Foreshortening & Cubes

     Now that I have been able to draw spheres decently, I am on to drawing cubes. Apparently, cubes can be used to draw just about anything. To start drawing, a cube, you have to draw a foreshortened square. Mark Kistler says that foreshortening is a distortion to make one part of a drawing look closer than another (43). This way, it looks like you are staring at the side of the cube, rather than the top. Here is a little more advanced cube that I drew:

     As you can see, where the inside of the box is, that is a foreshortened square, which makes the drawing look distorted.

     Soon i learned how to stack 3-D rectangles, which follows the foreshortening above. However, Kistler mentions a crucial thing when stacking anything with a foreshortened square. He says "When you draw the back edges of the top of the pedestal, be sure to go behind the corner of the post" (Kistler, 68). If this is not done, then it ruins the foreshortening effect as well as making the drawing look weird

     Then i took those two techniques, combined them, and made this:

     What is your opinion on foreshortening a square to make a cube? Do you think this is the best way to make a cube or is the anything better?

Kistler, Mark. You Can Draw in 30 Days: the Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less. Da Capo Press, 2011.