Don't Box my Balls! (1) Brokendraw Review

FIRST: Brokendraw is a very talented artist who has done a useful thing in putting together a compendium of 50 common exercises from the NuArt school of boxes and mannikins.    • the only art tutorial video you will ever ...   I intend this video as constructive criticism - though in a cheeky delivery as I want the viewer to stay awake. (Welcome to youtube). I've gone through his 50 and reviewed them: good, bad and yikes. I am opposed to box mannikins, as it front-loads the student with 3-point perspective. I illustrate the correct, traditional method in contrast (Disney/Bluth/WB/Marvel/etc). If you're a student getting your brain mangled by the box torment-nexus, please watch. A master list of all my animation tutorials (free & paid): www.animatewithdermot.com/tuts/index.shtml patreon: www.patreon.com/c/AnimatewithDermot udemy: www.udemy.com/course/animate-with-tahoma2d-opentoonz/ linkedin: www.linkedin.com/learning/21-foundations-of-animation I really dislike the drawabox method, it overloads incredible technicality onto the student. This stuff was figured out decades ago, there was no reason for people to reinvent the wheel. Kimon Nicolaides 'Natural Way to Draw' (1941): https://dn710204.ca.archive.org/0/ite... If you want to get into perspective, Norling (which will show you what you need to know and how to place characters in backgrounds: https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/ite... 00:00 preview 02:04 intro 03:26 different styles 04:06 the sacred books blessed be 04:45 mechanics 05:45 my fun 'exercise' 10:04 torment-nexus 10:50 point co-ordinatin 11:55 coin flips / no markers or perfect lines 13:36 targets 14:06 print / calligraphy 15:56 shape-matching 16:37 reflections 17:36 ribbons 19:08 silhouettes 21:26 continuous line 23:17 form construction 25:29 cube-grid student-destroyer 28:20 cylinders 29:45 box compositions bad-acid trip 31:24 rotation madness 33:48 form / boxes uber alles 35:42 combining / plumping pipes 36:57 stacking / debunk 39:03 clustering 40:57 bending / point of origin 43:10 form interpretation / contours 44:41 softening / mannikin debunk 47:11 figure contours 48:08 mannikinisation debunk 50:54 deconstruction / horse 53:03 imagination / memory strangeness 56:08 two-value study / tone 58:45 texture gradients 1:00:58 texture cube / why? / dog 1:03:28 observation / stack-and-queue debunk 1:05:50 overlap vs. correct drawing process 1:09:08 gestures (very good!) 1:11:35 caricatures 1:12:00 master study / rembrandt / bluth / keane 1:28:01 students in distress 1:28:16 perspective no grid / debunk 1:28:24 intuitive boxes / debunk 1:31:11 scaling in perspective 1:32:20 silhouette forms 1:32:43 mega cube-grid / art backrooms 1:33:20 visual library 1:34:12 reference recall 1:35:01 asoro heads 1:35:35 feature focus / debunk 1:38:43 subject variation 1:39:16 magic observation 1:39:57 imagination / mannikins 1:40:49 pinnochio / no 1:41:59 chair test 1:42:20 integrated imagination 1:43:02 i give you permission to have fun 1:45:27 daily highlight 1:46:46 continuity drawing / animation & comics 1:48:54 practice schedule / 50-50 1:55:57 drawabox's stupid barrel 1:57:29 loomis and mannkins 1:58:44 BROKENDRAW IS A GREAT GUY AND I LIKE HIM!