21.3 People
Now, I want to draw two people, one standing by the sofa and the other in the doorway. What does the 3D Box tool have to do with drawing humans, you may ask? A lot! Although I’m not going to model robot-like constructions out of parallelepipeds, I still want to make sure the height and bulkiness of a figure are correct in the drawing’s perspective, and an easy way to achieve this is with the 3D Box tool.
Here’s what I do. First, I add a tall and narrow box in the doorway—this will be our human number 1. As before, I just duplicate the doorway box, squeeze it on the sides in the X/Y plane, and resize it so as to get a realistic proportion of the figure height and doorway height. (Ask someone to stand in a real doorway to get an idea.) ...
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