hello friends. its been a while since i last made a post, i hoped to be able to post something at least once a week but here i am. i shouldn’t hold myself to any standards to be honest because i end up disappointing myself like this anyway, so i guess i wont do that anymore.

anyway i’ve been away mainly because i likely pinched a nerve around my neck and it kept me from drawing anything for a while. after talking with a doctor it turns out that pinched nerves can take a while to heal, they affect your neck and shoulder, and sometimes the arm, and despite being almost a month it hasn’t completely gone away. but it has gotten alot better now luckily. it has also forced me to improve my poster drastically. Now i can basically draw as much as i want again luckily. talk about bad luck when i just start getting into drawing huh?

anyway since i’ve been able to draw again i got back to my box drawings. here are a couple.

i’m mainly focusing on drawing a cube with 2 meaningful VPs (vanishing points) figured that I should be able to do that before I try implementing a 3rd meaningful VP.

I REALLY want to make sure I can understand why a cube looks a way in certain perspective, and that’s why I also included an overhead view of the cube to help me visualize it.

to be honest I couldn’t quite figure out how to improve outside of practicing more. and I’m not saying that in a dejected sort of way but more in the “is there something else here I can improve on that I haven’t noticed that’ll help me learn better?” kind of way.

That’s when I decided that reddit might be a good tool to use to ask for help. I posted these pictures in the learntodraw subreddit (Horizontal cube perspective help? : r/learntodraw) asking for help to improve my method, and I got 2 nice responses. One of the responses recommended this video

How To Draw A Perfect Cube In Perspective

and initially I thought it was very helpful, and honestly it still is, but I’m worried now that maybe I didn’t word my reddit post properly. The video certainly does show how to draw a perfect square, but it uses so many guides that it feels like I’m not learning much. Perhaps it is training a skill but it just don’t know what that skill is. I feel like I need to find a middle ground between something that feels like drafting, and just trying to draw a cube from imagination.

It’s too early to ask again on the subreddit so I’ll probably keep practicing this method and see if I could somehow implement it in some way with my current method of drawing.