That is actually an amazing tip! I’ll definitely try it out as I want to learn perspective and anatomy. Also, I’m going to watch Animal Crackers in a couple days! I’m looking forward to it

I've literally never loved an art tutorial more in my life

“Our world is all just legos” Is not an epiphany I thought I’d realize in a KZfaq short.

"everything is just SHAPES" -Mae

The first ever tutorial that isn’t just them saying “If your bad at art then just be good at it”

"Our world is just a bunch of LEGOs." greatest quote ever

thank you! i just tried drawing these little legos and it really did help with perspectives :)

I love that you focus on the practice and the creativity and practical application. My art teacher MADE us use rulers/straight edges to line up a point then to make that point into lines that go to the edges of the paper and all the annoying extra line that you ended up erasing or overlapping finished lines, the technical aspect of it to make it perfect and "right" was ridiculous. I understand why practical application is important but I don't want to spend forever making the line look perfectly like his and hers because we all did it the same annoying way with all the erasing.

You are so helpful! I always get anxious before I draw, mainly because I don’t want to deal with mistakes. It’s not that I want a perfect drawing, it’s that I get angry at myself over one erasable mistake. You’ve taught me that is okay to make mistakes in art, and I’m forever grateful. I pushed myself and drew a masterpiece. Thankyou !

There was this regular substitute teacher I had in middle school and he'd draw stuff for me every time he subbed because I was ALWAYS DRAWING and he told me something very helpful, "a drawing is just a line going for a walk". Helped my mentality and the way I started looking at art. I wish I could remember his name.

You give the most useful art tips ever! Thank you so much!

triangular prisms are my nemesis. they always look wrong even if you're doing it right 😭

"Once you can draw one, you can draw a whole bunch of them." I- it's just **chef kiss**

I really love your art! Thanks for these tutorials! I actually started thinking like that but now I can't see normally. Everywhere I look my brain just starts breaking it down, the sides, the imperfections😅

Thanks for this useful tip, I have been struggling with drawing buildings for awhile now.

Wow you made this feel very approachable. I have 0 artistic knowledge and so many tutorials are basically "just draw this" but you gave a very good starting point on how to draw it

This is so genius. I love how scott’s tutorials are so easy and dont make me feel terrible because i dont end up being incredible at it…

that multiple squares part is actually gonna be so helpful

This is so sweet and so simply explained. What an overwhelming skill that you broke into an encouraging path. Thank you! This is will shared with my classroom students always.

Always have been drawing cubes, but never stopped to realize what I could do with them.

I swear, this is the first time I've ever understood this, despite being told it so many times. The way you explained it just made it all click. Thank you.

Thank you for the tip, Scott! I've been wanting to do my own d&d character art and 3d token for the first time instead of looking up art online, and this is one step forward that I needed: training perspective to draw my character upside-down. Have a good day

I'd like to appreciate how experienced you are with the art ... You don't just describe your own perspectives and perception but also help others to find their ways of doing the same ... This was such a great tip..

This sounds like a good doodle idea that not only let's me draw but also helps me practice :D

This is what my art teacher said to me in highschool which changed absolutely everything about how I thought of art. Not specifically the Lego thing, but how everything is just shapes and you'll see it in everything

This reminds me of all the sketching of complex shapes that I used to do in my engineering class. We used to have to draw the different views of specific parts. I never thought of utilizing it in this way ! :)

Every artist I’ve asked for tips has said the same thing, “draw the shapes you see.” With that prior knowledge and what you just taught in this short, it’s immensely powerful and helpful. Thanks so much

Perspective lines and vanishing points can also really help.

When I was a kid I had a book which I didn't enjoy reading, but I could stare at water-colored paintings for hours. All those little details and emphasises, as different lights gently strike the objects. It's one of the only experiences I enjoy just imagining and observing the details. So your paintings really get me the same sensation, and I'm now a fan :)

Oh mt gosh this is actually amazing thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!

The way you break down complicated things into a simpler understandable process is fantastic. It would have never occurred to me to think of perspective in this way.

Dude, this shorts he made is simple but soo helpful and informative. I've been downloading all this shorts so I could adapt his teachings. Thank you for all this videos you've made

You know, my art teacher told me this but in such a way it only caused me more confusing way that I could never really resonate with, it has really impacted my want to draw and do art but thanks I've seen only 2 of your videos and I'm already starting to understand this stuff way more and I want to get back into drawing again

The hardest thing is mostly to just start, these tips motivates ppl to start, good work man

Your voice is so friendly! Makes me feel so happy and warm when I see your videos

This is a wonderful tip! Thank you so much, I will definitely try this out. I recently just found your channel, and I am so glad I did!

Thank you! This is so encouraging. Stay awesome!

Imagining the world as a bunch of legos makes it a lot more fun, thanks for the art and life advice!

I am in no way an artist like you, Scott, but through your videos, I no longer feel hate towards myself after attempting to draw something and it not coming out perfectly 😅 Thank you

I've been in a really bad art slump for a while and your videos are helping me through it so much!!

you are literally so wholesome and give great advice to a struggling beginner. thank you :)

Just here to say I really appreciate the arts you just showed. I'm not really much into doing arts but I do like admiring them. Those that I just saw are my cup of tea

Wow just blown away but that korero (conversation) I felt really inspired by that thank you.🙌

WHAT THIS IS THE MOST HELPFUL THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. Im gonna start drawing again RIGHT NOW.

If there would be any art tutorials that really helped it would be from you Scott,I really appreciate it!!

A useful hack on how to start • first learn from squares, the basics • then go ahead on rectangles, since it's a bit harder • learn from 3d • then you can go ahead to other shapes. For head shapes, this hack is actually pretty useful. It's all about perspective, yea this shows that.

I hope this channel never ends. It's my go- to motivation spot even though I'm not an artist.

You inspired me to start sketching again. The last few days have been extremely frustrating and i wanted to throw my sketchbook against the wall multiple times, but i think I'm finally warming up to the process now. Thank you

My perspective professor took the entire lecture to the top of the building and said look.... Loved that man

That is actually a phenomenal tip. You are a very genuine, intellectual, interesting person.

There are art hacks out there, but this feels like an art cheat code

I'm learning so much by watching yr channel. I stopped drawing and sketching for years and now I'm doing digital art. These are the art classes I should've taken YEARS ago.

this is the most wholesome thing that I saw in my life 😊

I've really been struggling with perspective! thanks for this video

My man’s voice is full of happiness and I’m all in for it haha

Wow! I never thought it this way. I am totally mind-blown. Even though I am not an artist and neither I am going to start doing this but your tip did motivate a part in me to do it.

Dang I was sad when I couldn’t watch you anymore when I had to sleep😭 I was also annoyed hearing an alarm go off and on lol

I started learning how to draw recently and this was actually really helpful, like I already knew that I need to learn how to see the world in more basic shapes but I didn't know how or where to start and now I have a much better idea. Thank you

I really can’t stop watching this channel

this video simplified the concept of perspective for me

thank you for this, your reference to Legos made me feel calm for some reason. I'm gonna try that box exercise

I took a drawing class in college as a general ed credit. This is pretty close to how we were taught. Not specifically legos, but shapes. Our perspective drawing could to be any location on campus. It was so much fun and I loved that class.

I enjoyed learning perspective drawing in school because it helped me with every subject I ever had. It was fun to play around with perspective, too. Especially with my photography. In fact, it's still one of my favorite techniques.

good to know my favorite margin doodle strategy is a good way to practice perspective!

I’m my experience, everything is comprised of basic shapes and drawing those out will really help you proportions and general idea of things

Omg, I've been looking for this for a few days, thank you so much! I saw your video in my shorts and my brain went "omg please be about perspective, please be about perspective...YESSSS IT IS ABOUT PERSPECTIVE YEEHA" as a beginner artist, I like that: - the exercise is simple and understandable enough - I understand where it can lead me (the metaphor about Legos is amazing :D) - it's simple enough and doesn't feel intimidating - you've shown examples so it's clear for me even though I have zero experience with perspective gonna try it out right now, thanks!!

Shape drawing is great as a warm up exercise as well!

The time between the skill level for drawing those starting cubes and squares, and the skill level for drawing entire perspective illustrations is years we're talking years of practice

Closer to the vanishing point, the object becomes distorted

I looked for this advice in my whole artist career.

At the end you had me tearing up 🥲

I’m so happy to have a online art teacher 😌👍

Hey scott! Maybe you could've explained the perspective thing with linear perspective! I always draw in linear perspective, and I'd certainly love your opinion on drawing in it! [If you dont know, search linear perspective drawing tutorials and you'll definitely get the basics immediately]

The way you draw reminds me of my great grandfather. His paintings are hung up in our house. He made a beautiful watercolor painting of the church my mother was married in, and your style, especially in that first painting you showed, reminds me of his.

OMG! You’re a genius! Thank you for teaching everyone. You make KZfaq a brighter place.

You've changed my whole perspective. Thankyou

Ok but that lego train was so cool

“Our world is just a bunch of legos.” So this is why that guy broke apart when I dropped him off that building.

After practicing trigonometry and circles for like 6 hours a day, I CANT stop seeing triangles-

Thanks man! This is just what I needed to not give up on drawing

This is a great way of explaining it. I've drawn like this since I was little because I've always been able to visualize shapes when looking at objects. I've tried to explain it to friends before but I end up sounding crazy. The conversation goes like this, "you see that lady's face well it's a circle with another smaller circle below that has the point of a rounded triangle and the sides slope up like a ramp"

I feel like something just finally clicked in my mind about this. Thank you

That's why i tell my students when they're drawing complex things to draw the basic shapes to get proportions and perspectives right

I love that last picture.

This is actually really cool. Im not sure if itll help with advanced perspectives ( e.g. multiple point perspective) but definitely helps a lot with some simpler ones

I learned using three point perspective. Basically, you put down a point and draw your shape in a different spot. Then, you connect each corner of the shape to the point. And then, you cut off the shape where you want it to end using lines parallel to the sides of the shape.

Thank you! If anyone is having a hard time adjusting their styles to things like these just stick to what your used to cuz in making art anything is allowed

You didn’t mention it, but the best way of drawing shapes is with 1-point… 2-point… 3-point… etc. perspectives.

"All this power in the palm of my hand..." talk about 80/20. THANKS.

i suck at perspective drawing and i had watched so many tutorials until this one came up after i tore away 3 complex unfinished weird artworks that look nothing like the drawing i was using as inspo this really helped thank you:)❤️

I love this!! I never thought of perspective in this way! I think organic objects are so difficult to understand, but this will definitely help me start! ☺️

You're the best art teacher ever

This makes it look so easy I mess up so often when I draw a cube in class, it’s really difficult to get all the proportions and angles and stuff right. But hey, at least I know cool techniques on how to draw a fricking elipse now

this really boosted my energy to draw, thanks

That is actually what I recommend to new artists. Start with cubes and basic objects.

You just made me snap back into art, like this was my first passion n it got harder because i kinda put it on the back burner

this is the most wholesome art tutorial I've seen

this is actually such an amazing tip! I'm going to try this out, thank you :D

There’s an entire art course on art fundamentals based on this! It’s called Draw A Box, im currently working through it and I’ve learned a ton so far.

I feel like Lego should have paid for this, it would be a genuinely good Lego ad