It isn't possible for a normal box. You're getting this in this case because the form you have is more of a trapazoidal shape, making it seem like there's a vanishing point on the bottom. If this were a box and all the lines converged properly that vertical vanishing point would be on top.
It's a good idea to start with a warm up so you aren't drawing messier boxes than needed as part of your actual submission.
Thank you for making the course! I've wanted to learn to draw for years but traditional art classes never clicked for me, and this was the first I found that broke down the fundamentals in a way I understood.
This question isn't exactly DaB related so I understand if you can't answer, but do you have any advice for navigating learning art without structure? DaB always told me what to do and critiques told me what I did right and wrong, but without them I'm not quite sure what to do.
My goal with art is to draw comics, which I know requires being able to draw a wide variety of objects, but there's so much to learn that I get overwhelmed and don't know where to start and when to move on.
Sorry it took so long, I was burnt out after the last lesson and took a break. I tried to plan things out as much as I could but there were some parts I just couldn't figure out how to define.
The gun turret on the tank in particular broke me. I spent a long time trying to figure out how to get it down preciously but ultimately wound up doing a bit of eye balling. Curves in particular seem to be difficult for me.
It's probably just that you're so used to chicken scratching that it's become ingrained as a habit. Habits take time to break, keep resisting the urge and overtime you'll feel it less and less.
Go over the lesson material and practice a bit to get back into the groove of it, then continue where you left off.
Not only is it okay, it's what's intended. DaB isn't a course where each lesson is separate, each lesson builds on itself. The reason you spent so long drawing basic forms in lesson 1 and 2 was so that you could use those forms to build out complex objects.
I haven't tried to draw an owl yet but it seems good to me.
Question about the orthographic studies, how much subdividing should I do for them? Because they're a flat rectangle what I did was draw it with the dimensions of the vehicle. For example if I'm drawing a car that's 7 wheels long and 3 wheels high, I'd make a 3x7 inch rectangle and rely more so on the measurements I laid out instead of subdividing, then do subdivisions in the actually drawing. Is that okay or should I do subdivisions on the orthographic study too?
It varies a lot, not only from exercise to exercise but also from person to person, to the point where there can't be a specific recommended amount of time that works for all or even most situations. It comes down to your own intuition on whether or not you feel you've grasped what you needed to. If you haven't then ideally that would be identified in a critique and then you'll know what you should work on that more.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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