Tony and I were talking about how to figure out rotating around a cube and to keep the proportions and I came to the conclusion that I had no idea how. So tried a few single point perspective drawings(around step 18 in 'perspective made easy' book) which kinda gave me a starting point, but I'm really no closer to knowing how to now take that same cube and tumble it around.
Cylinders drawn using the technique in this book take some time to divide a cube and draw out, I imagine doing that for every limb, neck, appendage on a character would take a crazy amount of time, so I assume there has to be an easier way, or maybe it's just about getting used to drawing the ellipses at either end of the cylinder then getting comfortable without doing it this mechanical way.
The bottom right is a small staging drawing from "A Fistful of Dollars". Watched it for the first time tonight it was great, sometimes I draw scenes from movies in a very crap thumbnail type drawing like this so I can maybe try something similar in my shots later on. In this particular shot the man with no name enters the scene from behind the second archway, these arches are white, and as he comes in he's almost black next to the white walls, as an added bonus he stands straight upward, so he's not only contrasting in value, he's contrasting in shape as well. You know exactly where to look, I thought it was neat.
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