Figuring out what was wrong with my earlier boxes and finding out how to use the technique to create nice drawings.

I didn’t even have to read. Just flipping the page and looking at a few pictures was enough to realize why the boxes I’ve been drawing the last few weeks where so distorted.
They were meant as an exercise to understand the geometrics of the box. By drawing the vanishing point on the paper you get a feel for the way the lines go.
But to get a real box you have to put the vanishing point far beyond the edge of you paper. Even far beyond the edge of your room. To get it right you have to imagine the vanishing point at a distance of some kilometers.

So here is a box the way it’s supposed to look.

From boxes… 1

After this I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to draw any more boxes for a while. But it turns out that the book has other ideas.
The whole point of learning to draw a box free hand is that you can use it to draw other objects that are more or less box shaped.

So here are some more boxes.

From boxes… 2

And here is the fun bit.
By only adding a few more lines and curves you can make a bed of these boxes.

…to beds