Lesson One: A Cube

Drawing a cube is not difficult at all, the process is very simple. Of course, as time passes and your skills increase, drawing other shapes in 3 Dimensions will become easier. Now, I want to start with a cube, because from what I said before, it is really easy to draw. You can apply it to any shape. Lets begin.

First of all, we start with a line, shown by the following illustration:

It is a very simple line. Don't work yourself out too much! :) After the line, we create a square. As shown below:

The next step is the technique used to draw the cube. Draw a line starting from the middle of the square. This is illustrated below:

We have to draw another square, look at the illustration below:

Once the squares are drawn, we connect the corners and we'll get this:

The lines are straight on the actual illustration, but the angle that I took the picture from with my camera was off so it looks a little off-set. Its an illusion! :) Just make sure the lines are straight when you draw the cube. Once you get it and are comfortable with drawing it, you can move on to other shapes and other techniques. I will show you how to user perspective on a later lesson to add even more depth to the shape. Get creative, add shading, make it solid, do whatever you want! Enjoy!

God Bless!

p.s. Even though a cube is very simple, it plays a major role in architecture. Not only when a plan of a cube is drawn but when a plan is rendered and when the client wants a 3 Dimensional illustration of what he/she wants constructed. A cube is the first step of 3 Dimensional drawing, make sure you get comfortable with it! You will use it A LOT!