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i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06fyym | g06ws19 | 1,596,430,765 | 1,596,446,508 | 9 | 11 | Yeah man, I started with barely being able to draw stick figures, it's been three months of constant practice and now I'm able to draw still life decently. It's absolutely possible to learn to draw. Some people are lucky enough to be born with a talent for it, but even they only get good enough to draw by practicing for hundreds of hours at first. Don't be discouraged because there are better artists, just start working and keep working hard. | Imagination is like motivation. People believe that these things come first and should carry you through it and if you don't have it then it's not for you, or you aren't talented. However, in reality while imagination and motivation might get you started you need to build habits and skills so that when motivation comes and your imagination runs wild you are able to actually take advantage of it. | 0 | 15,743 | 1.222222 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06ws19 | g05vw53 | 1,596,446,508 | 1,596,417,722 | 11 | 7 | Imagination is like motivation. People believe that these things come first and should carry you through it and if you don't have it then it's not for you, or you aren't talented. However, in reality while imagination and motivation might get you started you need to build habits and skills so that when motivation comes and your imagination runs wild you are able to actually take advantage of it. | yes, you can, not everyone are already great at drawing or have that great imaginations when they first started, you don't have to pressure yourself and compare youself to others especially if you just started to learn, just take your time to learn and be patient with your progress, you don't have to rush it bud | 1 | 28,786 | 1.571429 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g063z4v | g06ws19 | 1,596,422,593 | 1,596,446,508 | 9 | 11 | Literally everyone sucked when they started. You see the results of thousands of hours of practice. You can literally find videos of people drawing with their feet because they spent thousands of hours doing it. You can be great at a lot of things granted that you are willing to put in the time | Imagination is like motivation. People believe that these things come first and should carry you through it and if you don't have it then it's not for you, or you aren't talented. However, in reality while imagination and motivation might get you started you need to build habits and skills so that when motivation comes and your imagination runs wild you are able to actually take advantage of it. | 0 | 23,915 | 1.222222 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06iiim | g06ws19 | 1,596,432,764 | 1,596,446,508 | 7 | 11 | There was a front page post about an Iranian woman who was massively disabled and so drew with her feet, and she made a realistic drawing. I think for the craft of drawing you'll be fine. | Imagination is like motivation. People believe that these things come first and should carry you through it and if you don't have it then it's not for you, or you aren't talented. However, in reality while imagination and motivation might get you started you need to build habits and skills so that when motivation comes and your imagination runs wild you are able to actually take advantage of it. | 0 | 13,744 | 1.571429 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06rzi2 | g06ws19 | 1,596,441,548 | 1,596,446,508 | 7 | 11 | You can definitely learn how to draw it’s hard but I really is a skill just like any other. I don’t know how creative you’ll be if you truly are as unimaginative as you say, but at the very least you’ll be able to draw and paint realistic studies of people, animals, landscapes, etc... | Imagination is like motivation. People believe that these things come first and should carry you through it and if you don't have it then it's not for you, or you aren't talented. However, in reality while imagination and motivation might get you started you need to build habits and skills so that when motivation comes and your imagination runs wild you are able to actually take advantage of it. | 0 | 4,960 | 1.571429 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06g6qk | g06ws19 | 1,596,430,928 | 1,596,446,508 | 7 | 11 | Yes but you need to understand what you are doing wrong in order to improve | Imagination is like motivation. People believe that these things come first and should carry you through it and if you don't have it then it's not for you, or you aren't talented. However, in reality while imagination and motivation might get you started you need to build habits and skills so that when motivation comes and your imagination runs wild you are able to actually take advantage of it. | 0 | 15,580 | 1.571429 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06tyiz | g06ws19 | 1,596,443,558 | 1,596,446,508 | 5 | 11 | Yes | Imagination is like motivation. People believe that these things come first and should carry you through it and if you don't have it then it's not for you, or you aren't talented. However, in reality while imagination and motivation might get you started you need to build habits and skills so that when motivation comes and your imagination runs wild you are able to actually take advantage of it. | 0 | 2,950 | 2.2 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06ws19 | g060qya | 1,596,446,508 | 1,596,420,645 | 11 | 2 | Imagination is like motivation. People believe that these things come first and should carry you through it and if you don't have it then it's not for you, or you aren't talented. However, in reality while imagination and motivation might get you started you need to build habits and skills so that when motivation comes and your imagination runs wild you are able to actually take advantage of it. | Just start by copying a good photo or a screenshot from whatever movie/game you wish. You'll have a pic to aim for, if using a tablet set a grid in your program of choice and go to town trying to reproduce the original as close as you can. Pick an art book/website/YT channel to read/watch to get acquainted with art basics, terms, techniques and practice methods. | 1 | 25,863 | 5.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06ws19 | g06288e | 1,596,446,508 | 1,596,421,531 | 11 | 2 | Imagination is like motivation. People believe that these things come first and should carry you through it and if you don't have it then it's not for you, or you aren't talented. However, in reality while imagination and motivation might get you started you need to build habits and skills so that when motivation comes and your imagination runs wild you are able to actually take advantage of it. | this book is the one for you # The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence https://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774195 video review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrerOv73o8 | 1 | 24,977 | 5.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g05vw53 | g06fyym | 1,596,417,722 | 1,596,430,765 | 7 | 9 | yes, you can, not everyone are already great at drawing or have that great imaginations when they first started, you don't have to pressure yourself and compare youself to others especially if you just started to learn, just take your time to learn and be patient with your progress, you don't have to rush it bud | Yeah man, I started with barely being able to draw stick figures, it's been three months of constant practice and now I'm able to draw still life decently. It's absolutely possible to learn to draw. Some people are lucky enough to be born with a talent for it, but even they only get good enough to draw by practicing for hundreds of hours at first. Don't be discouraged because there are better artists, just start working and keep working hard. | 0 | 13,043 | 1.285714 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g060qya | g06fyym | 1,596,420,645 | 1,596,430,765 | 2 | 9 | Just start by copying a good photo or a screenshot from whatever movie/game you wish. You'll have a pic to aim for, if using a tablet set a grid in your program of choice and go to town trying to reproduce the original as close as you can. Pick an art book/website/YT channel to read/watch to get acquainted with art basics, terms, techniques and practice methods. | Yeah man, I started with barely being able to draw stick figures, it's been three months of constant practice and now I'm able to draw still life decently. It's absolutely possible to learn to draw. Some people are lucky enough to be born with a talent for it, but even they only get good enough to draw by practicing for hundreds of hours at first. Don't be discouraged because there are better artists, just start working and keep working hard. | 0 | 10,120 | 4.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06fyym | g06288e | 1,596,430,765 | 1,596,421,531 | 9 | 2 | Yeah man, I started with barely being able to draw stick figures, it's been three months of constant practice and now I'm able to draw still life decently. It's absolutely possible to learn to draw. Some people are lucky enough to be born with a talent for it, but even they only get good enough to draw by practicing for hundreds of hours at first. Don't be discouraged because there are better artists, just start working and keep working hard. | this book is the one for you # The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence https://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774195 video review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrerOv73o8 | 1 | 9,234 | 4.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g05vw53 | g063z4v | 1,596,417,722 | 1,596,422,593 | 7 | 9 | yes, you can, not everyone are already great at drawing or have that great imaginations when they first started, you don't have to pressure yourself and compare youself to others especially if you just started to learn, just take your time to learn and be patient with your progress, you don't have to rush it bud | Literally everyone sucked when they started. You see the results of thousands of hours of practice. You can literally find videos of people drawing with their feet because they spent thousands of hours doing it. You can be great at a lot of things granted that you are willing to put in the time | 0 | 4,871 | 1.285714 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g063z4v | g060qya | 1,596,422,593 | 1,596,420,645 | 9 | 2 | Literally everyone sucked when they started. You see the results of thousands of hours of practice. You can literally find videos of people drawing with their feet because they spent thousands of hours doing it. You can be great at a lot of things granted that you are willing to put in the time | Just start by copying a good photo or a screenshot from whatever movie/game you wish. You'll have a pic to aim for, if using a tablet set a grid in your program of choice and go to town trying to reproduce the original as close as you can. Pick an art book/website/YT channel to read/watch to get acquainted with art basics, terms, techniques and practice methods. | 1 | 1,948 | 4.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g063z4v | g06288e | 1,596,422,593 | 1,596,421,531 | 9 | 2 | Literally everyone sucked when they started. You see the results of thousands of hours of practice. You can literally find videos of people drawing with their feet because they spent thousands of hours doing it. You can be great at a lot of things granted that you are willing to put in the time | this book is the one for you # The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence https://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774195 video review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrerOv73o8 | 1 | 1,062 | 4.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g060qya | g06iiim | 1,596,420,645 | 1,596,432,764 | 2 | 7 | Just start by copying a good photo or a screenshot from whatever movie/game you wish. You'll have a pic to aim for, if using a tablet set a grid in your program of choice and go to town trying to reproduce the original as close as you can. Pick an art book/website/YT channel to read/watch to get acquainted with art basics, terms, techniques and practice methods. | There was a front page post about an Iranian woman who was massively disabled and so drew with her feet, and she made a realistic drawing. I think for the craft of drawing you'll be fine. | 0 | 12,119 | 3.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06iiim | g06288e | 1,596,432,764 | 1,596,421,531 | 7 | 2 | There was a front page post about an Iranian woman who was massively disabled and so drew with her feet, and she made a realistic drawing. I think for the craft of drawing you'll be fine. | this book is the one for you # The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence https://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774195 video review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrerOv73o8 | 1 | 11,233 | 3.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06rzi2 | g060qya | 1,596,441,548 | 1,596,420,645 | 7 | 2 | You can definitely learn how to draw it’s hard but I really is a skill just like any other. I don’t know how creative you’ll be if you truly are as unimaginative as you say, but at the very least you’ll be able to draw and paint realistic studies of people, animals, landscapes, etc... | Just start by copying a good photo or a screenshot from whatever movie/game you wish. You'll have a pic to aim for, if using a tablet set a grid in your program of choice and go to town trying to reproduce the original as close as you can. Pick an art book/website/YT channel to read/watch to get acquainted with art basics, terms, techniques and practice methods. | 1 | 20,903 | 3.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06rzi2 | g06288e | 1,596,441,548 | 1,596,421,531 | 7 | 2 | You can definitely learn how to draw it’s hard but I really is a skill just like any other. I don’t know how creative you’ll be if you truly are as unimaginative as you say, but at the very least you’ll be able to draw and paint realistic studies of people, animals, landscapes, etc... | this book is the one for you # The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence https://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774195 video review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrerOv73o8 | 1 | 20,017 | 3.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06g6qk | g060qya | 1,596,430,928 | 1,596,420,645 | 7 | 2 | Yes but you need to understand what you are doing wrong in order to improve | Just start by copying a good photo or a screenshot from whatever movie/game you wish. You'll have a pic to aim for, if using a tablet set a grid in your program of choice and go to town trying to reproduce the original as close as you can. Pick an art book/website/YT channel to read/watch to get acquainted with art basics, terms, techniques and practice methods. | 1 | 10,283 | 3.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06288e | g06g6qk | 1,596,421,531 | 1,596,430,928 | 2 | 7 | this book is the one for you # The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence https://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774195 video review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrerOv73o8 | Yes but you need to understand what you are doing wrong in order to improve | 0 | 9,397 | 3.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g060qya | g06tyiz | 1,596,420,645 | 1,596,443,558 | 2 | 5 | Just start by copying a good photo or a screenshot from whatever movie/game you wish. You'll have a pic to aim for, if using a tablet set a grid in your program of choice and go to town trying to reproduce the original as close as you can. Pick an art book/website/YT channel to read/watch to get acquainted with art basics, terms, techniques and practice methods. | Yes | 0 | 22,913 | 2.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06tyiz | g06288e | 1,596,443,558 | 1,596,421,531 | 5 | 2 | Yes | this book is the one for you # The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence https://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774195 video review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrerOv73o8 | 1 | 22,027 | 2.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g07phks | g060qya | 1,596,466,832 | 1,596,420,645 | 5 | 2 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp0q7f2uH-c A must watch | Just start by copying a good photo or a screenshot from whatever movie/game you wish. You'll have a pic to aim for, if using a tablet set a grid in your program of choice and go to town trying to reproduce the original as close as you can. Pick an art book/website/YT channel to read/watch to get acquainted with art basics, terms, techniques and practice methods. | 1 | 46,187 | 2.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06288e | g07phks | 1,596,421,531 | 1,596,466,832 | 2 | 5 | this book is the one for you # The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence https://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774195 video review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrerOv73o8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp0q7f2uH-c A must watch | 0 | 45,301 | 2.5 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g08sv56 | g060qya | 1,596,481,541 | 1,596,420,645 | 4 | 2 | Most artist don't draw over imagination | Just start by copying a good photo or a screenshot from whatever movie/game you wish. You'll have a pic to aim for, if using a tablet set a grid in your program of choice and go to town trying to reproduce the original as close as you can. Pick an art book/website/YT channel to read/watch to get acquainted with art basics, terms, techniques and practice methods. | 1 | 60,896 | 2 | ||
i2m9h3 | artfundamentals_train | 0.96 | Can ANYONE learn to draw even someone like who has sucks at it and dont have much imaginations ? As far as i can remember i always tried to draw but always everytime i was discouraged because i sucked greatly at it and didnt have much imaginations. Seing some people greatly good at it without doing much practice didnt help either. Are there people here who actually were bad and were able to improve and become somewhat decent ? | g06288e | g08sv56 | 1,596,421,531 | 1,596,481,541 | 2 | 4 | this book is the one for you # The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence https://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774195 video review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrerOv73o8 | Most artist don't draw over imagination | 0 | 60,010 | 2 | ||
oqz5h5 | artfundamentals_train | 0.97 | What's a good point to start learning figure drawing alongside DrawaBox? I want to do character design later. I was wondering when it'd be best to start figure drawing alongside DrawaBox Specifically, after which Lesson can I start figure drawing alongside? | h6f4mdl | h6fjizz | 1,627,170,742 | 1,627,179,098 | 16 | 21 | You can get started earlier if you want to, but I'd say the best point is after you've done lesson 4 and 5. In those lessons you get practice drawing animals with construction which will help you apply construction to drawing people. | Do gesture drawing alongside drawabox, because drawabox curriculum alone leans towards more rigid figure, you want to develop dynamism, exxageration from very early. | 0 | 8,356 | 1.3125 | ||
oqz5h5 | artfundamentals_train | 0.97 | What's a good point to start learning figure drawing alongside DrawaBox? I want to do character design later. I was wondering when it'd be best to start figure drawing alongside DrawaBox Specifically, after which Lesson can I start figure drawing alongside? | h6fjizz | h6f60sb | 1,627,179,098 | 1,627,171,517 | 21 | 8 | Do gesture drawing alongside drawabox, because drawabox curriculum alone leans towards more rigid figure, you want to develop dynamism, exxageration from very early. | I would do them at the same time | 1 | 7,581 | 2.625 | ||
oqz5h5 | artfundamentals_train | 0.97 | What's a good point to start learning figure drawing alongside DrawaBox? I want to do character design later. I was wondering when it'd be best to start figure drawing alongside DrawaBox Specifically, after which Lesson can I start figure drawing alongside? | h6f60sb | h6g21m7 | 1,627,171,517 | 1,627,191,172 | 8 | 10 | I would do them at the same time | Personally, I think there’s nothing wrong with doing both simultaneously. Draw-a-box is very ‘rigid’ and figure drawing is much more organic. They’re two different techniques, so I don’t think there should be a problem with learning both side by side. | 0 | 19,655 | 1.25 | ||
oqz5h5 | artfundamentals_train | 0.97 | What's a good point to start learning figure drawing alongside DrawaBox? I want to do character design later. I was wondering when it'd be best to start figure drawing alongside DrawaBox Specifically, after which Lesson can I start figure drawing alongside? | h6g21m7 | h6fz8qc | 1,627,191,172 | 1,627,189,103 | 10 | 6 | Personally, I think there’s nothing wrong with doing both simultaneously. Draw-a-box is very ‘rigid’ and figure drawing is much more organic. They’re two different techniques, so I don’t think there should be a problem with learning both side by side. | Right now | 1 | 2,069 | 1.666667 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iw9otvk | iwbhtw5 | 1,668,385,913 | 1,668,428,483 | 1 | 20 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | This is called "Ideation" and it's all about lists. Take out a piece of paper and list a bunch of things **that you are interested in** right off the top of your head. You shouldn't even have to really think about it, it's the things you enjoy thinking about every day. Examples: Horror movies, Sci-fi, Weapons, Space, Ancient Japan, Cavemen, Animals, Dinosaurs, Video Games, Mountains. Then you further specify things in those headings. i.e. Weapons - Sword, katana, rifle, Tonfa, Staff, flamethrower, any kind of weapon you like. Animals - Cat, Dog, Toucan, Hippo, Rhino, Cheetah. Include headings like 'Time Periods' and 'Seasons' and 'Time of Day' and list those out too. Once you have a big page full of headings and lists, you literally close your eyes and draw a squiggly line through all of it to see which subjects your line hits. Do that a handful of times and you'll have a good assortment of randomized drawing scenarios *built out of things you personally like*. It's a practiced skill, so the first ideas you get will likely be lame, but the more you do it, the better they'll become. Then you start drawing those scenarios. Weird juxtapositions are where interesting ideas come from. What would it look like if a T-Rex had Laser Rifle and was fighting a Giant Rooster in Snowy Mountains? If a Caveman had to deal with a Zombie, which Weapons would he need? What would a Toucan need to swim Underwater? Draw it. | 0 | 42,570 | 20 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iw9otvk | iwaliev | 1,668,385,913 | 1,668,402,434 | 1 | 8 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | Try using a random word generator to come up with prompts. Use 1-3 words. You can play with filters to have it only show nouns or adjectives or whatever inspires you. You don't have to go with the first prompt but don't spend too much time generating new prompts, explore the first prompt that gives you inspiration. And you don't have to finish anything. Can try sketching a prompt and if you're not feeling it try another one. You can also check out prompt lists for different drawing challenges like inktober and mermay. Just for the prompt lists, you don't have to follow the challenge rules unless you really want to (ie. You can use a prompt from mermay without actually drawing a mermaid) Draw this in your style challenges can be fun too if you don't want to come up with a composition yourself. | 0 | 16,521 | 8 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iw9otvk | iwaxnz4 | 1,668,385,913 | 1,668,411,480 | 1 | 6 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | Actually, it's not that hard. You can either draw whatever and however you want, or draw accordingly to what lesson you are on. I.e. If you are on a lesson 1 - draw a box. Add another box on top of that, and so on. Add some details or another shapes to make a building, car or whatever. Try to construct with boxes a robot or an animal. Smth like that. Lessons 2-7 are a lot easier to get an idea to draw, since they ain't only about the boxes. Just draw for the sake of drawing without much thinking with the application of the things you have learned. | 0 | 25,567 | 6 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iw9otvk | iwcpms6 | 1,668,385,913 | 1,668,448,399 | 1 | 3 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | I won't suggest anything particular, but here are my two cents of general. >if I wanted to do \[...\] lessons, I would want to also do \[...\] drawing for fun Learning and fun are not necessarily separate activities. They may overlap, and as you go further wherever it is you are going, they may converge to overlap more. Or they may not, different people are different. >I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun If you let me rephrase this for you, did you mean 'effortlessly' instead of 'badly'? Am I wrong to assume that you find joy in, shall we say, lack of pressure and freedom of expression, and not directly in a 'bad' result of it all? >I started DrawABox ages ago but All these lessons and exercises are aimed at one thing: you spend tons of effort on a subtask (perspective, shading, nice lines instead of shitty wobbly lines, knowing proportions of a whale's dick relative to the rest of the whale, etc), until that subtask gets done without effort, so you can focus on more important, interesting and complex matters. >inspiration comes fairly infrequently One way to think of inspiration, or having fresh ideas, is that these things are linked to your ability to actually do something. So let's talk rockets. I think it's only fair to say that someone is indeed inspired to build rockets, ifn this person has some idea about the steps involved, and knows what particular actions need to be taken somewhere in the conceivable future. Otherwise, it's just dreaming. And dreaming is fine, but only as long as zero rockets getting built is fine too. So, within this definition of inspiration, it's easy to see how crunching through dumb exercises, and expanding your skillset in visual arts, may lead to inspiration becoming a more frequent guest of yours. But then again, this is just one way to think of it. >the 50/50 rule All aforementioned being said, the '50/50 rule' is important. I never followed this rule, and that's how I seriously fucked up half my life, turned my mental health into one enormous dent in my mental health, and the only reason I'm writing this is I'm not man enough for suicide. 0/10 wouldn't recommend. Oh, shit, got distracted, I'm sorry. Anyway. The rule is important, yes, but '50/50' is just a short convenient name. What law says the actual ratio must be 50/50 exactly? Why not 70/30, or 90/10 this week and 10/90 next week? >if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily > >inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month Assuming inspiration comes once in two weeks, if you draw 'for fun' for N hours one day, and do 'boring' exercise for an hour/day during remaining 13 days, maybe leaving a few days to rest from drawing - this sounds like 50/50 rule to me. Not to mention inspiration may tend to visit more often when practicing regularly, and boring shit may tend to become not boring at all. >busy schedule Obviously, I'm not the one to give unsolicited life advice, but let's just say I'm thinking aloud. Some people with busy schedules have downtime, when they basically do nothing but wait for something. Like, commute, or water boiling and tea being too hot, or... I don't know, everybody has it different. Anyway, ifn we were talking playing tennis or shipbuilding, it would probably be a little inconvenient to wedge a few minutes in, while those cunts in the conference room are too busy bickering about bullshit. Drawing, however, may require very little, and it's easy to carry around. I think it'd be faster to list circumstances that make it impossible to draw, rather than those that favor it. If you are lucky enough to find it possible to make random drawing breaks here or there in-between other occupations, even if it accumulates to a seemingly laughable number of minutes per week - it might still be of great usefulness in the long run. >I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest Of course they don't. Nothing interests a human being, until some random minute thing suddenly does. That is the reason why I didn't write anything that directly answers your actual question. More often than not, things some people do to come up with ideas and kickstart their thinking, look like a complete bullshit to me (no offence to anyone). Conversely, things I do may not make any sense to anyone else. However, executing randomized prompts may be useful exactly because it may seem boring, and you don't want to draw it. Because, to do that, you must first think of a way to make it interesting. And this is just an another definition of creativity. >drawing from them is more practice than fun So yes, it's practice, too. Whatever starts as fun may end up boring or worthless. Whatever ends up fun may start as a mountain of pain. Having a fair share of joy while drawing is obviously necessary, but overcoming your own mind's inertia and doing shit you don't feel like doing -- sometimes one has to do that, too. Edit: I'm sorry for being obvious in the last sentence, I'm sure you don't need random strangers to remind you of basic facts of life. | 0 | 62,486 | 3 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iw9wvnx | iw9otvk | 1,668,389,690 | 1,668,385,913 | 2 | 1 | oh god i have literally the same exact problem | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 3,777 | 2 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iwb8adq | iw9otvk | 1,668,421,054 | 1,668,385,913 | 2 | 1 | You could draw something funny, maybe copy something you admire... Why'd you start learning to draw, did you have any project in mind? You could start the smallest version of that, just to see what it feels like. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 35,141 | 2 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iwbhtw5 | iwaliev | 1,668,428,483 | 1,668,402,434 | 20 | 8 | This is called "Ideation" and it's all about lists. Take out a piece of paper and list a bunch of things **that you are interested in** right off the top of your head. You shouldn't even have to really think about it, it's the things you enjoy thinking about every day. Examples: Horror movies, Sci-fi, Weapons, Space, Ancient Japan, Cavemen, Animals, Dinosaurs, Video Games, Mountains. Then you further specify things in those headings. i.e. Weapons - Sword, katana, rifle, Tonfa, Staff, flamethrower, any kind of weapon you like. Animals - Cat, Dog, Toucan, Hippo, Rhino, Cheetah. Include headings like 'Time Periods' and 'Seasons' and 'Time of Day' and list those out too. Once you have a big page full of headings and lists, you literally close your eyes and draw a squiggly line through all of it to see which subjects your line hits. Do that a handful of times and you'll have a good assortment of randomized drawing scenarios *built out of things you personally like*. It's a practiced skill, so the first ideas you get will likely be lame, but the more you do it, the better they'll become. Then you start drawing those scenarios. Weird juxtapositions are where interesting ideas come from. What would it look like if a T-Rex had Laser Rifle and was fighting a Giant Rooster in Snowy Mountains? If a Caveman had to deal with a Zombie, which Weapons would he need? What would a Toucan need to swim Underwater? Draw it. | Try using a random word generator to come up with prompts. Use 1-3 words. You can play with filters to have it only show nouns or adjectives or whatever inspires you. You don't have to go with the first prompt but don't spend too much time generating new prompts, explore the first prompt that gives you inspiration. And you don't have to finish anything. Can try sketching a prompt and if you're not feeling it try another one. You can also check out prompt lists for different drawing challenges like inktober and mermay. Just for the prompt lists, you don't have to follow the challenge rules unless you really want to (ie. You can use a prompt from mermay without actually drawing a mermaid) Draw this in your style challenges can be fun too if you don't want to come up with a composition yourself. | 1 | 26,049 | 2.5 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iwaxnz4 | iwbhtw5 | 1,668,411,480 | 1,668,428,483 | 6 | 20 | Actually, it's not that hard. You can either draw whatever and however you want, or draw accordingly to what lesson you are on. I.e. If you are on a lesson 1 - draw a box. Add another box on top of that, and so on. Add some details or another shapes to make a building, car or whatever. Try to construct with boxes a robot or an animal. Smth like that. Lessons 2-7 are a lot easier to get an idea to draw, since they ain't only about the boxes. Just draw for the sake of drawing without much thinking with the application of the things you have learned. | This is called "Ideation" and it's all about lists. Take out a piece of paper and list a bunch of things **that you are interested in** right off the top of your head. You shouldn't even have to really think about it, it's the things you enjoy thinking about every day. Examples: Horror movies, Sci-fi, Weapons, Space, Ancient Japan, Cavemen, Animals, Dinosaurs, Video Games, Mountains. Then you further specify things in those headings. i.e. Weapons - Sword, katana, rifle, Tonfa, Staff, flamethrower, any kind of weapon you like. Animals - Cat, Dog, Toucan, Hippo, Rhino, Cheetah. Include headings like 'Time Periods' and 'Seasons' and 'Time of Day' and list those out too. Once you have a big page full of headings and lists, you literally close your eyes and draw a squiggly line through all of it to see which subjects your line hits. Do that a handful of times and you'll have a good assortment of randomized drawing scenarios *built out of things you personally like*. It's a practiced skill, so the first ideas you get will likely be lame, but the more you do it, the better they'll become. Then you start drawing those scenarios. Weird juxtapositions are where interesting ideas come from. What would it look like if a T-Rex had Laser Rifle and was fighting a Giant Rooster in Snowy Mountains? If a Caveman had to deal with a Zombie, which Weapons would he need? What would a Toucan need to swim Underwater? Draw it. | 0 | 17,003 | 3.333333 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iwbhtw5 | iw9wvnx | 1,668,428,483 | 1,668,389,690 | 20 | 2 | This is called "Ideation" and it's all about lists. Take out a piece of paper and list a bunch of things **that you are interested in** right off the top of your head. You shouldn't even have to really think about it, it's the things you enjoy thinking about every day. Examples: Horror movies, Sci-fi, Weapons, Space, Ancient Japan, Cavemen, Animals, Dinosaurs, Video Games, Mountains. Then you further specify things in those headings. i.e. Weapons - Sword, katana, rifle, Tonfa, Staff, flamethrower, any kind of weapon you like. Animals - Cat, Dog, Toucan, Hippo, Rhino, Cheetah. Include headings like 'Time Periods' and 'Seasons' and 'Time of Day' and list those out too. Once you have a big page full of headings and lists, you literally close your eyes and draw a squiggly line through all of it to see which subjects your line hits. Do that a handful of times and you'll have a good assortment of randomized drawing scenarios *built out of things you personally like*. It's a practiced skill, so the first ideas you get will likely be lame, but the more you do it, the better they'll become. Then you start drawing those scenarios. Weird juxtapositions are where interesting ideas come from. What would it look like if a T-Rex had Laser Rifle and was fighting a Giant Rooster in Snowy Mountains? If a Caveman had to deal with a Zombie, which Weapons would he need? What would a Toucan need to swim Underwater? Draw it. | oh god i have literally the same exact problem | 1 | 38,793 | 10 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iwb8adq | iwbhtw5 | 1,668,421,054 | 1,668,428,483 | 2 | 20 | You could draw something funny, maybe copy something you admire... Why'd you start learning to draw, did you have any project in mind? You could start the smallest version of that, just to see what it feels like. | This is called "Ideation" and it's all about lists. Take out a piece of paper and list a bunch of things **that you are interested in** right off the top of your head. You shouldn't even have to really think about it, it's the things you enjoy thinking about every day. Examples: Horror movies, Sci-fi, Weapons, Space, Ancient Japan, Cavemen, Animals, Dinosaurs, Video Games, Mountains. Then you further specify things in those headings. i.e. Weapons - Sword, katana, rifle, Tonfa, Staff, flamethrower, any kind of weapon you like. Animals - Cat, Dog, Toucan, Hippo, Rhino, Cheetah. Include headings like 'Time Periods' and 'Seasons' and 'Time of Day' and list those out too. Once you have a big page full of headings and lists, you literally close your eyes and draw a squiggly line through all of it to see which subjects your line hits. Do that a handful of times and you'll have a good assortment of randomized drawing scenarios *built out of things you personally like*. It's a practiced skill, so the first ideas you get will likely be lame, but the more you do it, the better they'll become. Then you start drawing those scenarios. Weird juxtapositions are where interesting ideas come from. What would it look like if a T-Rex had Laser Rifle and was fighting a Giant Rooster in Snowy Mountains? If a Caveman had to deal with a Zombie, which Weapons would he need? What would a Toucan need to swim Underwater? Draw it. | 0 | 7,429 | 10 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iwb4riz | iwbhtw5 | 1,668,417,818 | 1,668,428,483 | 1 | 20 | I'm drawing comic strips I like, for examples Calvin&Hobbes, Mafalda or anything by Quino or Peanuts. Line art, small drawings, gotta have proportions right and a decent line work. | This is called "Ideation" and it's all about lists. Take out a piece of paper and list a bunch of things **that you are interested in** right off the top of your head. You shouldn't even have to really think about it, it's the things you enjoy thinking about every day. Examples: Horror movies, Sci-fi, Weapons, Space, Ancient Japan, Cavemen, Animals, Dinosaurs, Video Games, Mountains. Then you further specify things in those headings. i.e. Weapons - Sword, katana, rifle, Tonfa, Staff, flamethrower, any kind of weapon you like. Animals - Cat, Dog, Toucan, Hippo, Rhino, Cheetah. Include headings like 'Time Periods' and 'Seasons' and 'Time of Day' and list those out too. Once you have a big page full of headings and lists, you literally close your eyes and draw a squiggly line through all of it to see which subjects your line hits. Do that a handful of times and you'll have a good assortment of randomized drawing scenarios *built out of things you personally like*. It's a practiced skill, so the first ideas you get will likely be lame, but the more you do it, the better they'll become. Then you start drawing those scenarios. Weird juxtapositions are where interesting ideas come from. What would it look like if a T-Rex had Laser Rifle and was fighting a Giant Rooster in Snowy Mountains? If a Caveman had to deal with a Zombie, which Weapons would he need? What would a Toucan need to swim Underwater? Draw it. | 0 | 10,665 | 20 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iw9wvnx | iwaliev | 1,668,389,690 | 1,668,402,434 | 2 | 8 | oh god i have literally the same exact problem | Try using a random word generator to come up with prompts. Use 1-3 words. You can play with filters to have it only show nouns or adjectives or whatever inspires you. You don't have to go with the first prompt but don't spend too much time generating new prompts, explore the first prompt that gives you inspiration. And you don't have to finish anything. Can try sketching a prompt and if you're not feeling it try another one. You can also check out prompt lists for different drawing challenges like inktober and mermay. Just for the prompt lists, you don't have to follow the challenge rules unless you really want to (ie. You can use a prompt from mermay without actually drawing a mermaid) Draw this in your style challenges can be fun too if you don't want to come up with a composition yourself. | 0 | 12,744 | 4 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iwaxnz4 | iw9wvnx | 1,668,411,480 | 1,668,389,690 | 6 | 2 | Actually, it's not that hard. You can either draw whatever and however you want, or draw accordingly to what lesson you are on. I.e. If you are on a lesson 1 - draw a box. Add another box on top of that, and so on. Add some details or another shapes to make a building, car or whatever. Try to construct with boxes a robot or an animal. Smth like that. Lessons 2-7 are a lot easier to get an idea to draw, since they ain't only about the boxes. Just draw for the sake of drawing without much thinking with the application of the things you have learned. | oh god i have literally the same exact problem | 1 | 21,790 | 3 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iwcpms6 | iw9wvnx | 1,668,448,399 | 1,668,389,690 | 3 | 2 | I won't suggest anything particular, but here are my two cents of general. >if I wanted to do \[...\] lessons, I would want to also do \[...\] drawing for fun Learning and fun are not necessarily separate activities. They may overlap, and as you go further wherever it is you are going, they may converge to overlap more. Or they may not, different people are different. >I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun If you let me rephrase this for you, did you mean 'effortlessly' instead of 'badly'? Am I wrong to assume that you find joy in, shall we say, lack of pressure and freedom of expression, and not directly in a 'bad' result of it all? >I started DrawABox ages ago but All these lessons and exercises are aimed at one thing: you spend tons of effort on a subtask (perspective, shading, nice lines instead of shitty wobbly lines, knowing proportions of a whale's dick relative to the rest of the whale, etc), until that subtask gets done without effort, so you can focus on more important, interesting and complex matters. >inspiration comes fairly infrequently One way to think of inspiration, or having fresh ideas, is that these things are linked to your ability to actually do something. So let's talk rockets. I think it's only fair to say that someone is indeed inspired to build rockets, ifn this person has some idea about the steps involved, and knows what particular actions need to be taken somewhere in the conceivable future. Otherwise, it's just dreaming. And dreaming is fine, but only as long as zero rockets getting built is fine too. So, within this definition of inspiration, it's easy to see how crunching through dumb exercises, and expanding your skillset in visual arts, may lead to inspiration becoming a more frequent guest of yours. But then again, this is just one way to think of it. >the 50/50 rule All aforementioned being said, the '50/50 rule' is important. I never followed this rule, and that's how I seriously fucked up half my life, turned my mental health into one enormous dent in my mental health, and the only reason I'm writing this is I'm not man enough for suicide. 0/10 wouldn't recommend. Oh, shit, got distracted, I'm sorry. Anyway. The rule is important, yes, but '50/50' is just a short convenient name. What law says the actual ratio must be 50/50 exactly? Why not 70/30, or 90/10 this week and 10/90 next week? >if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily > >inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month Assuming inspiration comes once in two weeks, if you draw 'for fun' for N hours one day, and do 'boring' exercise for an hour/day during remaining 13 days, maybe leaving a few days to rest from drawing - this sounds like 50/50 rule to me. Not to mention inspiration may tend to visit more often when practicing regularly, and boring shit may tend to become not boring at all. >busy schedule Obviously, I'm not the one to give unsolicited life advice, but let's just say I'm thinking aloud. Some people with busy schedules have downtime, when they basically do nothing but wait for something. Like, commute, or water boiling and tea being too hot, or... I don't know, everybody has it different. Anyway, ifn we were talking playing tennis or shipbuilding, it would probably be a little inconvenient to wedge a few minutes in, while those cunts in the conference room are too busy bickering about bullshit. Drawing, however, may require very little, and it's easy to carry around. I think it'd be faster to list circumstances that make it impossible to draw, rather than those that favor it. If you are lucky enough to find it possible to make random drawing breaks here or there in-between other occupations, even if it accumulates to a seemingly laughable number of minutes per week - it might still be of great usefulness in the long run. >I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest Of course they don't. Nothing interests a human being, until some random minute thing suddenly does. That is the reason why I didn't write anything that directly answers your actual question. More often than not, things some people do to come up with ideas and kickstart their thinking, look like a complete bullshit to me (no offence to anyone). Conversely, things I do may not make any sense to anyone else. However, executing randomized prompts may be useful exactly because it may seem boring, and you don't want to draw it. Because, to do that, you must first think of a way to make it interesting. And this is just an another definition of creativity. >drawing from them is more practice than fun So yes, it's practice, too. Whatever starts as fun may end up boring or worthless. Whatever ends up fun may start as a mountain of pain. Having a fair share of joy while drawing is obviously necessary, but overcoming your own mind's inertia and doing shit you don't feel like doing -- sometimes one has to do that, too. Edit: I'm sorry for being obvious in the last sentence, I'm sure you don't need random strangers to remind you of basic facts of life. | oh god i have literally the same exact problem | 1 | 58,709 | 1.5 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iwb8adq | iwcpms6 | 1,668,421,054 | 1,668,448,399 | 2 | 3 | You could draw something funny, maybe copy something you admire... Why'd you start learning to draw, did you have any project in mind? You could start the smallest version of that, just to see what it feels like. | I won't suggest anything particular, but here are my two cents of general. >if I wanted to do \[...\] lessons, I would want to also do \[...\] drawing for fun Learning and fun are not necessarily separate activities. They may overlap, and as you go further wherever it is you are going, they may converge to overlap more. Or they may not, different people are different. >I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun If you let me rephrase this for you, did you mean 'effortlessly' instead of 'badly'? Am I wrong to assume that you find joy in, shall we say, lack of pressure and freedom of expression, and not directly in a 'bad' result of it all? >I started DrawABox ages ago but All these lessons and exercises are aimed at one thing: you spend tons of effort on a subtask (perspective, shading, nice lines instead of shitty wobbly lines, knowing proportions of a whale's dick relative to the rest of the whale, etc), until that subtask gets done without effort, so you can focus on more important, interesting and complex matters. >inspiration comes fairly infrequently One way to think of inspiration, or having fresh ideas, is that these things are linked to your ability to actually do something. So let's talk rockets. I think it's only fair to say that someone is indeed inspired to build rockets, ifn this person has some idea about the steps involved, and knows what particular actions need to be taken somewhere in the conceivable future. Otherwise, it's just dreaming. And dreaming is fine, but only as long as zero rockets getting built is fine too. So, within this definition of inspiration, it's easy to see how crunching through dumb exercises, and expanding your skillset in visual arts, may lead to inspiration becoming a more frequent guest of yours. But then again, this is just one way to think of it. >the 50/50 rule All aforementioned being said, the '50/50 rule' is important. I never followed this rule, and that's how I seriously fucked up half my life, turned my mental health into one enormous dent in my mental health, and the only reason I'm writing this is I'm not man enough for suicide. 0/10 wouldn't recommend. Oh, shit, got distracted, I'm sorry. Anyway. The rule is important, yes, but '50/50' is just a short convenient name. What law says the actual ratio must be 50/50 exactly? Why not 70/30, or 90/10 this week and 10/90 next week? >if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily > >inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month Assuming inspiration comes once in two weeks, if you draw 'for fun' for N hours one day, and do 'boring' exercise for an hour/day during remaining 13 days, maybe leaving a few days to rest from drawing - this sounds like 50/50 rule to me. Not to mention inspiration may tend to visit more often when practicing regularly, and boring shit may tend to become not boring at all. >busy schedule Obviously, I'm not the one to give unsolicited life advice, but let's just say I'm thinking aloud. Some people with busy schedules have downtime, when they basically do nothing but wait for something. Like, commute, or water boiling and tea being too hot, or... I don't know, everybody has it different. Anyway, ifn we were talking playing tennis or shipbuilding, it would probably be a little inconvenient to wedge a few minutes in, while those cunts in the conference room are too busy bickering about bullshit. Drawing, however, may require very little, and it's easy to carry around. I think it'd be faster to list circumstances that make it impossible to draw, rather than those that favor it. If you are lucky enough to find it possible to make random drawing breaks here or there in-between other occupations, even if it accumulates to a seemingly laughable number of minutes per week - it might still be of great usefulness in the long run. >I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest Of course they don't. Nothing interests a human being, until some random minute thing suddenly does. That is the reason why I didn't write anything that directly answers your actual question. More often than not, things some people do to come up with ideas and kickstart their thinking, look like a complete bullshit to me (no offence to anyone). Conversely, things I do may not make any sense to anyone else. However, executing randomized prompts may be useful exactly because it may seem boring, and you don't want to draw it. Because, to do that, you must first think of a way to make it interesting. And this is just an another definition of creativity. >drawing from them is more practice than fun So yes, it's practice, too. Whatever starts as fun may end up boring or worthless. Whatever ends up fun may start as a mountain of pain. Having a fair share of joy while drawing is obviously necessary, but overcoming your own mind's inertia and doing shit you don't feel like doing -- sometimes one has to do that, too. Edit: I'm sorry for being obvious in the last sentence, I'm sure you don't need random strangers to remind you of basic facts of life. | 0 | 27,345 | 1.5 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iwcpms6 | iwb4riz | 1,668,448,399 | 1,668,417,818 | 3 | 1 | I won't suggest anything particular, but here are my two cents of general. >if I wanted to do \[...\] lessons, I would want to also do \[...\] drawing for fun Learning and fun are not necessarily separate activities. They may overlap, and as you go further wherever it is you are going, they may converge to overlap more. Or they may not, different people are different. >I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun If you let me rephrase this for you, did you mean 'effortlessly' instead of 'badly'? Am I wrong to assume that you find joy in, shall we say, lack of pressure and freedom of expression, and not directly in a 'bad' result of it all? >I started DrawABox ages ago but All these lessons and exercises are aimed at one thing: you spend tons of effort on a subtask (perspective, shading, nice lines instead of shitty wobbly lines, knowing proportions of a whale's dick relative to the rest of the whale, etc), until that subtask gets done without effort, so you can focus on more important, interesting and complex matters. >inspiration comes fairly infrequently One way to think of inspiration, or having fresh ideas, is that these things are linked to your ability to actually do something. So let's talk rockets. I think it's only fair to say that someone is indeed inspired to build rockets, ifn this person has some idea about the steps involved, and knows what particular actions need to be taken somewhere in the conceivable future. Otherwise, it's just dreaming. And dreaming is fine, but only as long as zero rockets getting built is fine too. So, within this definition of inspiration, it's easy to see how crunching through dumb exercises, and expanding your skillset in visual arts, may lead to inspiration becoming a more frequent guest of yours. But then again, this is just one way to think of it. >the 50/50 rule All aforementioned being said, the '50/50 rule' is important. I never followed this rule, and that's how I seriously fucked up half my life, turned my mental health into one enormous dent in my mental health, and the only reason I'm writing this is I'm not man enough for suicide. 0/10 wouldn't recommend. Oh, shit, got distracted, I'm sorry. Anyway. The rule is important, yes, but '50/50' is just a short convenient name. What law says the actual ratio must be 50/50 exactly? Why not 70/30, or 90/10 this week and 10/90 next week? >if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily > >inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month Assuming inspiration comes once in two weeks, if you draw 'for fun' for N hours one day, and do 'boring' exercise for an hour/day during remaining 13 days, maybe leaving a few days to rest from drawing - this sounds like 50/50 rule to me. Not to mention inspiration may tend to visit more often when practicing regularly, and boring shit may tend to become not boring at all. >busy schedule Obviously, I'm not the one to give unsolicited life advice, but let's just say I'm thinking aloud. Some people with busy schedules have downtime, when they basically do nothing but wait for something. Like, commute, or water boiling and tea being too hot, or... I don't know, everybody has it different. Anyway, ifn we were talking playing tennis or shipbuilding, it would probably be a little inconvenient to wedge a few minutes in, while those cunts in the conference room are too busy bickering about bullshit. Drawing, however, may require very little, and it's easy to carry around. I think it'd be faster to list circumstances that make it impossible to draw, rather than those that favor it. If you are lucky enough to find it possible to make random drawing breaks here or there in-between other occupations, even if it accumulates to a seemingly laughable number of minutes per week - it might still be of great usefulness in the long run. >I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest Of course they don't. Nothing interests a human being, until some random minute thing suddenly does. That is the reason why I didn't write anything that directly answers your actual question. More often than not, things some people do to come up with ideas and kickstart their thinking, look like a complete bullshit to me (no offence to anyone). Conversely, things I do may not make any sense to anyone else. However, executing randomized prompts may be useful exactly because it may seem boring, and you don't want to draw it. Because, to do that, you must first think of a way to make it interesting. And this is just an another definition of creativity. >drawing from them is more practice than fun So yes, it's practice, too. Whatever starts as fun may end up boring or worthless. Whatever ends up fun may start as a mountain of pain. Having a fair share of joy while drawing is obviously necessary, but overcoming your own mind's inertia and doing shit you don't feel like doing -- sometimes one has to do that, too. Edit: I'm sorry for being obvious in the last sentence, I'm sure you don't need random strangers to remind you of basic facts of life. | I'm drawing comic strips I like, for examples Calvin&Hobbes, Mafalda or anything by Quino or Peanuts. Line art, small drawings, gotta have proportions right and a decent line work. | 1 | 30,581 | 3 | ||
yujuu9 | artfundamentals_train | 0.92 | Finding Inspiration for the 50/50 Rule I started DrawABox ages ago but had trouble keeping up with it due to a busy schedule. I wanted to restart it when I have some time, but I'm having trouble with executing the 50/50 rule properly. I'm a total beginner with drawing, and I actually quite enjoy drawing badly for fun, but only when I have ideas in my head I want to execute (e.g. fanart of characters I like, interesting concepts from a dream, cool things I see in everyday life, etc.). When I do have those ideas, I'll spend hours just drawing. But this inspiration comes fairly infrequently, maybe once or twice a month, especially relative to how often I would want to do the lessons. For instance, if I wanted to do 15-30 minutes of the lessons daily, I would want to also do 15-30 minutes of drawing for fun daily. But I don't necessarily have enticing ideas that I want to draw daily; this makes it hard for me to do the "play/fun" part of the 50/50 rule as equally as the "learning/practice" part. I've tried apps like Sketch a Day to prompt me, but sometimes the prompts don't interest me and it feels like drawing from them is more practice than fun. Any thoughts or suggestions for this problem? | iwb8adq | iwb4riz | 1,668,421,054 | 1,668,417,818 | 2 | 1 | You could draw something funny, maybe copy something you admire... Why'd you start learning to draw, did you have any project in mind? You could start the smallest version of that, just to see what it feels like. | I'm drawing comic strips I like, for examples Calvin&Hobbes, Mafalda or anything by Quino or Peanuts. Line art, small drawings, gotta have proportions right and a decent line work. | 1 | 3,236 | 2 | ||
y3f3xw | artfundamentals_train | 0.91 | I have not done any drawabox for around two months, should I just pick back up or restart? I stopped right after the funnels exercise in lesson 1. After I stopped around two months ago, I've just been drawing for fun (majority digital). Would it be a good idea to start the homeworks from the very beginning or maybe just do some warmups before going into boxes? | is8i0ua | is88foq | 1,665,712,100 | 1,665,707,804 | 19 | 1 | From my experience, it's better if you pick back up from where you stopped and just continue What could happen is that you would start from the beginning, not be motivated to do it again, stop and be in the same situation a couple of months later. Just continue, go back to the things you think you're having trouble on if that happens | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 4,296 | 19 | ||
y3f3xw | artfundamentals_train | 0.91 | I have not done any drawabox for around two months, should I just pick back up or restart? I stopped right after the funnels exercise in lesson 1. After I stopped around two months ago, I've just been drawing for fun (majority digital). Would it be a good idea to start the homeworks from the very beginning or maybe just do some warmups before going into boxes? | is88foq | is8xtiq | 1,665,707,804 | 1,665,719,835 | 1 | 13 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | Two months probably isn't enough time for you to have forgotten everything. Reread the parts you've done to refresh your memory and then pick up where you left off | 0 | 12,031 | 13 | ||
y3f3xw | artfundamentals_train | 0.91 | I have not done any drawabox for around two months, should I just pick back up or restart? I stopped right after the funnels exercise in lesson 1. After I stopped around two months ago, I've just been drawing for fun (majority digital). Would it be a good idea to start the homeworks from the very beginning or maybe just do some warmups before going into boxes? | is88foq | is9q0gj | 1,665,707,804 | 1,665,741,396 | 1 | 8 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | Do a few warm ups from the earlier stuff, not a whole lesson, just 10-15 minutes of doing a few things as a little reminder and get the blood flowing, then pick right back up where you left off. | 0 | 33,592 | 8 | ||
y3f3xw | artfundamentals_train | 0.91 | I have not done any drawabox for around two months, should I just pick back up or restart? I stopped right after the funnels exercise in lesson 1. After I stopped around two months ago, I've just been drawing for fun (majority digital). Would it be a good idea to start the homeworks from the very beginning or maybe just do some warmups before going into boxes? | isa5w2v | is88foq | 1,665,751,514 | 1,665,707,804 | 9 | 1 | You still are pretty early in the lessons. Might as well pick up where you left off. Maybe fill a single page with a few of the previous exercises. Remember the whole shoulder and the ghosting method | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 43,710 | 9 | ||
y3f3xw | artfundamentals_train | 0.91 | I have not done any drawabox for around two months, should I just pick back up or restart? I stopped right after the funnels exercise in lesson 1. After I stopped around two months ago, I've just been drawing for fun (majority digital). Would it be a good idea to start the homeworks from the very beginning or maybe just do some warmups before going into boxes? | is88foq | isa9vzb | 1,665,707,804 | 1,665,753,430 | 1 | 9 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | If you plan on going anywhere with your art, you'll be doing all of the lessons at least a few times over... Restart wherever you feel motivated to start. Just restart. And restart. And restart. No matter what, restart. Eventually you'll get it done. | 0 | 45,626 | 9 | ||
y3f3xw | artfundamentals_train | 0.91 | I have not done any drawabox for around two months, should I just pick back up or restart? I stopped right after the funnels exercise in lesson 1. After I stopped around two months ago, I've just been drawing for fun (majority digital). Would it be a good idea to start the homeworks from the very beginning or maybe just do some warmups before going into boxes? | iscu4z5 | is88foq | 1,665,791,779 | 1,665,707,804 | 2 | 1 | I am also in a rut.. 6 months now and I’m questioning everything. I thought I loved this, what happened to the drive I had last year. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 83,975 | 2 | ||
y3f3xw | artfundamentals_train | 0.91 | I have not done any drawabox for around two months, should I just pick back up or restart? I stopped right after the funnels exercise in lesson 1. After I stopped around two months ago, I've just been drawing for fun (majority digital). Would it be a good idea to start the homeworks from the very beginning or maybe just do some warmups before going into boxes? | isa5w2v | is9q0gj | 1,665,751,514 | 1,665,741,396 | 9 | 8 | You still are pretty early in the lessons. Might as well pick up where you left off. Maybe fill a single page with a few of the previous exercises. Remember the whole shoulder and the ghosting method | Do a few warm ups from the earlier stuff, not a whole lesson, just 10-15 minutes of doing a few things as a little reminder and get the blood flowing, then pick right back up where you left off. | 1 | 10,118 | 1.125 | ||
y3f3xw | artfundamentals_train | 0.91 | I have not done any drawabox for around two months, should I just pick back up or restart? I stopped right after the funnels exercise in lesson 1. After I stopped around two months ago, I've just been drawing for fun (majority digital). Would it be a good idea to start the homeworks from the very beginning or maybe just do some warmups before going into boxes? | isa9vzb | is9q0gj | 1,665,753,430 | 1,665,741,396 | 9 | 8 | If you plan on going anywhere with your art, you'll be doing all of the lessons at least a few times over... Restart wherever you feel motivated to start. Just restart. And restart. And restart. No matter what, restart. Eventually you'll get it done. | Do a few warm ups from the earlier stuff, not a whole lesson, just 10-15 minutes of doing a few things as a little reminder and get the blood flowing, then pick right back up where you left off. | 1 | 12,034 | 1.125 | ||
y3f3xw | artfundamentals_train | 0.91 | I have not done any drawabox for around two months, should I just pick back up or restart? I stopped right after the funnels exercise in lesson 1. After I stopped around two months ago, I've just been drawing for fun (majority digital). Would it be a good idea to start the homeworks from the very beginning or maybe just do some warmups before going into boxes? | isatj06 | iscu4z5 | 1,665,761,600 | 1,665,791,779 | -9 | 2 | Restart. Without a doubt. | I am also in a rut.. 6 months now and I’m questioning everything. I thought I loved this, what happened to the drive I had last year. | 0 | 30,179 | -0.222222 | ||
v1c2cq | artfundamentals_train | 0.78 | Should I restart DrawABox after 4 months of not drawing? I completed Lesson 1 and the 250 boxes challenge and stopped at the textures lesson due to circumstances. It took me a long time to complete and I'm afraid that restarting everything will make my drawings skills take even longer time to reach a decent level. I don't know what I should do and if it's alright to just pick up from where I stopped. | ialrwr6 | ialr8li | 1,653,955,561 | 1,653,955,213 | 4 | 2 | I would be a terrible person to take advice from. I've restarted three different times and I don't take the advice to make mistakes and move on until I'm happy with a lesson | Yes | 1 | 348 | 2 | ||
w6xbtz | artfundamentals_train | 0.9 | My main struggle with art has been drawing symmetry and straight lines, will drawabox help me improve that or should i get better before diving into the course | ihgh1i2 | ihgg6n0 | 1,658,675,992 | 1,658,675,620 | 8 | 3 | You don't need to get better at anything before diving into the course. | Drawabox is great for that. The early lessons are all about drawing lines confidently | 1 | 372 | 2.666667 | ||
w6xbtz | artfundamentals_train | 0.9 | My main struggle with art has been drawing symmetry and straight lines, will drawabox help me improve that or should i get better before diving into the course | ihgh1i2 | ihgfn12 | 1,658,675,992 | 1,658,675,385 | 8 | 3 | You don't need to get better at anything before diving into the course. | Drawabox will also help with that. I also struggled with drawing straight lines, but now It’s way easier for me after doing lesson 1. | 1 | 607 | 2.666667 | ||
y1n4gz | artfundamentals_train | 0.97 | Should I Restart After Being Extremely Inconsistent? I started DrawABox about 2 years ago and since then I have finished Lesson 1 and for the past year I have been “working” on the 250 boxes. I feel like going in and out of DAB like seasons isn’t effective and if I redid it now and took it more seriously I would improve more as a whole than if I kept going from my current amount of boxes (170). | is09zdf | iryauap | 1,665,573,385 | 1,665,529,137 | 28 | 1 | >Should I Restart After Being Extremely Inconsistent? The answer is yes. You should always restart and restart and restart. That's how you eventually learn and understand. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 44,248 | 28 | ||
y1n4gz | artfundamentals_train | 0.97 | Should I Restart After Being Extremely Inconsistent? I started DrawABox about 2 years ago and since then I have finished Lesson 1 and for the past year I have been “working” on the 250 boxes. I feel like going in and out of DAB like seasons isn’t effective and if I redid it now and took it more seriously I would improve more as a whole than if I kept going from my current amount of boxes (170). | iryauap | iryzxi4 | 1,665,529,137 | 1,665,540,751 | 1 | 23 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | The purpose pf the 250 boxes is to show you how drawing works, 250 boxes is a fraction to the amount of drawings one makes to learn the fundamentals. The second point is that, do you think your boxes right now are better or worse than before? If you feel your hand coordination did improve, and your boxes are more what is show on demos, then you need to keep going, if not, try to start lessons from zero, that's what I would do. | 0 | 11,614 | 23 | ||
y1n4gz | artfundamentals_train | 0.97 | Should I Restart After Being Extremely Inconsistent? I started DrawABox about 2 years ago and since then I have finished Lesson 1 and for the past year I have been “working” on the 250 boxes. I feel like going in and out of DAB like seasons isn’t effective and if I redid it now and took it more seriously I would improve more as a whole than if I kept going from my current amount of boxes (170). | iryauap | irzwgse | 1,665,529,137 | 1,665,562,211 | 1 | 15 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | One of my teacher said that art is muscle memory, if you don't practice you get rusty and despite learning the stuff the rust is still there So similar to the other comment, it really depends on how confident your coordination is | 0 | 33,074 | 15 | ||
y1n4gz | artfundamentals_train | 0.97 | Should I Restart After Being Extremely Inconsistent? I started DrawABox about 2 years ago and since then I have finished Lesson 1 and for the past year I have been “working” on the 250 boxes. I feel like going in and out of DAB like seasons isn’t effective and if I redid it now and took it more seriously I would improve more as a whole than if I kept going from my current amount of boxes (170). | is46yqz | iryauap | 1,665,634,778 | 1,665,529,137 | 4 | 1 | My opinion is that if you already struggle with consistency, restarting is the absolute worst thing you could do. You need to maintain forward momentum or you'll never get anywhere. If you want to commit to taking it more seriously then do that with the 250 box challenge while setting aside some time to revise. Now if you are good at seeing your goals to completion, and just didn't take drawabox seriously, it would be okay to restart. I think it depends on the specifics in that case. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 105,641 | 4 | ||
y1n4gz | artfundamentals_train | 0.97 | Should I Restart After Being Extremely Inconsistent? I started DrawABox about 2 years ago and since then I have finished Lesson 1 and for the past year I have been “working” on the 250 boxes. I feel like going in and out of DAB like seasons isn’t effective and if I redid it now and took it more seriously I would improve more as a whole than if I kept going from my current amount of boxes (170). | is09zdf | iryzxi4 | 1,665,573,385 | 1,665,540,751 | 28 | 23 | >Should I Restart After Being Extremely Inconsistent? The answer is yes. You should always restart and restart and restart. That's how you eventually learn and understand. | The purpose pf the 250 boxes is to show you how drawing works, 250 boxes is a fraction to the amount of drawings one makes to learn the fundamentals. The second point is that, do you think your boxes right now are better or worse than before? If you feel your hand coordination did improve, and your boxes are more what is show on demos, then you need to keep going, if not, try to start lessons from zero, that's what I would do. | 1 | 32,634 | 1.217391 | ||
y1n4gz | artfundamentals_train | 0.97 | Should I Restart After Being Extremely Inconsistent? I started DrawABox about 2 years ago and since then I have finished Lesson 1 and for the past year I have been “working” on the 250 boxes. I feel like going in and out of DAB like seasons isn’t effective and if I redid it now and took it more seriously I would improve more as a whole than if I kept going from my current amount of boxes (170). | irzwgse | is09zdf | 1,665,562,211 | 1,665,573,385 | 15 | 28 | One of my teacher said that art is muscle memory, if you don't practice you get rusty and despite learning the stuff the rust is still there So similar to the other comment, it really depends on how confident your coordination is | >Should I Restart After Being Extremely Inconsistent? The answer is yes. You should always restart and restart and restart. That's how you eventually learn and understand. | 0 | 11,174 | 1.866667 | ||
y1n4gz | artfundamentals_train | 0.97 | Should I Restart After Being Extremely Inconsistent? I started DrawABox about 2 years ago and since then I have finished Lesson 1 and for the past year I have been “working” on the 250 boxes. I feel like going in and out of DAB like seasons isn’t effective and if I redid it now and took it more seriously I would improve more as a whole than if I kept going from my current amount of boxes (170). | is2sob0 | is46yqz | 1,665,611,564 | 1,665,634,778 | 1 | 4 | I restarted from lesson 0 three times. I finally made it through plant construction and am going forward from there. | My opinion is that if you already struggle with consistency, restarting is the absolute worst thing you could do. You need to maintain forward momentum or you'll never get anywhere. If you want to commit to taking it more seriously then do that with the 250 box challenge while setting aside some time to revise. Now if you are good at seeing your goals to completion, and just didn't take drawabox seriously, it would be okay to restart. I think it depends on the specifics in that case. | 0 | 23,214 | 4 | ||
xvlq43 | artfundamentals_train | 0.94 | Should I restart lesson 1? To be brief, I completed lesson one and was about to start the 250 box challenge, but I procrastinated and got caught up in a preparing for college. Since then, I haven’t even picked up a pen for drawing. So should I start from the beginning? Or should I continue with the 250 boxes? | ir1lsmd | ir3sjht | 1,664,905,873 | 1,664,938,899 | 1 | 18 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | The lessons stress really taking your time to make sure you get the proper idea of the exercises. If it's been 5 months I would say it's in the best interest of your own progress to restart my friend. | 0 | 33,026 | 18 | ||
xvlq43 | artfundamentals_train | 0.94 | Should I restart lesson 1? To be brief, I completed lesson one and was about to start the 250 box challenge, but I procrastinated and got caught up in a preparing for college. Since then, I haven’t even picked up a pen for drawing. So should I start from the beginning? Or should I continue with the 250 boxes? | ir1lsmd | ir29v41 | 1,664,905,873 | 1,664,914,829 | 1 | 16 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | Maybe an unpopular opinion, but if you have to ask yourself that than probably. We can tell you all you want that you don't *have* to, but in the end **you** are the one doing this so **only you** would know the correct answer regardless of what we tell you. Maybe just start the 250 box challenge anyways and see how it goes and how you feel. Sometimes you just gotta say screw it and do it anyways just to see what happens | 0 | 8,956 | 16 | ||
xvlq43 | artfundamentals_train | 0.94 | Should I restart lesson 1? To be brief, I completed lesson one and was about to start the 250 box challenge, but I procrastinated and got caught up in a preparing for college. Since then, I haven’t even picked up a pen for drawing. So should I start from the beginning? Or should I continue with the 250 boxes? | ir29fvv | ir1lsmd | 1,664,914,674 | 1,664,905,873 | 16 | 1 | No just mess around with some of the lesson 1 exercises then get back on the horse. Your lesson one was great no need to redo | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 8,801 | 16 | ||
xvlq43 | artfundamentals_train | 0.94 | Should I restart lesson 1? To be brief, I completed lesson one and was about to start the 250 box challenge, but I procrastinated and got caught up in a preparing for college. Since then, I haven’t even picked up a pen for drawing. So should I start from the beginning? Or should I continue with the 250 boxes? | ir2j31b | ir1lsmd | 1,664,918,259 | 1,664,905,873 | 9 | 1 | How long has it been since you last drew? | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 12,386 | 9 | ||
xvlq43 | artfundamentals_train | 0.94 | Should I restart lesson 1? To be brief, I completed lesson one and was about to start the 250 box challenge, but I procrastinated and got caught up in a preparing for college. Since then, I haven’t even picked up a pen for drawing. So should I start from the beginning? Or should I continue with the 250 boxes? | ir1lsmd | ir5onlg | 1,664,905,873 | 1,664,982,130 | 1 | 3 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | I’d do the lines and ghosting practice at least. But you should do that as warm-up anyway. | 0 | 76,257 | 3 | ||
xvlq43 | artfundamentals_train | 0.94 | Should I restart lesson 1? To be brief, I completed lesson one and was about to start the 250 box challenge, but I procrastinated and got caught up in a preparing for college. Since then, I haven’t even picked up a pen for drawing. So should I start from the beginning? Or should I continue with the 250 boxes? | ir3sjht | ir29v41 | 1,664,938,899 | 1,664,914,829 | 18 | 16 | The lessons stress really taking your time to make sure you get the proper idea of the exercises. If it's been 5 months I would say it's in the best interest of your own progress to restart my friend. | Maybe an unpopular opinion, but if you have to ask yourself that than probably. We can tell you all you want that you don't *have* to, but in the end **you** are the one doing this so **only you** would know the correct answer regardless of what we tell you. Maybe just start the 250 box challenge anyways and see how it goes and how you feel. Sometimes you just gotta say screw it and do it anyways just to see what happens | 1 | 24,070 | 1.125 | ||
xvlq43 | artfundamentals_train | 0.94 | Should I restart lesson 1? To be brief, I completed lesson one and was about to start the 250 box challenge, but I procrastinated and got caught up in a preparing for college. Since then, I haven’t even picked up a pen for drawing. So should I start from the beginning? Or should I continue with the 250 boxes? | ir29fvv | ir3sjht | 1,664,914,674 | 1,664,938,899 | 16 | 18 | No just mess around with some of the lesson 1 exercises then get back on the horse. Your lesson one was great no need to redo | The lessons stress really taking your time to make sure you get the proper idea of the exercises. If it's been 5 months I would say it's in the best interest of your own progress to restart my friend. | 0 | 24,225 | 1.125 | ||
xvlq43 | artfundamentals_train | 0.94 | Should I restart lesson 1? To be brief, I completed lesson one and was about to start the 250 box challenge, but I procrastinated and got caught up in a preparing for college. Since then, I haven’t even picked up a pen for drawing. So should I start from the beginning? Or should I continue with the 250 boxes? | ir2j31b | ir3sjht | 1,664,918,259 | 1,664,938,899 | 9 | 18 | How long has it been since you last drew? | The lessons stress really taking your time to make sure you get the proper idea of the exercises. If it's been 5 months I would say it's in the best interest of your own progress to restart my friend. | 0 | 20,640 | 2 | ||
ccje6i | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | What should I begin with? Drawabox or Human figure? Recently I bought *Andrew Loomis' Human Figure Drawing* because I wanted to learn how to draw better and more "realistic" things with the basics like perspective, ratios, etc. But then I discovered this sub with all the lessons and everything. Now I don't know what should I do first, should I master the lessons on drawabox before going into human figure or the other way around? | etns4hv | eto0u4v | 1,562,998,140 | 1,563,008,226 | 16 | 22 | Drawabox is so fundamental that it shows up everywhere in figure drawing. If you have the fundamentals down, progression in figure drawing is faster. You never stop drawing boxes and cylinders. Getting very good with those first is my recommendation. | You need the fundamentals man. Some time ago i was fooled by Jazza and other assholes. What you need is the fundamentals. Nothing else. And from there things will come natural to you. I recomend you Do drawabox and draw shitload of boxes. Get one/two"three-PP perspective deep into your intuition and watch Moderndayjames on Youtube. Have a nice day! | 0 | 10,086 | 1.375 | ||
ccje6i | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | What should I begin with? Drawabox or Human figure? Recently I bought *Andrew Loomis' Human Figure Drawing* because I wanted to learn how to draw better and more "realistic" things with the basics like perspective, ratios, etc. But then I discovered this sub with all the lessons and everything. Now I don't know what should I do first, should I master the lessons on drawabox before going into human figure or the other way around? | eto0u4v | etny0yj | 1,563,008,226 | 1,563,004,766 | 22 | 9 | You need the fundamentals man. Some time ago i was fooled by Jazza and other assholes. What you need is the fundamentals. Nothing else. And from there things will come natural to you. I recomend you Do drawabox and draw shitload of boxes. Get one/two"three-PP perspective deep into your intuition and watch Moderndayjames on Youtube. Have a nice day! | Draw-a-Box tends to focus more towards the important fundamentals that an artist must understand (however, in my opinion) I think you should start with draw-a-Box first. In-order to get a good grasp of the fundamentals, Not to forget that Draw-a-Box is much more user friendly and stream-lined (currently going into “lesson 3” and so far..it’s been pretty damn helpful) Edit: some fundamentals may differ from that of Draw-a-Box, so you’ll have to be careful about that. | 1 | 3,460 | 2.444444 | ||
ccje6i | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | What should I begin with? Drawabox or Human figure? Recently I bought *Andrew Loomis' Human Figure Drawing* because I wanted to learn how to draw better and more "realistic" things with the basics like perspective, ratios, etc. But then I discovered this sub with all the lessons and everything. Now I don't know what should I do first, should I master the lessons on drawabox before going into human figure or the other way around? | eto0u4v | etnvksa | 1,563,008,226 | 1,563,001,915 | 22 | 8 | You need the fundamentals man. Some time ago i was fooled by Jazza and other assholes. What you need is the fundamentals. Nothing else. And from there things will come natural to you. I recomend you Do drawabox and draw shitload of boxes. Get one/two"three-PP perspective deep into your intuition and watch Moderndayjames on Youtube. Have a nice day! | I'm in the process of both. I'd say do at least the first 2 Drawabox lessons before loomis. Having those basics down really helps you visualize what loomis is talking about. | 1 | 6,311 | 2.75 | ||
ccje6i | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | What should I begin with? Drawabox or Human figure? Recently I bought *Andrew Loomis' Human Figure Drawing* because I wanted to learn how to draw better and more "realistic" things with the basics like perspective, ratios, etc. But then I discovered this sub with all the lessons and everything. Now I don't know what should I do first, should I master the lessons on drawabox before going into human figure or the other way around? | eto079w | eto0u4v | 1,563,007,411 | 1,563,008,226 | 4 | 22 | do draw a box first, it's a lot easier than the human figure | You need the fundamentals man. Some time ago i was fooled by Jazza and other assholes. What you need is the fundamentals. Nothing else. And from there things will come natural to you. I recomend you Do drawabox and draw shitload of boxes. Get one/two"three-PP perspective deep into your intuition and watch Moderndayjames on Youtube. Have a nice day! | 0 | 815 | 5.5 | ||
ccje6i | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | What should I begin with? Drawabox or Human figure? Recently I bought *Andrew Loomis' Human Figure Drawing* because I wanted to learn how to draw better and more "realistic" things with the basics like perspective, ratios, etc. But then I discovered this sub with all the lessons and everything. Now I don't know what should I do first, should I master the lessons on drawabox before going into human figure or the other way around? | etns4hv | eto5v57 | 1,562,998,140 | 1,563,015,339 | 16 | 18 | Drawabox is so fundamental that it shows up everywhere in figure drawing. If you have the fundamentals down, progression in figure drawing is faster. You never stop drawing boxes and cylinders. Getting very good with those first is my recommendation. | Figure drawing doesn’t inform drawing inorganic subjects very much. It can, but the goal of Loomis is to draw the figure. But these lessons will definitely inform figure drawing, if that makes sense. I think it makes much more sense to start with this, then Loomis. Then again, everybody learns differently and I would expect to revisit both as needed. | 0 | 17,199 | 1.125 | ||
ccje6i | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | What should I begin with? Drawabox or Human figure? Recently I bought *Andrew Loomis' Human Figure Drawing* because I wanted to learn how to draw better and more "realistic" things with the basics like perspective, ratios, etc. But then I discovered this sub with all the lessons and everything. Now I don't know what should I do first, should I master the lessons on drawabox before going into human figure or the other way around? | etny0yj | eto5v57 | 1,563,004,766 | 1,563,015,339 | 9 | 18 | Draw-a-Box tends to focus more towards the important fundamentals that an artist must understand (however, in my opinion) I think you should start with draw-a-Box first. In-order to get a good grasp of the fundamentals, Not to forget that Draw-a-Box is much more user friendly and stream-lined (currently going into “lesson 3” and so far..it’s been pretty damn helpful) Edit: some fundamentals may differ from that of Draw-a-Box, so you’ll have to be careful about that. | Figure drawing doesn’t inform drawing inorganic subjects very much. It can, but the goal of Loomis is to draw the figure. But these lessons will definitely inform figure drawing, if that makes sense. I think it makes much more sense to start with this, then Loomis. Then again, everybody learns differently and I would expect to revisit both as needed. | 0 | 10,573 | 2 | ||
ccje6i | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | What should I begin with? Drawabox or Human figure? Recently I bought *Andrew Loomis' Human Figure Drawing* because I wanted to learn how to draw better and more "realistic" things with the basics like perspective, ratios, etc. But then I discovered this sub with all the lessons and everything. Now I don't know what should I do first, should I master the lessons on drawabox before going into human figure or the other way around? | eto5v57 | etnvksa | 1,563,015,339 | 1,563,001,915 | 18 | 8 | Figure drawing doesn’t inform drawing inorganic subjects very much. It can, but the goal of Loomis is to draw the figure. But these lessons will definitely inform figure drawing, if that makes sense. I think it makes much more sense to start with this, then Loomis. Then again, everybody learns differently and I would expect to revisit both as needed. | I'm in the process of both. I'd say do at least the first 2 Drawabox lessons before loomis. Having those basics down really helps you visualize what loomis is talking about. | 1 | 13,424 | 2.25 | ||
ccje6i | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | What should I begin with? Drawabox or Human figure? Recently I bought *Andrew Loomis' Human Figure Drawing* because I wanted to learn how to draw better and more "realistic" things with the basics like perspective, ratios, etc. But then I discovered this sub with all the lessons and everything. Now I don't know what should I do first, should I master the lessons on drawabox before going into human figure or the other way around? | eto5v57 | eto079w | 1,563,015,339 | 1,563,007,411 | 18 | 4 | Figure drawing doesn’t inform drawing inorganic subjects very much. It can, but the goal of Loomis is to draw the figure. But these lessons will definitely inform figure drawing, if that makes sense. I think it makes much more sense to start with this, then Loomis. Then again, everybody learns differently and I would expect to revisit both as needed. | do draw a box first, it's a lot easier than the human figure | 1 | 7,928 | 4.5 | ||
ccje6i | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | What should I begin with? Drawabox or Human figure? Recently I bought *Andrew Loomis' Human Figure Drawing* because I wanted to learn how to draw better and more "realistic" things with the basics like perspective, ratios, etc. But then I discovered this sub with all the lessons and everything. Now I don't know what should I do first, should I master the lessons on drawabox before going into human figure or the other way around? | etny0yj | etnvksa | 1,563,004,766 | 1,563,001,915 | 9 | 8 | Draw-a-Box tends to focus more towards the important fundamentals that an artist must understand (however, in my opinion) I think you should start with draw-a-Box first. In-order to get a good grasp of the fundamentals, Not to forget that Draw-a-Box is much more user friendly and stream-lined (currently going into “lesson 3” and so far..it’s been pretty damn helpful) Edit: some fundamentals may differ from that of Draw-a-Box, so you’ll have to be careful about that. | I'm in the process of both. I'd say do at least the first 2 Drawabox lessons before loomis. Having those basics down really helps you visualize what loomis is talking about. | 1 | 2,851 | 1.125 | ||
ccje6i | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | What should I begin with? Drawabox or Human figure? Recently I bought *Andrew Loomis' Human Figure Drawing* because I wanted to learn how to draw better and more "realistic" things with the basics like perspective, ratios, etc. But then I discovered this sub with all the lessons and everything. Now I don't know what should I do first, should I master the lessons on drawabox before going into human figure or the other way around? | eto079w | etp4nx0 | 1,563,007,411 | 1,563,045,624 | 4 | 6 | do draw a box first, it's a lot easier than the human figure | I started with Draw a Box and burned out a bit because I was only doing it. There is a lot to learn and feeling you are making progress in the things you want to draw is important. Do DAB because you learn a lot, but do other things also. | 0 | 38,213 | 1.5 | ||
ccje6i | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | What should I begin with? Drawabox or Human figure? Recently I bought *Andrew Loomis' Human Figure Drawing* because I wanted to learn how to draw better and more "realistic" things with the basics like perspective, ratios, etc. But then I discovered this sub with all the lessons and everything. Now I don't know what should I do first, should I master the lessons on drawabox before going into human figure or the other way around? | etp13mv | etp4nx0 | 1,563,042,896 | 1,563,045,624 | 3 | 6 | As someone who's been through art education... Definitely Drawabox. It will really help you understand how to do things accurately, confidently, and in 3D space. | I started with Draw a Box and burned out a bit because I was only doing it. There is a lot to learn and feeling you are making progress in the things you want to draw is important. Do DAB because you learn a lot, but do other things also. | 0 | 2,728 | 2 | ||
ccje6i | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | What should I begin with? Drawabox or Human figure? Recently I bought *Andrew Loomis' Human Figure Drawing* because I wanted to learn how to draw better and more "realistic" things with the basics like perspective, ratios, etc. But then I discovered this sub with all the lessons and everything. Now I don't know what should I do first, should I master the lessons on drawabox before going into human figure or the other way around? | etp4nx0 | etp3bs9 | 1,563,045,624 | 1,563,044,590 | 6 | 3 | I started with Draw a Box and burned out a bit because I was only doing it. There is a lot to learn and feeling you are making progress in the things you want to draw is important. Do DAB because you learn a lot, but do other things also. | You know these are almost two distinct skills - drawing enviroments and geometrical objects in perspective via construction versus figure drawing - there isn't that much overlap. Currently I've been studying figure drawing a lot and I'm MUCH better at figure drawing than construction - like I tried to draw a person next to a car and the person was nearly perfect but the car was all disfigured. You're going to have to do both so just do them in the order you want. or do them in parallel. | 1 | 1,034 | 2 | ||
jx4wfr | artfundamentals_train | 0.95 | Which course should I do after or along with drawabox? Hello there, I'm 33 and the first drawing I made with the purpose of really drawing was a few weeks ago after I started drawabox. I have this goal to stay starting cartoons. Build my own characters and create a few charges and stories with them. I'm wondering what other courses would people suggest me do. I have some other questions as well but let's start with this one. Thanks!! | gd1zi6n | gcvtq31 | 1,605,964,109 | 1,605,827,360 | 8 | 7 | Just for fun I compiled a list of some YouTube practical tutorials on drawing if you want something else to follow along while you do the draw a box course they are in no particular order. Alphonso Dunn, Dan Beardshaw, Alan’s art log, Architecture drawings, Art of Wei, Artist’s Network, Art Proff: Create and Critique, Art tutor.com, Brandon Dayton, CircleLineSchool, Draughtsmen, Drawing and Painting : the virtual Instructor, Drawing and Painting with paint basket, Drawing Art Academy, Fine Art tips, Gawx Art, Improvedrawing, Infinitis Learning, JelArts, Jim Lee, Lachri Fine Art, Lex Wilson, Mark Brunet, Mark Crilley, Marshall Vandruff course, Mead McLean, Moderndayjames, New Masters, Peter draws, Proko, Ghada Ala, Scott Robertson, Sycra, Teoh Yi Chie, [ the Design Sketchbook], The Drawing Database, Thomas’s Mro, Trojan Horse, The art of Aaron Blaise, Vexx, Xabio Arts | Ben Caldwell's Action Cartooning and the expansion book Fantasy Cartooning are good for learning to draw expressive, cartoony characters with a good focus on construction and fundamentals, but nothing too overwhelming. Once you get going with that, move onto real figure drawing. | 1 | 136,749 | 1.142857 | ||
x29al4 | artfundamentals_train | 0.89 | Is drawing boxes really the best way to practice perspective? | imi29bg | imixwd3 | 1,661,938,907 | 1,661,956,024 | 1 | 14 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | There are a couple things to keep in mind here: * Firstly, Drawabox is not a perspective course - it's a course that, as discussed in Lesson 0, focuses primarily on building students' spatial reasoning skills. You can think of this as an instinctual application of perspective - but perspective on its own generally implies a more technical understanding of all the rules and maths underpinning depicting 3D space as seen by humans. * Secondly, just drawing boxes endlessly is not an effective way of developing one's spatial reasoning skills - which is why in the grand scheme of the course as a whole, drawing boxes is something we do for a short time towards the beginning (short in relation to everything else we do in this course), focused on giving students a kickstart to their spatial reasoning skills, but one that eventually sees diminishing returns if it is the entirely of how we spend our time. So, we have students draw 250 of them - not a particularly high number, mind you - but we spend only a minority of our time on that because it is *not* the best way to develop our spatial reasoning skills. On its own, anyway. The box challenge plays a part, but the most effective way we tackle that spatial reasoning skills are the constructional drawing exercises we explore from lessons 3 to 7. These involve having the student build up their constructions through the combination of solid, simple forms. In building the constructions up, they're forced to consider the relationships between the forms in 3D space. It's this kind of three dimensional puzzle that forces us to consider how the forms we draw relate to one another in 3D space. We do these over and over, looking at the same problem through the lens of different subject matter - plants, insects, animals, vehicles, etc. - to gradually rewire the student's internal understanding of 3D space on a subconscious and instinctual level. | 0 | 17,117 | 14 | ||
x29al4 | artfundamentals_train | 0.89 | Is drawing boxes really the best way to practice perspective? | imi29bg | imj3sff | 1,661,938,907 | 1,661,958,351 | 1 | 5 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | The rough perspective exercise was the most helpful for me. I started to experiment with different compositions on boxes that could be refined. Doing study and creative sketching I feel are still separate disciplines as sketching will put into practice what you study. | 0 | 19,444 | 5 | ||
l1aexa | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Is it normal to feel anxiety trying to do Texture Analysis(Lesson 2)? I had been doing my best to take these lessons as often as possible, but doing Texture Analysis where I draw 3 boxes worth of textures daily for the homework stresses me out immensely and makes me anxious. It's hard to tell if I'm doing it right or not and even more so to make sure I'm getting the shadow and not the color black by accident, leading me to question "which is shadow", beating myself up mentally for getting it wrong, and getting super stressed. It also was the reason I kept away from the site/reddit in general due to fear of showing my face after the long inactivity. Is it normal to feel like that for Texture Analysis? | gjz2h4y | gjz2mzb | 1,611,168,922 | 1,611,168,991 | 13 | 21 | I'm having the same trouble with the dissections exercise. Been on it for months and barely finished one page. ADHD doesn't help at all though | Welcome to art, this is your life now. | 0 | 69 | 1.615385 | ||
l1aexa | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Is it normal to feel anxiety trying to do Texture Analysis(Lesson 2)? I had been doing my best to take these lessons as often as possible, but doing Texture Analysis where I draw 3 boxes worth of textures daily for the homework stresses me out immensely and makes me anxious. It's hard to tell if I'm doing it right or not and even more so to make sure I'm getting the shadow and not the color black by accident, leading me to question "which is shadow", beating myself up mentally for getting it wrong, and getting super stressed. It also was the reason I kept away from the site/reddit in general due to fear of showing my face after the long inactivity. Is it normal to feel like that for Texture Analysis? | gjydr1q | gjz2mzb | 1,611,158,117 | 1,611,168,991 | 10 | 21 | I think the anxiety over drawing is a fairly common thing, admittedly I haven't done that lesson yet but I've felt the exact same way over drawing in the past, maybe texture analysis specifically is more stressful for you in particular. I don't think you should be scared of doing it wrong because if you're practicing or learning something it's unreasonable to expect perfection from yourself. If you can't tell if you're doing it right maybe feedback from others will help you? It's far easier having input from other people than it is working alone. For me it helps to accept that the things I draw might be bad, and will always be imperfect. If I get anxious over it I accept that messing up is a possibility and still push through it anyway. I don't know you at all so this might not apply but the anxiety I feel over art is due to my anxiety in general, and in my experience getting treatment for that helped me with my anxiety over art too. | Welcome to art, this is your life now. | 0 | 10,874 | 2.1 | ||
l1aexa | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Is it normal to feel anxiety trying to do Texture Analysis(Lesson 2)? I had been doing my best to take these lessons as often as possible, but doing Texture Analysis where I draw 3 boxes worth of textures daily for the homework stresses me out immensely and makes me anxious. It's hard to tell if I'm doing it right or not and even more so to make sure I'm getting the shadow and not the color black by accident, leading me to question "which is shadow", beating myself up mentally for getting it wrong, and getting super stressed. It also was the reason I kept away from the site/reddit in general due to fear of showing my face after the long inactivity. Is it normal to feel like that for Texture Analysis? | gjz2mzb | gjyhl08 | 1,611,168,991 | 1,611,159,930 | 21 | 9 | Welcome to art, this is your life now. | Absolutely normal. Please watch this video in its entirety (20min) https://youtu.be/xoY4C9dXshw | 1 | 9,061 | 2.333333 | ||
l1aexa | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Is it normal to feel anxiety trying to do Texture Analysis(Lesson 2)? I had been doing my best to take these lessons as often as possible, but doing Texture Analysis where I draw 3 boxes worth of textures daily for the homework stresses me out immensely and makes me anxious. It's hard to tell if I'm doing it right or not and even more so to make sure I'm getting the shadow and not the color black by accident, leading me to question "which is shadow", beating myself up mentally for getting it wrong, and getting super stressed. It also was the reason I kept away from the site/reddit in general due to fear of showing my face after the long inactivity. Is it normal to feel like that for Texture Analysis? | gjyyc8l | gjz2mzb | 1,611,167,138 | 1,611,168,991 | 9 | 21 | I've done this sort of assignment a couple of times for school, and it's given me anxiety too! I actually recently just did this last week and it took me a solid afternoon to do it. (It was grayscale only). Lots of anxiety involved. Some things worked, others simply did not. I had to stop and remind myself that this is practice, and it will get better/easier/ quicker as time goes on. | Welcome to art, this is your life now. | 0 | 1,853 | 2.333333 | ||
l1aexa | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Is it normal to feel anxiety trying to do Texture Analysis(Lesson 2)? I had been doing my best to take these lessons as often as possible, but doing Texture Analysis where I draw 3 boxes worth of textures daily for the homework stresses me out immensely and makes me anxious. It's hard to tell if I'm doing it right or not and even more so to make sure I'm getting the shadow and not the color black by accident, leading me to question "which is shadow", beating myself up mentally for getting it wrong, and getting super stressed. It also was the reason I kept away from the site/reddit in general due to fear of showing my face after the long inactivity. Is it normal to feel like that for Texture Analysis? | gjz2mzb | gjyqpt9 | 1,611,168,991 | 1,611,163,878 | 21 | 6 | Welcome to art, this is your life now. | I have drawn my entire life and still feel this way so yeah, it’s pretty normal. | 1 | 5,113 | 3.5 | ||
l1aexa | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Is it normal to feel anxiety trying to do Texture Analysis(Lesson 2)? I had been doing my best to take these lessons as often as possible, but doing Texture Analysis where I draw 3 boxes worth of textures daily for the homework stresses me out immensely and makes me anxious. It's hard to tell if I'm doing it right or not and even more so to make sure I'm getting the shadow and not the color black by accident, leading me to question "which is shadow", beating myself up mentally for getting it wrong, and getting super stressed. It also was the reason I kept away from the site/reddit in general due to fear of showing my face after the long inactivity. Is it normal to feel like that for Texture Analysis? | gjydr1q | gjz2h4y | 1,611,158,117 | 1,611,168,922 | 10 | 13 | I think the anxiety over drawing is a fairly common thing, admittedly I haven't done that lesson yet but I've felt the exact same way over drawing in the past, maybe texture analysis specifically is more stressful for you in particular. I don't think you should be scared of doing it wrong because if you're practicing or learning something it's unreasonable to expect perfection from yourself. If you can't tell if you're doing it right maybe feedback from others will help you? It's far easier having input from other people than it is working alone. For me it helps to accept that the things I draw might be bad, and will always be imperfect. If I get anxious over it I accept that messing up is a possibility and still push through it anyway. I don't know you at all so this might not apply but the anxiety I feel over art is due to my anxiety in general, and in my experience getting treatment for that helped me with my anxiety over art too. | I'm having the same trouble with the dissections exercise. Been on it for months and barely finished one page. ADHD doesn't help at all though | 0 | 10,805 | 1.3 | ||
l1aexa | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Is it normal to feel anxiety trying to do Texture Analysis(Lesson 2)? I had been doing my best to take these lessons as often as possible, but doing Texture Analysis where I draw 3 boxes worth of textures daily for the homework stresses me out immensely and makes me anxious. It's hard to tell if I'm doing it right or not and even more so to make sure I'm getting the shadow and not the color black by accident, leading me to question "which is shadow", beating myself up mentally for getting it wrong, and getting super stressed. It also was the reason I kept away from the site/reddit in general due to fear of showing my face after the long inactivity. Is it normal to feel like that for Texture Analysis? | gjz2h4y | gjyhl08 | 1,611,168,922 | 1,611,159,930 | 13 | 9 | I'm having the same trouble with the dissections exercise. Been on it for months and barely finished one page. ADHD doesn't help at all though | Absolutely normal. Please watch this video in its entirety (20min) https://youtu.be/xoY4C9dXshw | 1 | 8,992 | 1.444444 | ||
l1aexa | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Is it normal to feel anxiety trying to do Texture Analysis(Lesson 2)? I had been doing my best to take these lessons as often as possible, but doing Texture Analysis where I draw 3 boxes worth of textures daily for the homework stresses me out immensely and makes me anxious. It's hard to tell if I'm doing it right or not and even more so to make sure I'm getting the shadow and not the color black by accident, leading me to question "which is shadow", beating myself up mentally for getting it wrong, and getting super stressed. It also was the reason I kept away from the site/reddit in general due to fear of showing my face after the long inactivity. Is it normal to feel like that for Texture Analysis? | gjz2h4y | gjyyc8l | 1,611,168,922 | 1,611,167,138 | 13 | 9 | I'm having the same trouble with the dissections exercise. Been on it for months and barely finished one page. ADHD doesn't help at all though | I've done this sort of assignment a couple of times for school, and it's given me anxiety too! I actually recently just did this last week and it took me a solid afternoon to do it. (It was grayscale only). Lots of anxiety involved. Some things worked, others simply did not. I had to stop and remind myself that this is practice, and it will get better/easier/ quicker as time goes on. | 1 | 1,784 | 1.444444 | ||
l1aexa | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Is it normal to feel anxiety trying to do Texture Analysis(Lesson 2)? I had been doing my best to take these lessons as often as possible, but doing Texture Analysis where I draw 3 boxes worth of textures daily for the homework stresses me out immensely and makes me anxious. It's hard to tell if I'm doing it right or not and even more so to make sure I'm getting the shadow and not the color black by accident, leading me to question "which is shadow", beating myself up mentally for getting it wrong, and getting super stressed. It also was the reason I kept away from the site/reddit in general due to fear of showing my face after the long inactivity. Is it normal to feel like that for Texture Analysis? | gjyqpt9 | gjz2h4y | 1,611,163,878 | 1,611,168,922 | 6 | 13 | I have drawn my entire life and still feel this way so yeah, it’s pretty normal. | I'm having the same trouble with the dissections exercise. Been on it for months and barely finished one page. ADHD doesn't help at all though | 0 | 5,044 | 2.166667 | ||
l1aexa | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Is it normal to feel anxiety trying to do Texture Analysis(Lesson 2)? I had been doing my best to take these lessons as often as possible, but doing Texture Analysis where I draw 3 boxes worth of textures daily for the homework stresses me out immensely and makes me anxious. It's hard to tell if I'm doing it right or not and even more so to make sure I'm getting the shadow and not the color black by accident, leading me to question "which is shadow", beating myself up mentally for getting it wrong, and getting super stressed. It also was the reason I kept away from the site/reddit in general due to fear of showing my face after the long inactivity. Is it normal to feel like that for Texture Analysis? | gjzw7gz | gjydr1q | 1,611,182,106 | 1,611,158,117 | 11 | 10 | I get this feeling sometimes and my brain definitely likes to shut down and gets overwhelmed by the methodical way of details and the techniques. I find myself especially troubled by bark textures and grass stalks. One thing I like to think about is from the book, "Landscapes in Oil" by Ken Salaz, specifically his portions on detail and capturing what you see. He explains that while it is important to learn how to paint what we see and get the details down correctly, it will always be impossible, for us as artists, to capture it 100% perfectly. And if we were to attempt to, we will inevitably over work our pieces as well as ruin our self confidence trying to achieve the impossible. He goes on to say that if you wanted to capture a scene 100% perfectly, you should rather use a camera. He elaborates on this by explaining that artists aren't cameras but rather interpreters of the world around us, with the canvas and sketch pad being the places for our interpretations to grow off of, not as perfectly crafted recreations like photos but as unique and soulful reflections of our world through our own eyes. Another aspect that helps me is what wildlife artist, John Muir Laws often says in that detail is often like a spice, a little goes a long way. He often states in his videos and his books that details can be easily suggested and should be, especially when sketching from real life. The human brain can pick up a lot of details from just a suggestion with a couple pen strokes and that can and should be exploited to our advantage as artists. Lastly, I highly recommend (as does John Muir Laws) looking into the works of the late wildlife artist, William D. Berry. His works are the best examples of being able to create furry bear and moose from only a couple pencil strokes to suggest fur. His style is extremely interesting and realistic despite the simplicity. Good luck and I hope some of this helps :) | I think the anxiety over drawing is a fairly common thing, admittedly I haven't done that lesson yet but I've felt the exact same way over drawing in the past, maybe texture analysis specifically is more stressful for you in particular. I don't think you should be scared of doing it wrong because if you're practicing or learning something it's unreasonable to expect perfection from yourself. If you can't tell if you're doing it right maybe feedback from others will help you? It's far easier having input from other people than it is working alone. For me it helps to accept that the things I draw might be bad, and will always be imperfect. If I get anxious over it I accept that messing up is a possibility and still push through it anyway. I don't know you at all so this might not apply but the anxiety I feel over art is due to my anxiety in general, and in my experience getting treatment for that helped me with my anxiety over art too. | 1 | 23,989 | 1.1 |
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