Thank you, this looks very interesting. Although it reminds me of the final drawabox lessons. Isn't this a bit advanced? I'll just look up tutorials and see what I can do.
you actually do start going over some cylinder material in lesson 2, but if the cylinders look too intimidating just stick to boxes! the way i see it drawing these basic primitive drawings with simple shapes is basically the 250 box challenge with application! And to your second question about this looking like the final lesson, yes in that you start with primitives, but with that lesson you use the simple shapes to influence your decision making for the more complex shapes. I think that is really what they are trying to show with the 250 box challenge, once you lay down the simple framework, youre decision making for more complex shapes is greatly simplified!
Here are some example ideas to get you started! I did these for a different website called ArtWod (also great website), but the first image you can see I'm just playing with basic shapes and the second I'm applying the basic shapes to show a simplified figure drawing. A ruler will help you immensely in these early stages to help build shape knowledge and working in perspective, drawing lines towards the vanishing point. Hope all this helps mate! Again if cylinders look terrible, just stick to the boxes
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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