezy:
Mars, thanks to wikimedia commons:

[prsona]

dude believe it or not here is my story. ive been trying to get better at drawing for a very long time but last month, i realized the thing that im missing is foundation so i decided to draw cubes and cylinders in 3 point perspective. i would first trace, then copy, then from memory, then imagination. my ability to draw from imagination got exponentially better almost overnight its ridiculous. to think that all these years, i couldve saved so much time and energy by just studying this simple thing hahaha. sometimes the thing we need to is too simple so we dismiss it, thinking we need to have something more complex. funny coincidence since somehow youtube recommend your video today, just after i realized this lol.

[bakettsu_z]

your videos are so informative and useful! are you planning to upload more frequently? im also waiting for the next part of perspective which talks about developing intuition and spatial awareness...

[TiffanyNg]

I really laugh and said "b*tch" outloud at 0:53

[emjc]

Thanks Phip! I’m gonna use this for warm ups now

[nicole]

I remember watching this video and it blowing my mind, I incorporated it into a lot of my practice and it certainly has helped my art quite a lot. Thank you for this simple but very important tip

[truthphilic]

I watched all of your videos in one sitting. Your videos are deep. Especially, none taught me about perspective like you.
As I am just a beginner, can you recommend me a course where I can learn all basics to advance in depth?

[yoppyzx]

What were your specific training methods to learn to draw the hinged cube? Should each person invent their own way to train cubes?

[yabuki]

this exercise is very good practice for hinging, i think its necessary to understand elipses first

[johntorres]

I've drawn alot of boxes, in fact, I've done the 250 box challenge twice, but I gotta admit I stumbled a bit figuring out wich convergences the cubes will share. I wondered how people freehanded cubes and geoforms at the same depth. I saw it a lot in bridgman. This simple video filled a pretty substantial gap in my knowledge. Cant hope for much more than that.

[jascha]

Bro thank you for not repeating the usual art "tips" like all other channels but instead doing your own research.

[silentjosh]

Awesome channel! Also I would love to see you do a video explaining how to rotate and turn the cubes!

[rodrigomarquina]

Hey!! Love your videos. Is there a discord or smth? Thank you!!

[samuelbettinelli]

I guess the only constant has to be the center point.
The vanishing points can be randomly moved as long as we keep the proportions and the objects will still make sense in space no?

[rivh]

I draw a Cube sphere and cylinder for warm up...

[adamnowak]

I already have subscribe to your channel It promises to be interesting

[dobijo]

this is such a helpful video. i started with drawabox and slowly got a little better at drawing single boxes. Then another artist (SteveSketches he's amazing) whose process I watch on twitch suggested to draw multiple boxes & objects together. I realized this was the next step to be taken and I found this video so im grateful. I wanted to ask you how do I practice all this (like the examples you showed in the video)? I feel like I need to have some guideline or some template for these exercises so that I can see where I'm going wrong + what to tackle next. is there a book or some online resource you referred to? drawabox is so good but I wished they also covered a section on drawing multiple objects together because im very confused...plz give me some advice...like I also took vandruff's persp course its great but he doesn't go in detail on how to do the exercises its more conceptual...

[ScilexGuitar]

This is great, but I dont think you should limit it to two boxes, instead build a larger scene with boxes hinging each other arbitrarily

[accel]

Hello sir.  I bow my head to you for the perspective video. However, can you please explain to my not-so-smart self. If we take a box in 2 point perspective. And then try to hinge it. Do we now become not perpendicular to any guideline? Will the hinged box be in 3 point perspective while the original box will stay in 2 point perspective? Huge thanks! You are a legend!

[JuanFarineliFumis]

i already take drawabox and a paid course but my cubes are a horror movie haha, thats funny but also a little sad

[OsimaniCristian]

Great video, you should upload more. My 2 cubes came out ok, not perfect but fine🤗🤗🤗