09-27-2024, 09:06 AM
Hey nice improvement! I feel like I'm seeing a lot of good boxes and 3D thinking happening. The skull proportions are also better.
As for drawing in boxes. Honestly I have trouble drawing a full human/skeleton in a box. It's not at all easy to do. For me, at least. But it is a good technique for drawing the boxy mannequin so that you can more easily use it as a guide to draw your figure. I would recommend using your box forms as practice. I can give you a couple pointers as to how to do it more accurately.
The hard part about the method is maintaining the proportions of your object in perspective. For this you need a 2D plan like you made with the noses. The second thing is that at least one point of your object has to actually be touching the edge of the box. I think that's the reason the noses worked so well, they are not only relatively simple forms but you had a plan, and the noses touch the box. Your 3D noses don't necessarily maintain the same shape and proportion as the side view noses, however. Your skeleton seen from high above was a little confused because there wasn't any part that was for sure touching the box, so it's easy to estimate wrong and make it look weird.
Anyway, basically you need to reproduce the 2D flat plan, as a 3D plane in space, then simply project it out to give it depth. I suggest, if nothing, else, at least divide you bounding boxes in half! Then at least you are keeping track of the biggest proportions. You know for example upper body is half the length of body, and legs the other half. So it would at least give you that general idea of how it would fit in a box if you were doing a figure. Dividing the plane basically just makes it easier to draw your side view in it. You could also just use perspective warp tool to fit it to your plane in perspective.
I mark all the points where it touches the side of the box, since these points, when the get into perspective are the givens. If it's touching the box, it's a fixed guideline. Where this method goes wrong is when nothing is actually touching the bounding box.
Hopefully this gives you an idea of how to proceed. With this example, it's really so simple, there's not much need for the method. But I think you can see how if we add a head form, and legs, it would look like a human, and then you'd be really close to drawing the figure at the crazy perspective of your choice. You could also plot some horizontal proportions on the front of the box too, for more accuracy. Or just wing it.
As for drawing in boxes. Honestly I have trouble drawing a full human/skeleton in a box. It's not at all easy to do. For me, at least. But it is a good technique for drawing the boxy mannequin so that you can more easily use it as a guide to draw your figure. I would recommend using your box forms as practice. I can give you a couple pointers as to how to do it more accurately.
The hard part about the method is maintaining the proportions of your object in perspective. For this you need a 2D plan like you made with the noses. The second thing is that at least one point of your object has to actually be touching the edge of the box. I think that's the reason the noses worked so well, they are not only relatively simple forms but you had a plan, and the noses touch the box. Your 3D noses don't necessarily maintain the same shape and proportion as the side view noses, however. Your skeleton seen from high above was a little confused because there wasn't any part that was for sure touching the box, so it's easy to estimate wrong and make it look weird.
Anyway, basically you need to reproduce the 2D flat plan, as a 3D plane in space, then simply project it out to give it depth. I suggest, if nothing, else, at least divide you bounding boxes in half! Then at least you are keeping track of the biggest proportions. You know for example upper body is half the length of body, and legs the other half. So it would at least give you that general idea of how it would fit in a box if you were doing a figure. Dividing the plane basically just makes it easier to draw your side view in it. You could also just use perspective warp tool to fit it to your plane in perspective.
I mark all the points where it touches the side of the box, since these points, when the get into perspective are the givens. If it's touching the box, it's a fixed guideline. Where this method goes wrong is when nothing is actually touching the bounding box.
Hopefully this gives you an idea of how to proceed. With this example, it's really so simple, there's not much need for the method. But I think you can see how if we add a head form, and legs, it would look like a human, and then you'd be really close to drawing the figure at the crazy perspective of your choice. You could also plot some horizontal proportions on the front of the box too, for more accuracy. Or just wing it.