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m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquxhta | gqultoo | 1,615,687,234 | 1,615,680,393 | 24 | 10 | Dude what? Have you been doing nothing but the drawabox exercises? It took me a month just to get one of the challenges done. | Go draw something YOU want to draw. Objects around your house are great warm ups, find pictures that make you think “I want to draw that” then draw it. Take a look at your local landscape and recreate it or use it as a base for a fantasy landscape. | 1 | 6,841 | 2.4 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqukzyj | gquxhta | 1,615,679,913 | 1,615,687,234 | 9 | 24 | i know drawabox advocates just drawing 50 percent of the time specifically not learning drawing just drawing If you like fantasy stuff start drawing fantasy characters. I have drawn a couple things from the Golden Axe games, i am really not very good but like jsut drawing Find a landscape or characters and create your own versions. Don't get to caught up in perfection. you can design different armour or weapons. You could even write backstories for a character and then try and draw them using the backstory. Or just straight up draw a dwarf, draw a mage, draw a knight. Pick something and do it, don't spend too much time choosing just do it | Dude what? Have you been doing nothing but the drawabox exercises? It took me a month just to get one of the challenges done. | 0 | 7,321 | 2.666667 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquxdko | gquxhta | 1,615,687,162 | 1,615,687,234 | 8 | 24 | Did you blast through the lessons, so now you're in the worst possible position of not having consolidated your progress and you've burnt yourself out? Perhaps give things a bit of a break for a couple of weeks. Keep thinking with an artist's eye of breaking things into forms etc, but leave it at that. Don't pick up a pencil until you've got your mojo back. At that point, look back on what you've done to see where you might still be weak and work on those areas in a fun project. | Dude what? Have you been doing nothing but the drawabox exercises? It took me a month just to get one of the challenges done. | 0 | 72 | 3 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquxhta | gqum11m | 1,615,687,234 | 1,615,680,512 | 24 | 5 | Dude what? Have you been doing nothing but the drawabox exercises? It took me a month just to get one of the challenges done. | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | 1 | 6,722 | 4.8 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquujhp | gqv0bam | 1,615,685,464 | 1,615,688,943 | 20 | 23 | it's a helluva lot better to make art that you want to make, than to grind through lessons just because you think you \*should\*. the latter is a road to burnout. stay motivated by drawing things that motivate you, it's honestly that simple. just gotta be humble about your own expectations tho. | There’s three ways to draw: drawing from imagination, drawing from life and drawing from photos. Drawing from drawings (if you want to count it) would be the fourth. If you’ve been doing the last one, that’s important too for learning, but let yourself practice the others too. | 0 | 3,479 | 1.15 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquz3nb | gqv0bam | 1,615,688,216 | 1,615,688,943 | 18 | 23 | He mentions in the earlier lessons that you have to draw for fun too, so you don't get burned out like that. The good news is, you've been doing all those lessons so you've probably upped your game a lot by now, so the challenge is to apply what you've learned. I did find that as I'm going through the lessons, when I'm drawing something else I keep seeing what the lessons are talking about and how to apply that to stuff I'm drawing. It makes me think about things I've drawn before and I'm like "ohhh I should've been doing it that way." That's a good reason to space it out between other projects you're working on (I've been doing it too slowly myself though, I wish I could keep at it as quickly and consistently as you've been doing) | There’s three ways to draw: drawing from imagination, drawing from life and drawing from photos. Drawing from drawings (if you want to count it) would be the fourth. If you’ve been doing the last one, that’s important too for learning, but let yourself practice the others too. | 0 | 727 | 1.277778 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqultoo | gqv0bam | 1,615,680,393 | 1,615,688,943 | 10 | 23 | Go draw something YOU want to draw. Objects around your house are great warm ups, find pictures that make you think “I want to draw that” then draw it. Take a look at your local landscape and recreate it or use it as a base for a fantasy landscape. | There’s three ways to draw: drawing from imagination, drawing from life and drawing from photos. Drawing from drawings (if you want to count it) would be the fourth. If you’ve been doing the last one, that’s important too for learning, but let yourself practice the others too. | 0 | 8,550 | 2.3 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqukzyj | gqv0bam | 1,615,679,913 | 1,615,688,943 | 9 | 23 | i know drawabox advocates just drawing 50 percent of the time specifically not learning drawing just drawing If you like fantasy stuff start drawing fantasy characters. I have drawn a couple things from the Golden Axe games, i am really not very good but like jsut drawing Find a landscape or characters and create your own versions. Don't get to caught up in perfection. you can design different armour or weapons. You could even write backstories for a character and then try and draw them using the backstory. Or just straight up draw a dwarf, draw a mage, draw a knight. Pick something and do it, don't spend too much time choosing just do it | There’s three ways to draw: drawing from imagination, drawing from life and drawing from photos. Drawing from drawings (if you want to count it) would be the fourth. If you’ve been doing the last one, that’s important too for learning, but let yourself practice the others too. | 0 | 9,030 | 2.555556 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqv0bam | gquxdko | 1,615,688,943 | 1,615,687,162 | 23 | 8 | There’s three ways to draw: drawing from imagination, drawing from life and drawing from photos. Drawing from drawings (if you want to count it) would be the fourth. If you’ve been doing the last one, that’s important too for learning, but let yourself practice the others too. | Did you blast through the lessons, so now you're in the worst possible position of not having consolidated your progress and you've burnt yourself out? Perhaps give things a bit of a break for a couple of weeks. Keep thinking with an artist's eye of breaking things into forms etc, but leave it at that. Don't pick up a pencil until you've got your mojo back. At that point, look back on what you've done to see where you might still be weak and work on those areas in a fun project. | 1 | 1,781 | 2.875 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqv0bam | gqum11m | 1,615,688,943 | 1,615,680,512 | 23 | 5 | There’s three ways to draw: drawing from imagination, drawing from life and drawing from photos. Drawing from drawings (if you want to count it) would be the fourth. If you’ve been doing the last one, that’s important too for learning, but let yourself practice the others too. | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | 1 | 8,431 | 4.6 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquujhp | gqv2d79 | 1,615,685,464 | 1,615,690,181 | 20 | 22 | it's a helluva lot better to make art that you want to make, than to grind through lessons just because you think you \*should\*. the latter is a road to burnout. stay motivated by drawing things that motivate you, it's honestly that simple. just gotta be humble about your own expectations tho. | draw something you want to | 0 | 4,717 | 1.1 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquz3nb | gqv2d79 | 1,615,688,216 | 1,615,690,181 | 18 | 22 | He mentions in the earlier lessons that you have to draw for fun too, so you don't get burned out like that. The good news is, you've been doing all those lessons so you've probably upped your game a lot by now, so the challenge is to apply what you've learned. I did find that as I'm going through the lessons, when I'm drawing something else I keep seeing what the lessons are talking about and how to apply that to stuff I'm drawing. It makes me think about things I've drawn before and I'm like "ohhh I should've been doing it that way." That's a good reason to space it out between other projects you're working on (I've been doing it too slowly myself though, I wish I could keep at it as quickly and consistently as you've been doing) | draw something you want to | 0 | 1,965 | 1.222222 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqv2d79 | gqultoo | 1,615,690,181 | 1,615,680,393 | 22 | 10 | draw something you want to | Go draw something YOU want to draw. Objects around your house are great warm ups, find pictures that make you think “I want to draw that” then draw it. Take a look at your local landscape and recreate it or use it as a base for a fantasy landscape. | 1 | 9,788 | 2.2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqukzyj | gqv2d79 | 1,615,679,913 | 1,615,690,181 | 9 | 22 | i know drawabox advocates just drawing 50 percent of the time specifically not learning drawing just drawing If you like fantasy stuff start drawing fantasy characters. I have drawn a couple things from the Golden Axe games, i am really not very good but like jsut drawing Find a landscape or characters and create your own versions. Don't get to caught up in perfection. you can design different armour or weapons. You could even write backstories for a character and then try and draw them using the backstory. Or just straight up draw a dwarf, draw a mage, draw a knight. Pick something and do it, don't spend too much time choosing just do it | draw something you want to | 0 | 10,268 | 2.444444 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqv2d79 | gquxdko | 1,615,690,181 | 1,615,687,162 | 22 | 8 | draw something you want to | Did you blast through the lessons, so now you're in the worst possible position of not having consolidated your progress and you've burnt yourself out? Perhaps give things a bit of a break for a couple of weeks. Keep thinking with an artist's eye of breaking things into forms etc, but leave it at that. Don't pick up a pencil until you've got your mojo back. At that point, look back on what you've done to see where you might still be weak and work on those areas in a fun project. | 1 | 3,019 | 2.75 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqum11m | gqv2d79 | 1,615,680,512 | 1,615,690,181 | 5 | 22 | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | draw something you want to | 0 | 9,669 | 4.4 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqw15p3 | gqves9l | 1,615,719,586 | 1,615,698,435 | 22 | 19 | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | Reminds me of practicing piano, where you master the techniques and can read the pieces. Upon finishing the piece I was practicing and executed it good technique, the teacher said, “Good. Now once more but this time with feeling” You can now control what you draw. Now draw again this time with feeling. | 1 | 21,151 | 1.157895 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqw15p3 | gquujhp | 1,615,719,586 | 1,615,685,464 | 22 | 20 | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | it's a helluva lot better to make art that you want to make, than to grind through lessons just because you think you \*should\*. the latter is a road to burnout. stay motivated by drawing things that motivate you, it's honestly that simple. just gotta be humble about your own expectations tho. | 1 | 34,122 | 1.1 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquz3nb | gqw15p3 | 1,615,688,216 | 1,615,719,586 | 18 | 22 | He mentions in the earlier lessons that you have to draw for fun too, so you don't get burned out like that. The good news is, you've been doing all those lessons so you've probably upped your game a lot by now, so the challenge is to apply what you've learned. I did find that as I'm going through the lessons, when I'm drawing something else I keep seeing what the lessons are talking about and how to apply that to stuff I'm drawing. It makes me think about things I've drawn before and I'm like "ohhh I should've been doing it that way." That's a good reason to space it out between other projects you're working on (I've been doing it too slowly myself though, I wish I could keep at it as quickly and consistently as you've been doing) | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | 0 | 31,370 | 1.222222 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqw15p3 | gqvgoqz | 1,615,719,586 | 1,615,699,865 | 22 | 16 | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | I'm not a professional but I think you should draw what's fun for you | 1 | 19,721 | 1.375 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqultoo | gqw15p3 | 1,615,680,393 | 1,615,719,586 | 10 | 22 | Go draw something YOU want to draw. Objects around your house are great warm ups, find pictures that make you think “I want to draw that” then draw it. Take a look at your local landscape and recreate it or use it as a base for a fantasy landscape. | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | 0 | 39,193 | 2.2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqukzyj | gqw15p3 | 1,615,679,913 | 1,615,719,586 | 9 | 22 | i know drawabox advocates just drawing 50 percent of the time specifically not learning drawing just drawing If you like fantasy stuff start drawing fantasy characters. I have drawn a couple things from the Golden Axe games, i am really not very good but like jsut drawing Find a landscape or characters and create your own versions. Don't get to caught up in perfection. you can design different armour or weapons. You could even write backstories for a character and then try and draw them using the backstory. Or just straight up draw a dwarf, draw a mage, draw a knight. Pick something and do it, don't spend too much time choosing just do it | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | 0 | 39,673 | 2.444444 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqw15p3 | gquxdko | 1,615,719,586 | 1,615,687,162 | 22 | 8 | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | Did you blast through the lessons, so now you're in the worst possible position of not having consolidated your progress and you've burnt yourself out? Perhaps give things a bit of a break for a couple of weeks. Keep thinking with an artist's eye of breaking things into forms etc, but leave it at that. Don't pick up a pencil until you've got your mojo back. At that point, look back on what you've done to see where you might still be weak and work on those areas in a fun project. | 1 | 32,424 | 2.75 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqw15p3 | gqvjnwi | 1,615,719,586 | 1,615,702,252 | 22 | 10 | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | Drawing With The Right Side of the Brain- a decades old book that gets you drawing, just a few pages in- it would be a great counter balance to all the technique proficiency. It teaches perspective and classic art techniques but really focuses on how we see negative space and other perception skills | 1 | 17,334 | 2.2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqw15p3 | gqvqm4l | 1,615,719,586 | 1,615,708,607 | 22 | 9 | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | Oh dude you like fantasy stuff?!? Just go for it! Post a pic of what you come up with! I stopped doing draw a box because I wanted to just draw the things I liked. You’ll do great! Make what you love and then as your skill grows you’ll grow to love what you make even more. And be charitable to yourself. Let yourself make mistakes and praise yourself for every bit of new improvement along the way! | 1 | 10,979 | 2.444444 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvorrw | gqw15p3 | 1,615,706,817 | 1,615,719,586 | 8 | 22 | If you're feeling frustrated you should lay off fundamentals for now and draw something you enjoy, believe me I've been there and taking breaks really helps you get the motivation back. You should always cycle between doing your own personal projects (applying what you've learned), and fundamentals, you'll get better in time, and you can definitely do it, trust in the process goodluck!! | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | 0 | 12,769 | 2.75 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvuipt | gqw15p3 | 1,615,712,529 | 1,615,719,586 | 6 | 22 | You need to find out what you enjoy drawing and do some of that too. Have a private sketchbook you promise yourself you show to no one, and in it, try things out. Draw in a cartoon style. Copy art by artists you admire (but don’t share! Unless you are copying art that is in the public domain). Draw things you see around you. Draw or copy typography. Copy movie stills. Find a large database of models online and draw these: start with quick gesture drawings to study pose. What sometimes also works is changing up materials. If you’ve drawn with pen or pencil, try watercolors or something else for a bit. Hard practice on the fundamentals is a good thing, but you need to supplement that with fun-drawing, goofing off in a sketchbook. | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | 0 | 7,057 | 3.666667 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqum11m | gqw15p3 | 1,615,680,512 | 1,615,719,586 | 5 | 22 | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | 0 | 39,074 | 4.4 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvh103 | gqw15p3 | 1,615,700,126 | 1,615,719,586 | 3 | 22 | Although I'm still doing the exercises but I feel similar and very overwhelmed and I feel I did nothing (specially how I have specific goals). Now I'm drawing from images then tracing to check errors and how lines and shapes are connected so it might help. | I mean Uncomfortable did say it's a requirement to draw things that are fun for you to draw. If you like fantasy landscapes, draw those. If you feel like you don't know where to start, just copy other people's artwork for a bit. There's less "What if I fail/it looks bad" involved because it's not your work after all, it's someone else's. Plus there's less "What the hell do I have to fill this empty canvas with" because you have an exact copy of what you're supposed to have by the time your done. Plus, even if you don't have any specific thing you want to learn from this artist, you end up absorbing some of their knowledge through copying. At least, that works for me. If I feel like everything I make is shit, I just do master studies to remind myself that I can make all of the brushstrokes that go into a good painting - the possibility is there. But it might not work for you and that's fine too. EDIT: Don't share copied art without permission from the original artist tho | 0 | 19,460 | 7.333333 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquz3nb | gqves9l | 1,615,688,216 | 1,615,698,435 | 18 | 19 | He mentions in the earlier lessons that you have to draw for fun too, so you don't get burned out like that. The good news is, you've been doing all those lessons so you've probably upped your game a lot by now, so the challenge is to apply what you've learned. I did find that as I'm going through the lessons, when I'm drawing something else I keep seeing what the lessons are talking about and how to apply that to stuff I'm drawing. It makes me think about things I've drawn before and I'm like "ohhh I should've been doing it that way." That's a good reason to space it out between other projects you're working on (I've been doing it too slowly myself though, I wish I could keep at it as quickly and consistently as you've been doing) | Reminds me of practicing piano, where you master the techniques and can read the pieces. Upon finishing the piece I was practicing and executed it good technique, the teacher said, “Good. Now once more but this time with feeling” You can now control what you draw. Now draw again this time with feeling. | 0 | 10,219 | 1.055556 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqultoo | gqves9l | 1,615,680,393 | 1,615,698,435 | 10 | 19 | Go draw something YOU want to draw. Objects around your house are great warm ups, find pictures that make you think “I want to draw that” then draw it. Take a look at your local landscape and recreate it or use it as a base for a fantasy landscape. | Reminds me of practicing piano, where you master the techniques and can read the pieces. Upon finishing the piece I was practicing and executed it good technique, the teacher said, “Good. Now once more but this time with feeling” You can now control what you draw. Now draw again this time with feeling. | 0 | 18,042 | 1.9 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqves9l | gqukzyj | 1,615,698,435 | 1,615,679,913 | 19 | 9 | Reminds me of practicing piano, where you master the techniques and can read the pieces. Upon finishing the piece I was practicing and executed it good technique, the teacher said, “Good. Now once more but this time with feeling” You can now control what you draw. Now draw again this time with feeling. | i know drawabox advocates just drawing 50 percent of the time specifically not learning drawing just drawing If you like fantasy stuff start drawing fantasy characters. I have drawn a couple things from the Golden Axe games, i am really not very good but like jsut drawing Find a landscape or characters and create your own versions. Don't get to caught up in perfection. you can design different armour or weapons. You could even write backstories for a character and then try and draw them using the backstory. Or just straight up draw a dwarf, draw a mage, draw a knight. Pick something and do it, don't spend too much time choosing just do it | 1 | 18,522 | 2.111111 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqves9l | gquxdko | 1,615,698,435 | 1,615,687,162 | 19 | 8 | Reminds me of practicing piano, where you master the techniques and can read the pieces. Upon finishing the piece I was practicing and executed it good technique, the teacher said, “Good. Now once more but this time with feeling” You can now control what you draw. Now draw again this time with feeling. | Did you blast through the lessons, so now you're in the worst possible position of not having consolidated your progress and you've burnt yourself out? Perhaps give things a bit of a break for a couple of weeks. Keep thinking with an artist's eye of breaking things into forms etc, but leave it at that. Don't pick up a pencil until you've got your mojo back. At that point, look back on what you've done to see where you might still be weak and work on those areas in a fun project. | 1 | 11,273 | 2.375 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqves9l | gqum11m | 1,615,698,435 | 1,615,680,512 | 19 | 5 | Reminds me of practicing piano, where you master the techniques and can read the pieces. Upon finishing the piece I was practicing and executed it good technique, the teacher said, “Good. Now once more but this time with feeling” You can now control what you draw. Now draw again this time with feeling. | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | 1 | 17,923 | 3.8 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqultoo | gquujhp | 1,615,680,393 | 1,615,685,464 | 10 | 20 | Go draw something YOU want to draw. Objects around your house are great warm ups, find pictures that make you think “I want to draw that” then draw it. Take a look at your local landscape and recreate it or use it as a base for a fantasy landscape. | it's a helluva lot better to make art that you want to make, than to grind through lessons just because you think you \*should\*. the latter is a road to burnout. stay motivated by drawing things that motivate you, it's honestly that simple. just gotta be humble about your own expectations tho. | 0 | 5,071 | 2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqukzyj | gquujhp | 1,615,679,913 | 1,615,685,464 | 9 | 20 | i know drawabox advocates just drawing 50 percent of the time specifically not learning drawing just drawing If you like fantasy stuff start drawing fantasy characters. I have drawn a couple things from the Golden Axe games, i am really not very good but like jsut drawing Find a landscape or characters and create your own versions. Don't get to caught up in perfection. you can design different armour or weapons. You could even write backstories for a character and then try and draw them using the backstory. Or just straight up draw a dwarf, draw a mage, draw a knight. Pick something and do it, don't spend too much time choosing just do it | it's a helluva lot better to make art that you want to make, than to grind through lessons just because you think you \*should\*. the latter is a road to burnout. stay motivated by drawing things that motivate you, it's honestly that simple. just gotta be humble about your own expectations tho. | 0 | 5,551 | 2.222222 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquujhp | gqum11m | 1,615,685,464 | 1,615,680,512 | 20 | 5 | it's a helluva lot better to make art that you want to make, than to grind through lessons just because you think you \*should\*. the latter is a road to burnout. stay motivated by drawing things that motivate you, it's honestly that simple. just gotta be humble about your own expectations tho. | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | 1 | 4,952 | 4 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquz3nb | gqultoo | 1,615,688,216 | 1,615,680,393 | 18 | 10 | He mentions in the earlier lessons that you have to draw for fun too, so you don't get burned out like that. The good news is, you've been doing all those lessons so you've probably upped your game a lot by now, so the challenge is to apply what you've learned. I did find that as I'm going through the lessons, when I'm drawing something else I keep seeing what the lessons are talking about and how to apply that to stuff I'm drawing. It makes me think about things I've drawn before and I'm like "ohhh I should've been doing it that way." That's a good reason to space it out between other projects you're working on (I've been doing it too slowly myself though, I wish I could keep at it as quickly and consistently as you've been doing) | Go draw something YOU want to draw. Objects around your house are great warm ups, find pictures that make you think “I want to draw that” then draw it. Take a look at your local landscape and recreate it or use it as a base for a fantasy landscape. | 1 | 7,823 | 1.8 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquz3nb | gqukzyj | 1,615,688,216 | 1,615,679,913 | 18 | 9 | He mentions in the earlier lessons that you have to draw for fun too, so you don't get burned out like that. The good news is, you've been doing all those lessons so you've probably upped your game a lot by now, so the challenge is to apply what you've learned. I did find that as I'm going through the lessons, when I'm drawing something else I keep seeing what the lessons are talking about and how to apply that to stuff I'm drawing. It makes me think about things I've drawn before and I'm like "ohhh I should've been doing it that way." That's a good reason to space it out between other projects you're working on (I've been doing it too slowly myself though, I wish I could keep at it as quickly and consistently as you've been doing) | i know drawabox advocates just drawing 50 percent of the time specifically not learning drawing just drawing If you like fantasy stuff start drawing fantasy characters. I have drawn a couple things from the Golden Axe games, i am really not very good but like jsut drawing Find a landscape or characters and create your own versions. Don't get to caught up in perfection. you can design different armour or weapons. You could even write backstories for a character and then try and draw them using the backstory. Or just straight up draw a dwarf, draw a mage, draw a knight. Pick something and do it, don't spend too much time choosing just do it | 1 | 8,303 | 2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquz3nb | gquxdko | 1,615,688,216 | 1,615,687,162 | 18 | 8 | He mentions in the earlier lessons that you have to draw for fun too, so you don't get burned out like that. The good news is, you've been doing all those lessons so you've probably upped your game a lot by now, so the challenge is to apply what you've learned. I did find that as I'm going through the lessons, when I'm drawing something else I keep seeing what the lessons are talking about and how to apply that to stuff I'm drawing. It makes me think about things I've drawn before and I'm like "ohhh I should've been doing it that way." That's a good reason to space it out between other projects you're working on (I've been doing it too slowly myself though, I wish I could keep at it as quickly and consistently as you've been doing) | Did you blast through the lessons, so now you're in the worst possible position of not having consolidated your progress and you've burnt yourself out? Perhaps give things a bit of a break for a couple of weeks. Keep thinking with an artist's eye of breaking things into forms etc, but leave it at that. Don't pick up a pencil until you've got your mojo back. At that point, look back on what you've done to see where you might still be weak and work on those areas in a fun project. | 1 | 1,054 | 2.25 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquz3nb | gqum11m | 1,615,688,216 | 1,615,680,512 | 18 | 5 | He mentions in the earlier lessons that you have to draw for fun too, so you don't get burned out like that. The good news is, you've been doing all those lessons so you've probably upped your game a lot by now, so the challenge is to apply what you've learned. I did find that as I'm going through the lessons, when I'm drawing something else I keep seeing what the lessons are talking about and how to apply that to stuff I'm drawing. It makes me think about things I've drawn before and I'm like "ohhh I should've been doing it that way." That's a good reason to space it out between other projects you're working on (I've been doing it too slowly myself though, I wish I could keep at it as quickly and consistently as you've been doing) | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | 1 | 7,704 | 3.6 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqultoo | gqvgoqz | 1,615,680,393 | 1,615,699,865 | 10 | 16 | Go draw something YOU want to draw. Objects around your house are great warm ups, find pictures that make you think “I want to draw that” then draw it. Take a look at your local landscape and recreate it or use it as a base for a fantasy landscape. | I'm not a professional but I think you should draw what's fun for you | 0 | 19,472 | 1.6 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvgoqz | gqukzyj | 1,615,699,865 | 1,615,679,913 | 16 | 9 | I'm not a professional but I think you should draw what's fun for you | i know drawabox advocates just drawing 50 percent of the time specifically not learning drawing just drawing If you like fantasy stuff start drawing fantasy characters. I have drawn a couple things from the Golden Axe games, i am really not very good but like jsut drawing Find a landscape or characters and create your own versions. Don't get to caught up in perfection. you can design different armour or weapons. You could even write backstories for a character and then try and draw them using the backstory. Or just straight up draw a dwarf, draw a mage, draw a knight. Pick something and do it, don't spend too much time choosing just do it | 1 | 19,952 | 1.777778 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquxdko | gqvgoqz | 1,615,687,162 | 1,615,699,865 | 8 | 16 | Did you blast through the lessons, so now you're in the worst possible position of not having consolidated your progress and you've burnt yourself out? Perhaps give things a bit of a break for a couple of weeks. Keep thinking with an artist's eye of breaking things into forms etc, but leave it at that. Don't pick up a pencil until you've got your mojo back. At that point, look back on what you've done to see where you might still be weak and work on those areas in a fun project. | I'm not a professional but I think you should draw what's fun for you | 0 | 12,703 | 2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvgoqz | gqum11m | 1,615,699,865 | 1,615,680,512 | 16 | 5 | I'm not a professional but I think you should draw what's fun for you | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | 1 | 19,353 | 3.2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqukzyj | gqultoo | 1,615,679,913 | 1,615,680,393 | 9 | 10 | i know drawabox advocates just drawing 50 percent of the time specifically not learning drawing just drawing If you like fantasy stuff start drawing fantasy characters. I have drawn a couple things from the Golden Axe games, i am really not very good but like jsut drawing Find a landscape or characters and create your own versions. Don't get to caught up in perfection. you can design different armour or weapons. You could even write backstories for a character and then try and draw them using the backstory. Or just straight up draw a dwarf, draw a mage, draw a knight. Pick something and do it, don't spend too much time choosing just do it | Go draw something YOU want to draw. Objects around your house are great warm ups, find pictures that make you think “I want to draw that” then draw it. Take a look at your local landscape and recreate it or use it as a base for a fantasy landscape. | 0 | 480 | 1.111111 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqukzyj | gqvjnwi | 1,615,679,913 | 1,615,702,252 | 9 | 10 | i know drawabox advocates just drawing 50 percent of the time specifically not learning drawing just drawing If you like fantasy stuff start drawing fantasy characters. I have drawn a couple things from the Golden Axe games, i am really not very good but like jsut drawing Find a landscape or characters and create your own versions. Don't get to caught up in perfection. you can design different armour or weapons. You could even write backstories for a character and then try and draw them using the backstory. Or just straight up draw a dwarf, draw a mage, draw a knight. Pick something and do it, don't spend too much time choosing just do it | Drawing With The Right Side of the Brain- a decades old book that gets you drawing, just a few pages in- it would be a great counter balance to all the technique proficiency. It teaches perspective and classic art techniques but really focuses on how we see negative space and other perception skills | 0 | 22,339 | 1.111111 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvjnwi | gquxdko | 1,615,702,252 | 1,615,687,162 | 10 | 8 | Drawing With The Right Side of the Brain- a decades old book that gets you drawing, just a few pages in- it would be a great counter balance to all the technique proficiency. It teaches perspective and classic art techniques but really focuses on how we see negative space and other perception skills | Did you blast through the lessons, so now you're in the worst possible position of not having consolidated your progress and you've burnt yourself out? Perhaps give things a bit of a break for a couple of weeks. Keep thinking with an artist's eye of breaking things into forms etc, but leave it at that. Don't pick up a pencil until you've got your mojo back. At that point, look back on what you've done to see where you might still be weak and work on those areas in a fun project. | 1 | 15,090 | 1.25 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gquxdko | gqvqm4l | 1,615,687,162 | 1,615,708,607 | 8 | 9 | Did you blast through the lessons, so now you're in the worst possible position of not having consolidated your progress and you've burnt yourself out? Perhaps give things a bit of a break for a couple of weeks. Keep thinking with an artist's eye of breaking things into forms etc, but leave it at that. Don't pick up a pencil until you've got your mojo back. At that point, look back on what you've done to see where you might still be weak and work on those areas in a fun project. | Oh dude you like fantasy stuff?!? Just go for it! Post a pic of what you come up with! I stopped doing draw a box because I wanted to just draw the things I liked. You’ll do great! Make what you love and then as your skill grows you’ll grow to love what you make even more. And be charitable to yourself. Let yourself make mistakes and praise yourself for every bit of new improvement along the way! | 0 | 21,445 | 1.125 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqum11m | gquxdko | 1,615,680,512 | 1,615,687,162 | 5 | 8 | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | Did you blast through the lessons, so now you're in the worst possible position of not having consolidated your progress and you've burnt yourself out? Perhaps give things a bit of a break for a couple of weeks. Keep thinking with an artist's eye of breaking things into forms etc, but leave it at that. Don't pick up a pencil until you've got your mojo back. At that point, look back on what you've done to see where you might still be weak and work on those areas in a fun project. | 0 | 6,650 | 1.6 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvjnwi | gqum11m | 1,615,702,252 | 1,615,680,512 | 10 | 5 | Drawing With The Right Side of the Brain- a decades old book that gets you drawing, just a few pages in- it would be a great counter balance to all the technique proficiency. It teaches perspective and classic art techniques but really focuses on how we see negative space and other perception skills | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | 1 | 21,740 | 2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvh103 | gqvjnwi | 1,615,700,126 | 1,615,702,252 | 3 | 10 | Although I'm still doing the exercises but I feel similar and very overwhelmed and I feel I did nothing (specially how I have specific goals). Now I'm drawing from images then tracing to check errors and how lines and shapes are connected so it might help. | Drawing With The Right Side of the Brain- a decades old book that gets you drawing, just a few pages in- it would be a great counter balance to all the technique proficiency. It teaches perspective and classic art techniques but really focuses on how we see negative space and other perception skills | 0 | 2,126 | 3.333333 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvqm4l | gqvorrw | 1,615,708,607 | 1,615,706,817 | 9 | 8 | Oh dude you like fantasy stuff?!? Just go for it! Post a pic of what you come up with! I stopped doing draw a box because I wanted to just draw the things I liked. You’ll do great! Make what you love and then as your skill grows you’ll grow to love what you make even more. And be charitable to yourself. Let yourself make mistakes and praise yourself for every bit of new improvement along the way! | If you're feeling frustrated you should lay off fundamentals for now and draw something you enjoy, believe me I've been there and taking breaks really helps you get the motivation back. You should always cycle between doing your own personal projects (applying what you've learned), and fundamentals, you'll get better in time, and you can definitely do it, trust in the process goodluck!! | 1 | 1,790 | 1.125 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvqm4l | gqum11m | 1,615,708,607 | 1,615,680,512 | 9 | 5 | Oh dude you like fantasy stuff?!? Just go for it! Post a pic of what you come up with! I stopped doing draw a box because I wanted to just draw the things I liked. You’ll do great! Make what you love and then as your skill grows you’ll grow to love what you make even more. And be charitable to yourself. Let yourself make mistakes and praise yourself for every bit of new improvement along the way! | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | 1 | 28,095 | 1.8 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvh103 | gqvqm4l | 1,615,700,126 | 1,615,708,607 | 3 | 9 | Although I'm still doing the exercises but I feel similar and very overwhelmed and I feel I did nothing (specially how I have specific goals). Now I'm drawing from images then tracing to check errors and how lines and shapes are connected so it might help. | Oh dude you like fantasy stuff?!? Just go for it! Post a pic of what you come up with! I stopped doing draw a box because I wanted to just draw the things I liked. You’ll do great! Make what you love and then as your skill grows you’ll grow to love what you make even more. And be charitable to yourself. Let yourself make mistakes and praise yourself for every bit of new improvement along the way! | 0 | 8,481 | 3 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvorrw | gqum11m | 1,615,706,817 | 1,615,680,512 | 8 | 5 | If you're feeling frustrated you should lay off fundamentals for now and draw something you enjoy, believe me I've been there and taking breaks really helps you get the motivation back. You should always cycle between doing your own personal projects (applying what you've learned), and fundamentals, you'll get better in time, and you can definitely do it, trust in the process goodluck!! | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | 1 | 26,305 | 1.6 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvh103 | gqvorrw | 1,615,700,126 | 1,615,706,817 | 3 | 8 | Although I'm still doing the exercises but I feel similar and very overwhelmed and I feel I did nothing (specially how I have specific goals). Now I'm drawing from images then tracing to check errors and how lines and shapes are connected so it might help. | If you're feeling frustrated you should lay off fundamentals for now and draw something you enjoy, believe me I've been there and taking breaks really helps you get the motivation back. You should always cycle between doing your own personal projects (applying what you've learned), and fundamentals, you'll get better in time, and you can definitely do it, trust in the process goodluck!! | 0 | 6,691 | 2.666667 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvuipt | gqwqe4n | 1,615,712,529 | 1,615,738,970 | 6 | 7 | You need to find out what you enjoy drawing and do some of that too. Have a private sketchbook you promise yourself you show to no one, and in it, try things out. Draw in a cartoon style. Copy art by artists you admire (but don’t share! Unless you are copying art that is in the public domain). Draw things you see around you. Draw or copy typography. Copy movie stills. Find a large database of models online and draw these: start with quick gesture drawings to study pose. What sometimes also works is changing up materials. If you’ve drawn with pen or pencil, try watercolors or something else for a bit. Hard practice on the fundamentals is a good thing, but you need to supplement that with fun-drawing, goofing off in a sketchbook. | Forget everything you learned and just play around :) Honestly. It will stick unconsciously anyways. And if you get tired of playing around, you now have the tools for a more rigorous approach. | 0 | 26,441 | 1.166667 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvuipt | gqum11m | 1,615,712,529 | 1,615,680,512 | 6 | 5 | You need to find out what you enjoy drawing and do some of that too. Have a private sketchbook you promise yourself you show to no one, and in it, try things out. Draw in a cartoon style. Copy art by artists you admire (but don’t share! Unless you are copying art that is in the public domain). Draw things you see around you. Draw or copy typography. Copy movie stills. Find a large database of models online and draw these: start with quick gesture drawings to study pose. What sometimes also works is changing up materials. If you’ve drawn with pen or pencil, try watercolors or something else for a bit. Hard practice on the fundamentals is a good thing, but you need to supplement that with fun-drawing, goofing off in a sketchbook. | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | 1 | 32,017 | 1.2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvuipt | gqvh103 | 1,615,712,529 | 1,615,700,126 | 6 | 3 | You need to find out what you enjoy drawing and do some of that too. Have a private sketchbook you promise yourself you show to no one, and in it, try things out. Draw in a cartoon style. Copy art by artists you admire (but don’t share! Unless you are copying art that is in the public domain). Draw things you see around you. Draw or copy typography. Copy movie stills. Find a large database of models online and draw these: start with quick gesture drawings to study pose. What sometimes also works is changing up materials. If you’ve drawn with pen or pencil, try watercolors or something else for a bit. Hard practice on the fundamentals is a good thing, but you need to supplement that with fun-drawing, goofing off in a sketchbook. | Although I'm still doing the exercises but I feel similar and very overwhelmed and I feel I did nothing (specially how I have specific goals). Now I'm drawing from images then tracing to check errors and how lines and shapes are connected so it might help. | 1 | 12,403 | 2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqum11m | gqwqe4n | 1,615,680,512 | 1,615,738,970 | 5 | 7 | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | Forget everything you learned and just play around :) Honestly. It will stick unconsciously anyways. And if you get tired of playing around, you now have the tools for a more rigorous approach. | 0 | 58,458 | 1.4 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqwqe4n | gqwjsnu | 1,615,738,970 | 1,615,735,445 | 7 | 6 | Forget everything you learned and just play around :) Honestly. It will stick unconsciously anyways. And if you get tired of playing around, you now have the tools for a more rigorous approach. | I think it’s time you rest for a week or two. Your brain is still laying down tons of new synapses from the past months. When you do pick up the pen again, you’ll notice how much you’ve learned, despite just resting. And great work. I’ve done drawabox on and off for two years, still not even half way through! | 1 | 3,525 | 1.166667 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqw8v61 | gqwqe4n | 1,615,726,674 | 1,615,738,970 | 4 | 7 | I know this is weird but rossdraws is doing a bootcamp maybe you can join it! | Forget everything you learned and just play around :) Honestly. It will stick unconsciously anyways. And if you get tired of playing around, you now have the tools for a more rigorous approach. | 0 | 12,296 | 1.75 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvh103 | gqwqe4n | 1,615,700,126 | 1,615,738,970 | 3 | 7 | Although I'm still doing the exercises but I feel similar and very overwhelmed and I feel I did nothing (specially how I have specific goals). Now I'm drawing from images then tracing to check errors and how lines and shapes are connected so it might help. | Forget everything you learned and just play around :) Honestly. It will stick unconsciously anyways. And if you get tired of playing around, you now have the tools for a more rigorous approach. | 0 | 38,844 | 2.333333 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqwqe4n | gqwhjku | 1,615,738,970 | 1,615,734,141 | 7 | 2 | Forget everything you learned and just play around :) Honestly. It will stick unconsciously anyways. And if you get tired of playing around, you now have the tools for a more rigorous approach. | First off, congratulations on finishing all the exercises for both courses! I hope to get there myself but I’m only on lesson 1 of drawabox at the moment. Definitely take a break and try making a cool fantasy painting or 2 or 3. 50% rule exists for precisely this reason of avoiding burnout. Actually when I was watching the video on it I realized that I’ve been stuck in tutorial hell for quite a few years now, because I felt like I could only draw fun stuff once I was good enough and “deserved” it...and that was why I was teetering on the brink of burnout for so long! I think since you’ve grinded so hard for the last few months, you should take some time to just make what you want. If it turns out weaker than you expected, that’s ok, you can always revisit it in the future. After finishing a few projects of your own, then get back into a 50-50 mixture of fundamentals (maybe Proko’s free figure course on YouTube?) and personal projects. At least, that’s what I’m planning to do. | 1 | 4,829 | 3.5 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqwqe4n | gqwqdu5 | 1,615,738,970 | 1,615,738,965 | 7 | 1 | Forget everything you learned and just play around :) Honestly. It will stick unconsciously anyways. And if you get tired of playing around, you now have the tools for a more rigorous approach. | Rest for sure, then try something you enjoy drawing. I’ve been practicing and experimenting with clear objects and perspective by drawing glass from different angles, but I give myself breaks by drawing random birds or dragons. | 1 | 5 | 7 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqum11m | gqx7c61 | 1,615,680,512 | 1,615,745,644 | 5 | 6 | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | Well, why are doing art? For fun? Or for money? Because if you focus on why you're doing it, then you will be able to do it more properly. Like, if you're doing it for fun, I would say to stop worrying about the lessons and just let go and draw something without worrying about skill. If you're doing it for money, I would say u should probably look into more lucrative careers. But it could be lucrative as a small supplemental income, realistically speaking. So, if you're doing it for money, I would suggest treating it like u treat a regular job. Maybe schedule a certain time to practice, and do it regularly. It kind of takes the worry out of it if u just think of it as a job. | 0 | 65,132 | 1.2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqw8v61 | gqx7c61 | 1,615,726,674 | 1,615,745,644 | 4 | 6 | I know this is weird but rossdraws is doing a bootcamp maybe you can join it! | Well, why are doing art? For fun? Or for money? Because if you focus on why you're doing it, then you will be able to do it more properly. Like, if you're doing it for fun, I would say to stop worrying about the lessons and just let go and draw something without worrying about skill. If you're doing it for money, I would say u should probably look into more lucrative careers. But it could be lucrative as a small supplemental income, realistically speaking. So, if you're doing it for money, I would suggest treating it like u treat a regular job. Maybe schedule a certain time to practice, and do it regularly. It kind of takes the worry out of it if u just think of it as a job. | 0 | 18,970 | 1.5 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvh103 | gqx7c61 | 1,615,700,126 | 1,615,745,644 | 3 | 6 | Although I'm still doing the exercises but I feel similar and very overwhelmed and I feel I did nothing (specially how I have specific goals). Now I'm drawing from images then tracing to check errors and how lines and shapes are connected so it might help. | Well, why are doing art? For fun? Or for money? Because if you focus on why you're doing it, then you will be able to do it more properly. Like, if you're doing it for fun, I would say to stop worrying about the lessons and just let go and draw something without worrying about skill. If you're doing it for money, I would say u should probably look into more lucrative careers. But it could be lucrative as a small supplemental income, realistically speaking. So, if you're doing it for money, I would suggest treating it like u treat a regular job. Maybe schedule a certain time to practice, and do it regularly. It kind of takes the worry out of it if u just think of it as a job. | 0 | 45,518 | 2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqx7c61 | gqx474o | 1,615,745,644 | 1,615,744,570 | 6 | 3 | Well, why are doing art? For fun? Or for money? Because if you focus on why you're doing it, then you will be able to do it more properly. Like, if you're doing it for fun, I would say to stop worrying about the lessons and just let go and draw something without worrying about skill. If you're doing it for money, I would say u should probably look into more lucrative careers. But it could be lucrative as a small supplemental income, realistically speaking. So, if you're doing it for money, I would suggest treating it like u treat a regular job. Maybe schedule a certain time to practice, and do it regularly. It kind of takes the worry out of it if u just think of it as a job. | So as a practical suggestion, I find that when I'm tired of practicing fundamentals but not in the best spontaneous creative art mood art prompts help a lot. Helps you take that first step into a big project and get past worrying about a blank canvas. Also, if you were looking for a fantasy landscape art prompt, how about a beach covered in giant magic energy crystals! | 1 | 1,074 | 2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqwhjku | gqx7c61 | 1,615,734,141 | 1,615,745,644 | 2 | 6 | First off, congratulations on finishing all the exercises for both courses! I hope to get there myself but I’m only on lesson 1 of drawabox at the moment. Definitely take a break and try making a cool fantasy painting or 2 or 3. 50% rule exists for precisely this reason of avoiding burnout. Actually when I was watching the video on it I realized that I’ve been stuck in tutorial hell for quite a few years now, because I felt like I could only draw fun stuff once I was good enough and “deserved” it...and that was why I was teetering on the brink of burnout for so long! I think since you’ve grinded so hard for the last few months, you should take some time to just make what you want. If it turns out weaker than you expected, that’s ok, you can always revisit it in the future. After finishing a few projects of your own, then get back into a 50-50 mixture of fundamentals (maybe Proko’s free figure course on YouTube?) and personal projects. At least, that’s what I’m planning to do. | Well, why are doing art? For fun? Or for money? Because if you focus on why you're doing it, then you will be able to do it more properly. Like, if you're doing it for fun, I would say to stop worrying about the lessons and just let go and draw something without worrying about skill. If you're doing it for money, I would say u should probably look into more lucrative careers. But it could be lucrative as a small supplemental income, realistically speaking. So, if you're doing it for money, I would suggest treating it like u treat a regular job. Maybe schedule a certain time to practice, and do it regularly. It kind of takes the worry out of it if u just think of it as a job. | 0 | 11,503 | 3 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqwxsvg | gqx7c61 | 1,615,742,201 | 1,615,745,644 | 2 | 6 | Try gesture drawing that’s what I’m doing as i do lesson 1 | Well, why are doing art? For fun? Or for money? Because if you focus on why you're doing it, then you will be able to do it more properly. Like, if you're doing it for fun, I would say to stop worrying about the lessons and just let go and draw something without worrying about skill. If you're doing it for money, I would say u should probably look into more lucrative careers. But it could be lucrative as a small supplemental income, realistically speaking. So, if you're doing it for money, I would suggest treating it like u treat a regular job. Maybe schedule a certain time to practice, and do it regularly. It kind of takes the worry out of it if u just think of it as a job. | 0 | 3,443 | 3 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqwqdu5 | gqx7c61 | 1,615,738,965 | 1,615,745,644 | 1 | 6 | Rest for sure, then try something you enjoy drawing. I’ve been practicing and experimenting with clear objects and perspective by drawing glass from different angles, but I give myself breaks by drawing random birds or dragons. | Well, why are doing art? For fun? Or for money? Because if you focus on why you're doing it, then you will be able to do it more properly. Like, if you're doing it for fun, I would say to stop worrying about the lessons and just let go and draw something without worrying about skill. If you're doing it for money, I would say u should probably look into more lucrative careers. But it could be lucrative as a small supplemental income, realistically speaking. So, if you're doing it for money, I would suggest treating it like u treat a regular job. Maybe schedule a certain time to practice, and do it regularly. It kind of takes the worry out of it if u just think of it as a job. | 0 | 6,679 | 6 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqx7c61 | gqx3ltz | 1,615,745,644 | 1,615,744,374 | 6 | 1 | Well, why are doing art? For fun? Or for money? Because if you focus on why you're doing it, then you will be able to do it more properly. Like, if you're doing it for fun, I would say to stop worrying about the lessons and just let go and draw something without worrying about skill. If you're doing it for money, I would say u should probably look into more lucrative careers. But it could be lucrative as a small supplemental income, realistically speaking. So, if you're doing it for money, I would suggest treating it like u treat a regular job. Maybe schedule a certain time to practice, and do it regularly. It kind of takes the worry out of it if u just think of it as a job. | I would say go for what you are interested in. Draw what you think is fun for a bit. A big part of art is enjoying the process. Go for a fantasy painting even if you don't think you ate ready. Go look at other fantasy paintings. Go watch a movie or play a game. Go for a walk (safely ofc) and enjoy your surroundings. What inspires or excited you? Remember, this isn't a chore. There is no barrier of entry for art or drawing or painting. As much as tutorials helped me when I was learning digital, what really helped me was jumping in over my head and messing around for a while. I always told myself that you can only learned by doing, even if that doing involves many, many mistakes. That is how we learn after all. I can tell you, my first many digital paintings were disastrous, but i learned way more then with just tutorials alone. Progress is often failure. It's often write offs and disasters. Don't let perfectionism blind you to that. Also, don't be ashamed of not finishing a piece, or not even knowing where to start with one. The process is much, much more important. The only thing matters is that you are getting better and you are enjoying yourself. It's OK to feel overwhelmed! If you are not, you aren't challenging yourself, and thus not learning. Good luck! | 1 | 1,270 | 6 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqwjsnu | gqum11m | 1,615,735,445 | 1,615,680,512 | 6 | 5 | I think it’s time you rest for a week or two. Your brain is still laying down tons of new synapses from the past months. When you do pick up the pen again, you’ll notice how much you’ve learned, despite just resting. And great work. I’ve done drawabox on and off for two years, still not even half way through! | Don't start with anatomy.. that would kill my motivation as well. There is a feng zhu video on what subject matter is great for beginners. Anything organic and more forgiving like rocks is good for starters. Then you can move to trees, architecture, insects.. and so on. Humans are incredibly difficult. There is a lot of information online and you'll have to find out what works for you. It should still be fun however. | 1 | 54,933 | 1.2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqw8v61 | gqwjsnu | 1,615,726,674 | 1,615,735,445 | 4 | 6 | I know this is weird but rossdraws is doing a bootcamp maybe you can join it! | I think it’s time you rest for a week or two. Your brain is still laying down tons of new synapses from the past months. When you do pick up the pen again, you’ll notice how much you’ve learned, despite just resting. And great work. I’ve done drawabox on and off for two years, still not even half way through! | 0 | 8,771 | 1.5 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvh103 | gqwjsnu | 1,615,700,126 | 1,615,735,445 | 3 | 6 | Although I'm still doing the exercises but I feel similar and very overwhelmed and I feel I did nothing (specially how I have specific goals). Now I'm drawing from images then tracing to check errors and how lines and shapes are connected so it might help. | I think it’s time you rest for a week or two. Your brain is still laying down tons of new synapses from the past months. When you do pick up the pen again, you’ll notice how much you’ve learned, despite just resting. And great work. I’ve done drawabox on and off for two years, still not even half way through! | 0 | 35,319 | 2 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqwhjku | gqwjsnu | 1,615,734,141 | 1,615,735,445 | 2 | 6 | First off, congratulations on finishing all the exercises for both courses! I hope to get there myself but I’m only on lesson 1 of drawabox at the moment. Definitely take a break and try making a cool fantasy painting or 2 or 3. 50% rule exists for precisely this reason of avoiding burnout. Actually when I was watching the video on it I realized that I’ve been stuck in tutorial hell for quite a few years now, because I felt like I could only draw fun stuff once I was good enough and “deserved” it...and that was why I was teetering on the brink of burnout for so long! I think since you’ve grinded so hard for the last few months, you should take some time to just make what you want. If it turns out weaker than you expected, that’s ok, you can always revisit it in the future. After finishing a few projects of your own, then get back into a 50-50 mixture of fundamentals (maybe Proko’s free figure course on YouTube?) and personal projects. At least, that’s what I’m planning to do. | I think it’s time you rest for a week or two. Your brain is still laying down tons of new synapses from the past months. When you do pick up the pen again, you’ll notice how much you’ve learned, despite just resting. And great work. I’ve done drawabox on and off for two years, still not even half way through! | 0 | 1,304 | 3 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqw8v61 | gr28e8i | 1,615,726,674 | 1,615,846,961 | 4 | 5 | I know this is weird but rossdraws is doing a bootcamp maybe you can join it! | Recommend chilling out with some automatic drawing. Try to have fun and just detach yourself from a results-based outlook. If you find yourself really having fun, maybe try to stop yourself before you completely deplete that feeling. Leave some of that energy for tomorrow's session. I'd say the priority would be to return to the DaB warmups as soon as you feel up to it. You want to keep at the line making practice to build mileage if nothing else. Drawing confidently from the shoulder, ellipses, eyeballing perspective, and primitives are probably the biggest returns on investment for beginners. I've found that noticing those improvements in my own work has really helped me keep a lot of my momentum. Let yourself notice and enjoy those wins. Building any skill is hard. Self-care is essential. Particularly so with contemplative, creative skills, like art. You spend all day by yourself, in your head. If you don't like yourself then things are probably going to go downhill. Someone else already mentioned Feng Zhu's take on a natural progression of difficulty while building confidence. Here is the direct video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqWX7onVmU | 0 | 120,287 | 1.25 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqw8v61 | gqvh103 | 1,615,726,674 | 1,615,700,126 | 4 | 3 | I know this is weird but rossdraws is doing a bootcamp maybe you can join it! | Although I'm still doing the exercises but I feel similar and very overwhelmed and I feel I did nothing (specially how I have specific goals). Now I'm drawing from images then tracing to check errors and how lines and shapes are connected so it might help. | 1 | 26,548 | 1.333333 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqvh103 | gr28e8i | 1,615,700,126 | 1,615,846,961 | 3 | 5 | Although I'm still doing the exercises but I feel similar and very overwhelmed and I feel I did nothing (specially how I have specific goals). Now I'm drawing from images then tracing to check errors and how lines and shapes are connected so it might help. | Recommend chilling out with some automatic drawing. Try to have fun and just detach yourself from a results-based outlook. If you find yourself really having fun, maybe try to stop yourself before you completely deplete that feeling. Leave some of that energy for tomorrow's session. I'd say the priority would be to return to the DaB warmups as soon as you feel up to it. You want to keep at the line making practice to build mileage if nothing else. Drawing confidently from the shoulder, ellipses, eyeballing perspective, and primitives are probably the biggest returns on investment for beginners. I've found that noticing those improvements in my own work has really helped me keep a lot of my momentum. Let yourself notice and enjoy those wins. Building any skill is hard. Self-care is essential. Particularly so with contemplative, creative skills, like art. You spend all day by yourself, in your head. If you don't like yourself then things are probably going to go downhill. Someone else already mentioned Feng Zhu's take on a natural progression of difficulty while building confidence. Here is the direct video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqWX7onVmU | 0 | 146,835 | 1.666667 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqx474o | gr28e8i | 1,615,744,570 | 1,615,846,961 | 3 | 5 | So as a practical suggestion, I find that when I'm tired of practicing fundamentals but not in the best spontaneous creative art mood art prompts help a lot. Helps you take that first step into a big project and get past worrying about a blank canvas. Also, if you were looking for a fantasy landscape art prompt, how about a beach covered in giant magic energy crystals! | Recommend chilling out with some automatic drawing. Try to have fun and just detach yourself from a results-based outlook. If you find yourself really having fun, maybe try to stop yourself before you completely deplete that feeling. Leave some of that energy for tomorrow's session. I'd say the priority would be to return to the DaB warmups as soon as you feel up to it. You want to keep at the line making practice to build mileage if nothing else. Drawing confidently from the shoulder, ellipses, eyeballing perspective, and primitives are probably the biggest returns on investment for beginners. I've found that noticing those improvements in my own work has really helped me keep a lot of my momentum. Let yourself notice and enjoy those wins. Building any skill is hard. Self-care is essential. Particularly so with contemplative, creative skills, like art. You spend all day by yourself, in your head. If you don't like yourself then things are probably going to go downhill. Someone else already mentioned Feng Zhu's take on a natural progression of difficulty while building confidence. Here is the direct video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqWX7onVmU | 0 | 102,391 | 1.666667 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqwhjku | gr28e8i | 1,615,734,141 | 1,615,846,961 | 2 | 5 | First off, congratulations on finishing all the exercises for both courses! I hope to get there myself but I’m only on lesson 1 of drawabox at the moment. Definitely take a break and try making a cool fantasy painting or 2 or 3. 50% rule exists for precisely this reason of avoiding burnout. Actually when I was watching the video on it I realized that I’ve been stuck in tutorial hell for quite a few years now, because I felt like I could only draw fun stuff once I was good enough and “deserved” it...and that was why I was teetering on the brink of burnout for so long! I think since you’ve grinded so hard for the last few months, you should take some time to just make what you want. If it turns out weaker than you expected, that’s ok, you can always revisit it in the future. After finishing a few projects of your own, then get back into a 50-50 mixture of fundamentals (maybe Proko’s free figure course on YouTube?) and personal projects. At least, that’s what I’m planning to do. | Recommend chilling out with some automatic drawing. Try to have fun and just detach yourself from a results-based outlook. If you find yourself really having fun, maybe try to stop yourself before you completely deplete that feeling. Leave some of that energy for tomorrow's session. I'd say the priority would be to return to the DaB warmups as soon as you feel up to it. You want to keep at the line making practice to build mileage if nothing else. Drawing confidently from the shoulder, ellipses, eyeballing perspective, and primitives are probably the biggest returns on investment for beginners. I've found that noticing those improvements in my own work has really helped me keep a lot of my momentum. Let yourself notice and enjoy those wins. Building any skill is hard. Self-care is essential. Particularly so with contemplative, creative skills, like art. You spend all day by yourself, in your head. If you don't like yourself then things are probably going to go downhill. Someone else already mentioned Feng Zhu's take on a natural progression of difficulty while building confidence. Here is the direct video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqWX7onVmU | 0 | 112,820 | 2.5 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gr28e8i | gqwxsvg | 1,615,846,961 | 1,615,742,201 | 5 | 2 | Recommend chilling out with some automatic drawing. Try to have fun and just detach yourself from a results-based outlook. If you find yourself really having fun, maybe try to stop yourself before you completely deplete that feeling. Leave some of that energy for tomorrow's session. I'd say the priority would be to return to the DaB warmups as soon as you feel up to it. You want to keep at the line making practice to build mileage if nothing else. Drawing confidently from the shoulder, ellipses, eyeballing perspective, and primitives are probably the biggest returns on investment for beginners. I've found that noticing those improvements in my own work has really helped me keep a lot of my momentum. Let yourself notice and enjoy those wins. Building any skill is hard. Self-care is essential. Particularly so with contemplative, creative skills, like art. You spend all day by yourself, in your head. If you don't like yourself then things are probably going to go downhill. Someone else already mentioned Feng Zhu's take on a natural progression of difficulty while building confidence. Here is the direct video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqWX7onVmU | Try gesture drawing that’s what I’m doing as i do lesson 1 | 1 | 104,760 | 2.5 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gr28e8i | gqwqdu5 | 1,615,846,961 | 1,615,738,965 | 5 | 1 | Recommend chilling out with some automatic drawing. Try to have fun and just detach yourself from a results-based outlook. If you find yourself really having fun, maybe try to stop yourself before you completely deplete that feeling. Leave some of that energy for tomorrow's session. I'd say the priority would be to return to the DaB warmups as soon as you feel up to it. You want to keep at the line making practice to build mileage if nothing else. Drawing confidently from the shoulder, ellipses, eyeballing perspective, and primitives are probably the biggest returns on investment for beginners. I've found that noticing those improvements in my own work has really helped me keep a lot of my momentum. Let yourself notice and enjoy those wins. Building any skill is hard. Self-care is essential. Particularly so with contemplative, creative skills, like art. You spend all day by yourself, in your head. If you don't like yourself then things are probably going to go downhill. Someone else already mentioned Feng Zhu's take on a natural progression of difficulty while building confidence. Here is the direct video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqWX7onVmU | Rest for sure, then try something you enjoy drawing. I’ve been practicing and experimenting with clear objects and perspective by drawing glass from different angles, but I give myself breaks by drawing random birds or dragons. | 1 | 107,996 | 5 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqx3ltz | gr28e8i | 1,615,744,374 | 1,615,846,961 | 1 | 5 | I would say go for what you are interested in. Draw what you think is fun for a bit. A big part of art is enjoying the process. Go for a fantasy painting even if you don't think you ate ready. Go look at other fantasy paintings. Go watch a movie or play a game. Go for a walk (safely ofc) and enjoy your surroundings. What inspires or excited you? Remember, this isn't a chore. There is no barrier of entry for art or drawing or painting. As much as tutorials helped me when I was learning digital, what really helped me was jumping in over my head and messing around for a while. I always told myself that you can only learned by doing, even if that doing involves many, many mistakes. That is how we learn after all. I can tell you, my first many digital paintings were disastrous, but i learned way more then with just tutorials alone. Progress is often failure. It's often write offs and disasters. Don't let perfectionism blind you to that. Also, don't be ashamed of not finishing a piece, or not even knowing where to start with one. The process is much, much more important. The only thing matters is that you are getting better and you are enjoying yourself. It's OK to feel overwhelmed! If you are not, you aren't challenging yourself, and thus not learning. Good luck! | Recommend chilling out with some automatic drawing. Try to have fun and just detach yourself from a results-based outlook. If you find yourself really having fun, maybe try to stop yourself before you completely deplete that feeling. Leave some of that energy for tomorrow's session. I'd say the priority would be to return to the DaB warmups as soon as you feel up to it. You want to keep at the line making practice to build mileage if nothing else. Drawing confidently from the shoulder, ellipses, eyeballing perspective, and primitives are probably the biggest returns on investment for beginners. I've found that noticing those improvements in my own work has really helped me keep a lot of my momentum. Let yourself notice and enjoy those wins. Building any skill is hard. Self-care is essential. Particularly so with contemplative, creative skills, like art. You spend all day by yourself, in your head. If you don't like yourself then things are probably going to go downhill. Someone else already mentioned Feng Zhu's take on a natural progression of difficulty while building confidence. Here is the direct video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqWX7onVmU | 0 | 102,587 | 5 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gr28e8i | gqycbaz | 1,615,846,961 | 1,615,761,347 | 5 | 1 | Recommend chilling out with some automatic drawing. Try to have fun and just detach yourself from a results-based outlook. If you find yourself really having fun, maybe try to stop yourself before you completely deplete that feeling. Leave some of that energy for tomorrow's session. I'd say the priority would be to return to the DaB warmups as soon as you feel up to it. You want to keep at the line making practice to build mileage if nothing else. Drawing confidently from the shoulder, ellipses, eyeballing perspective, and primitives are probably the biggest returns on investment for beginners. I've found that noticing those improvements in my own work has really helped me keep a lot of my momentum. Let yourself notice and enjoy those wins. Building any skill is hard. Self-care is essential. Particularly so with contemplative, creative skills, like art. You spend all day by yourself, in your head. If you don't like yourself then things are probably going to go downhill. Someone else already mentioned Feng Zhu's take on a natural progression of difficulty while building confidence. Here is the direct video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqWX7onVmU | there are ups and downs. Do other stuff and come back to it. It takes years. dont rush into being disheartened. | 1 | 85,614 | 5 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gr27y51 | gr28e8i | 1,615,846,677 | 1,615,846,961 | 1 | 5 | You need to make it fun and stop just following lessons. You're ready to draw anything you want, just have fun. He talks about it here: **https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAVNYq4Ab2k&feature=youtu.be** | Recommend chilling out with some automatic drawing. Try to have fun and just detach yourself from a results-based outlook. If you find yourself really having fun, maybe try to stop yourself before you completely deplete that feeling. Leave some of that energy for tomorrow's session. I'd say the priority would be to return to the DaB warmups as soon as you feel up to it. You want to keep at the line making practice to build mileage if nothing else. Drawing confidently from the shoulder, ellipses, eyeballing perspective, and primitives are probably the biggest returns on investment for beginners. I've found that noticing those improvements in my own work has really helped me keep a lot of my momentum. Let yourself notice and enjoy those wins. Building any skill is hard. Self-care is essential. Particularly so with contemplative, creative skills, like art. You spend all day by yourself, in your head. If you don't like yourself then things are probably going to go downhill. Someone else already mentioned Feng Zhu's take on a natural progression of difficulty while building confidence. Here is the direct video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqWX7onVmU | 0 | 284 | 5 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqx474o | gqwhjku | 1,615,744,570 | 1,615,734,141 | 3 | 2 | So as a practical suggestion, I find that when I'm tired of practicing fundamentals but not in the best spontaneous creative art mood art prompts help a lot. Helps you take that first step into a big project and get past worrying about a blank canvas. Also, if you were looking for a fantasy landscape art prompt, how about a beach covered in giant magic energy crystals! | First off, congratulations on finishing all the exercises for both courses! I hope to get there myself but I’m only on lesson 1 of drawabox at the moment. Definitely take a break and try making a cool fantasy painting or 2 or 3. 50% rule exists for precisely this reason of avoiding burnout. Actually when I was watching the video on it I realized that I’ve been stuck in tutorial hell for quite a few years now, because I felt like I could only draw fun stuff once I was good enough and “deserved” it...and that was why I was teetering on the brink of burnout for so long! I think since you’ve grinded so hard for the last few months, you should take some time to just make what you want. If it turns out weaker than you expected, that’s ok, you can always revisit it in the future. After finishing a few projects of your own, then get back into a 50-50 mixture of fundamentals (maybe Proko’s free figure course on YouTube?) and personal projects. At least, that’s what I’m planning to do. | 1 | 10,429 | 1.5 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqwxsvg | gqx474o | 1,615,742,201 | 1,615,744,570 | 2 | 3 | Try gesture drawing that’s what I’m doing as i do lesson 1 | So as a practical suggestion, I find that when I'm tired of practicing fundamentals but not in the best spontaneous creative art mood art prompts help a lot. Helps you take that first step into a big project and get past worrying about a blank canvas. Also, if you were looking for a fantasy landscape art prompt, how about a beach covered in giant magic energy crystals! | 0 | 2,369 | 1.5 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqwqdu5 | gqx474o | 1,615,738,965 | 1,615,744,570 | 1 | 3 | Rest for sure, then try something you enjoy drawing. I’ve been practicing and experimenting with clear objects and perspective by drawing glass from different angles, but I give myself breaks by drawing random birds or dragons. | So as a practical suggestion, I find that when I'm tired of practicing fundamentals but not in the best spontaneous creative art mood art prompts help a lot. Helps you take that first step into a big project and get past worrying about a blank canvas. Also, if you were looking for a fantasy landscape art prompt, how about a beach covered in giant magic energy crystals! | 0 | 5,605 | 3 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqx3ltz | gqx474o | 1,615,744,374 | 1,615,744,570 | 1 | 3 | I would say go for what you are interested in. Draw what you think is fun for a bit. A big part of art is enjoying the process. Go for a fantasy painting even if you don't think you ate ready. Go look at other fantasy paintings. Go watch a movie or play a game. Go for a walk (safely ofc) and enjoy your surroundings. What inspires or excited you? Remember, this isn't a chore. There is no barrier of entry for art or drawing or painting. As much as tutorials helped me when I was learning digital, what really helped me was jumping in over my head and messing around for a while. I always told myself that you can only learned by doing, even if that doing involves many, many mistakes. That is how we learn after all. I can tell you, my first many digital paintings were disastrous, but i learned way more then with just tutorials alone. Progress is often failure. It's often write offs and disasters. Don't let perfectionism blind you to that. Also, don't be ashamed of not finishing a piece, or not even knowing where to start with one. The process is much, much more important. The only thing matters is that you are getting better and you are enjoying yourself. It's OK to feel overwhelmed! If you are not, you aren't challenging yourself, and thus not learning. Good luck! | So as a practical suggestion, I find that when I'm tired of practicing fundamentals but not in the best spontaneous creative art mood art prompts help a lot. Helps you take that first step into a big project and get past worrying about a blank canvas. Also, if you were looking for a fantasy landscape art prompt, how about a beach covered in giant magic energy crystals! | 0 | 196 | 3 | ||
m4frvf | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Ive spent two months doing all the excercises on drawabox and ctrlpaint, now what? Im a bit demotivated because I worked really hard for months and I feel like I did nothing, I dont have any real piece finished and I feel overwhelmed every time I try to start drawing something that is not squares, circles and lines. I know many people recommend that after finishing drawabox you start with anatomy books to begin to understand the human body but I feel that if I start again with "thick lessons" I will get burned out too fast. I know I still lack a lot of fundamentals and I will keep working on them but I would like to start doing a real project with digital art. I love fantasy scenarios with characters and I thought that a fantasy landscape would be a good practice. What do you recommend me to do now to get motivated again? | gqwqdu5 | gqwxsvg | 1,615,738,965 | 1,615,742,201 | 1 | 2 | Rest for sure, then try something you enjoy drawing. I’ve been practicing and experimenting with clear objects and perspective by drawing glass from different angles, but I give myself breaks by drawing random birds or dragons. | Try gesture drawing that’s what I’m doing as i do lesson 1 | 0 | 3,236 | 2 | ||
wxtac6 | artfundamentals_train | 0.9 | Is drawabox useful for Pixel artists? I have tried DrawABox multiple times in the past and have only gotten past lesson 1, cause in pixel art you prioritize packing detail into small spaces rather than creating multi-layered or large compostions cause you have to place pretty much every single pixel and at my skill level ^(the floor.) You ARE placing every single pixel. Nobody who has done pixel art seems to talk about if Draw-a-Box is useful for their learning of fundaementals more so than just straight up drawing alot and learning from strictly pixel-art related tutorials. Is the world of pixel art (I use Aseprite by the way.) that different from digital drawing with smooth strokes and full Anti-aliasing? You still have to use Light and shadows, form and perspective and anatomy to a good degree if you have anything more than a 16x16 pixel canvas. In essence, is at least 80% of draw-a-box useful for beginner pixel artists? Or is more pixel oriented art tutorials more important? | ilswqkw | ilt7dfk | 1,661,470,970 | 1,661,475,809 | 1 | 29 | **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.* | No. Draw a box is good for learning to draw. If you’re not worried about being able to freehand lines and textures, draw a box isn’t necessary for you. For pixel art, your time may be best spent learning about color theory, perspective, and composition. Doing studies of old school video games would be more helpful. | 0 | 4,839 | 29 | ||
wxtac6 | artfundamentals_train | 0.9 | Is drawabox useful for Pixel artists? I have tried DrawABox multiple times in the past and have only gotten past lesson 1, cause in pixel art you prioritize packing detail into small spaces rather than creating multi-layered or large compostions cause you have to place pretty much every single pixel and at my skill level ^(the floor.) You ARE placing every single pixel. Nobody who has done pixel art seems to talk about if Draw-a-Box is useful for their learning of fundaementals more so than just straight up drawing alot and learning from strictly pixel-art related tutorials. Is the world of pixel art (I use Aseprite by the way.) that different from digital drawing with smooth strokes and full Anti-aliasing? You still have to use Light and shadows, form and perspective and anatomy to a good degree if you have anything more than a 16x16 pixel canvas. In essence, is at least 80% of draw-a-box useful for beginner pixel artists? Or is more pixel oriented art tutorials more important? | ilv1ukv | ilswqkw | 1,661,517,386 | 1,661,470,970 | 10 | 1 | If I was you I would practice some of the lessons draw a box gives you but on paper, and not digitally, especially not with pixelart. The lessons teach you to understand form like the cube and organic shapes overlapping one (i forgot which exactly these are) those are fundamentals any artist can benefit from. Doing these digitally especially with pixelart is just gonna make them harder and more complicated, so I recommend to do them on paper. The drawing straight line exercises aren't really necessary for you I believe. But any lesson that helps you understand 3D shapes is valuable. But I also recommend to not overthink those lessons either, if you feel like it does nothing for you you can skip them and just practice in your own way with pixelart. | **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 | 46,416 | 10 | ||
wxtac6 | artfundamentals_train | 0.9 | Is drawabox useful for Pixel artists? I have tried DrawABox multiple times in the past and have only gotten past lesson 1, cause in pixel art you prioritize packing detail into small spaces rather than creating multi-layered or large compostions cause you have to place pretty much every single pixel and at my skill level ^(the floor.) You ARE placing every single pixel. Nobody who has done pixel art seems to talk about if Draw-a-Box is useful for their learning of fundaementals more so than just straight up drawing alot and learning from strictly pixel-art related tutorials. Is the world of pixel art (I use Aseprite by the way.) that different from digital drawing with smooth strokes and full Anti-aliasing? You still have to use Light and shadows, form and perspective and anatomy to a good degree if you have anything more than a 16x16 pixel canvas. In essence, is at least 80% of draw-a-box useful for beginner pixel artists? Or is more pixel oriented art tutorials more important? | ilswqkw | ilu61nk | 1,661,470,970 | 1,661,494,588 | 1 | 10 | **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.* | Idk, draw a box was very useful to me for understanding how shapes fit in a 3 dimensional space. I can’t see how useful it would be for pixel art since there isn’t much of focus on fluid motion and vanishing points in that medium. | 0 | 23,618 | 10 | ||
wxtac6 | artfundamentals_train | 0.9 | Is drawabox useful for Pixel artists? I have tried DrawABox multiple times in the past and have only gotten past lesson 1, cause in pixel art you prioritize packing detail into small spaces rather than creating multi-layered or large compostions cause you have to place pretty much every single pixel and at my skill level ^(the floor.) You ARE placing every single pixel. Nobody who has done pixel art seems to talk about if Draw-a-Box is useful for their learning of fundaementals more so than just straight up drawing alot and learning from strictly pixel-art related tutorials. Is the world of pixel art (I use Aseprite by the way.) that different from digital drawing with smooth strokes and full Anti-aliasing? You still have to use Light and shadows, form and perspective and anatomy to a good degree if you have anything more than a 16x16 pixel canvas. In essence, is at least 80% of draw-a-box useful for beginner pixel artists? Or is more pixel oriented art tutorials more important? | ilswqkw | ilxbpcf | 1,661,470,970 | 1,661,550,539 | 1 | 4 | **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 say give it another try. It’s good if you want to improve your overall art skills. I’m not super far along (working on the 250 box challenge), but I think it’s already helped with some of my spatial reasoning. Which is useful no matter what type of art you wanna do. Being able to sketch out your pixel art designs might also be helpful. | 0 | 79,569 | 4 | ||
wxtac6 | artfundamentals_train | 0.9 | Is drawabox useful for Pixel artists? I have tried DrawABox multiple times in the past and have only gotten past lesson 1, cause in pixel art you prioritize packing detail into small spaces rather than creating multi-layered or large compostions cause you have to place pretty much every single pixel and at my skill level ^(the floor.) You ARE placing every single pixel. Nobody who has done pixel art seems to talk about if Draw-a-Box is useful for their learning of fundaementals more so than just straight up drawing alot and learning from strictly pixel-art related tutorials. Is the world of pixel art (I use Aseprite by the way.) that different from digital drawing with smooth strokes and full Anti-aliasing? You still have to use Light and shadows, form and perspective and anatomy to a good degree if you have anything more than a 16x16 pixel canvas. In essence, is at least 80% of draw-a-box useful for beginner pixel artists? Or is more pixel oriented art tutorials more important? | ilswqkw | ilx8v6v | 1,661,470,970 | 1,661,549,352 | 1 | 2 | **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.* | Draw A Box teaches how to put ink on paper with fineliner pens, but it uses that technique because it's relatively simple to learn and translates well to other forms of art; its primary goal is to teach you how to look at a real object or reference images and be able to have a 3D concept of it that you can mentally manipulate into the form that you want to draw, break that concept down into primitive shapes that you can put on paper, and refine that into a finished image. That skill applies to any form your art may take - pixels, oil paintings, ink, whatever - and forms a foundation to build further skills and refinements of technique on top of. There might be a better resource to learn the things that DAB teaches that you'll want to know using the specific technique you'd like to learn/improve on, I'm not familiar enough to say, but you can definitely learn it here. | 0 | 78,382 | 2 | ||
wxtac6 | artfundamentals_train | 0.9 | Is drawabox useful for Pixel artists? I have tried DrawABox multiple times in the past and have only gotten past lesson 1, cause in pixel art you prioritize packing detail into small spaces rather than creating multi-layered or large compostions cause you have to place pretty much every single pixel and at my skill level ^(the floor.) You ARE placing every single pixel. Nobody who has done pixel art seems to talk about if Draw-a-Box is useful for their learning of fundaementals more so than just straight up drawing alot and learning from strictly pixel-art related tutorials. Is the world of pixel art (I use Aseprite by the way.) that different from digital drawing with smooth strokes and full Anti-aliasing? You still have to use Light and shadows, form and perspective and anatomy to a good degree if you have anything more than a 16x16 pixel canvas. In essence, is at least 80% of draw-a-box useful for beginner pixel artists? Or is more pixel oriented art tutorials more important? | ilxbpcf | ilx8v6v | 1,661,550,539 | 1,661,549,352 | 4 | 2 | I say give it another try. It’s good if you want to improve your overall art skills. I’m not super far along (working on the 250 box challenge), but I think it’s already helped with some of my spatial reasoning. Which is useful no matter what type of art you wanna do. Being able to sketch out your pixel art designs might also be helpful. | Draw A Box teaches how to put ink on paper with fineliner pens, but it uses that technique because it's relatively simple to learn and translates well to other forms of art; its primary goal is to teach you how to look at a real object or reference images and be able to have a 3D concept of it that you can mentally manipulate into the form that you want to draw, break that concept down into primitive shapes that you can put on paper, and refine that into a finished image. That skill applies to any form your art may take - pixels, oil paintings, ink, whatever - and forms a foundation to build further skills and refinements of technique on top of. There might be a better resource to learn the things that DAB teaches that you'll want to know using the specific technique you'd like to learn/improve on, I'm not familiar enough to say, but you can definitely learn it here. | 1 | 1,187 | 2 | ||
xa6xfa | artfundamentals_train | 0.93 | Is it okay to move on with the lessons even though I still feel I have barely any control drawing from my shoulder? I did lesson 1 and 250 box challenge because drawing from my shoulder feels incredibly unfamiliar and just not right. But I do feel like my perspective has improved and when I draw with my wrist it's actually pretty decent, I think. I did the dissection exercise pretty much only with my elbow/wrist, should I just go back to lesson 1 and do ghosted lanes, planes, ellipses with my shoulder until it feels right, before I move onto Form intersections? | ins0rwr | invbr2i | 1,662,758,489 | 1,662,825,869 | 1 | 7 | **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 think the best solution here is just to keep going. Because you will be practicing drawing from your shoulder in the next lessons anyway. By doing the next exercices you will learn new stuff that will help you on the long run. You can always go back to exercices and practices later on, but right now (if it’s your first time doing draw a box) keep focusing on what’s ahead instead of what you are lacking right now. | 0 | 67,380 | 7 |
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