Boxes

The second concept we learnt was boxes. The idea here is to better understand the movement, shape and form by representing different parts of the body with 3 dimensional cubic boxes. We kind of ignore the joints in this exercise. There is a box for the head, the ribcage, the pelvis, 2 upper legs, 2 lower legs, 2 upper arms and 2 lower arms, 2 feet and 2 hands. For each box, we have to determine the height x width x depth and tilt. This exercise was a real brain teaser and made me think really hard. For each box, we had to determine the tilt i.e. do we see the top plane or the bottom one, the left or right plane. I found this really hard to determine the tilt of the rib cage and pelvis. But I really felt like this gives a great understanding of the proportion and position of form. I believe the goal of these exercises is to train the eye really well to get position and proportion correct. Here are some boxes from class. Some of these I had some help from Tim or Toby.

Some words from my class notes to ponder on or for future reference
design
nature
unity
variety of size, mass and proportion
proportion and position