/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4198607
>>4198628
i wont be able to explain it really, i learned about this from the book loomis figure drawing and it took me months to finally realize.

when you are drawing from life or from imagination the box does not exist yet. you just have to pick a starting point and its best to use heads because everything teaches you to measure based on heads. so you draw the head however you like. to make the box when you only have 1 head, ill say an absolute beginner should just do some guess work for how wide you want the figure to be and make marks at this width.
and then pull those marks into a vanishing point, the direction you want them to be foreshortened in (you can eyeball this in life drawing). so you have both sides of the box, and the top of the box which is just where the lines intersect with the top of the head (you can use two point perspective). finally to actually section out heads on the box you use the bottom left method in this image. and voila, you are set to create a foreshortened figure, and can make the box 3d to help guide in volume. its important to understand that the square you just made is for the back of the body and not the middle, makes it easier to create the 3d box to realize this

to separate a box that already exists into equal parts you use the bottom middle section. its all about perspective