Anyone can learn to draw. It's not some magical talent a few people are born with. It's a skill you can train. We can help.

Drawabox is a set of free exercise-based lessons that focus on the fundamentals - the skills you'll need to make sense of all the other resources and tutorials out there. First we focus on the basic mechanics of mark making, and how to use your arm. By the end, we develop a strong understanding of form, 3D space and construction.

I won't lie to you - our approach is tough and involves a lot of hard work. It's also structured and gives you a clear path with concise explanations and assignments you can complete and submit for review.

You can read more about Drawabox and how it came about here.

Or you can join the community of thousands of beginners and professionals alike and get started.

Homework

Once you've completed a lesson, one of the best ways to refine your understanding of that material is to help others by critiquing their work. After having done thousands of critiques and having improved immensely over the last few years, I can attest to that myself.

  • Lesson 5: Applying Construction to Animals

    Liia

    6:12 PM, Thursday October 30th 2025
  • Lesson 5: Applying Construction to Animals

    CozmikBuja

    12:05 AM, Friday November 7th 2025
  • 250 Cylinder Challenge

    Paradosso

    8:44 AM, Friday October 31st 2025
  • Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants

    Susiani

    8:44 PM, Wednesday November 5th 2025
  • Lesson 7: Applying Construction to Vehicles

    TotalTempest

    1:50 AM, Friday October 17th 2025
  • Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants

    UwUless

    4:19 AM, Friday October 31st 2025
  • 25 Wheel Challenge

    joxmarf

    3:46 AM, Thursday October 23rd 2025
  • Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

    Leesha1997

    6:56 AM, Saturday November 1st 2025
  • Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

    Susiani

    9:58 PM, Friday October 31st 2025
  • Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

    Johnson2

    12:49 PM, Friday October 31st 2025

Questions/Discussions

Take a moment to answer someone's question, or contribute to a discussion, if you have anything to offer.

  • How much focus do you need to practice?

    SrCoeiu

  • Construction Drawing (Demos)

    AgesLABS

  • Do I restart the 250 box challenge now? (First 50)

    ashfenrir

  • Shape Vs Form

    AgesLABS

Sketchbooks

Along with Drawabox work, our community members also post other artwork to their sketchbooks.

  • ashfenrir's Sketchbook: Drew a Zebra guy

  • magicalorangetoad's Sketchbook: Daily drawing practice

  • Bavya's Sketchbook: Quick free draw between classes (11/05/2025)

  • EisenCo's Sketchbook: Hephaestus on the Picket Line

  • sunbeam's Sketchbook: room

Below this point is mostly ads. Indie projects, and tool/course recommendations from us.
This section is reserved for low-cost advertising space for art related indie projects.
With how saturated the market is, it is tough for such projects to get eyes on their work.
By providing this section, we hope to help with that.
If you'd like to advertise here, you can do so through comicad.net
The recommendation below is an advertisement. Most of the links here are part of Amazon's affiliate program (unless otherwise stated), which helps support this website. It's also more than that - it's a hand-picked recommendation of something we've used ourselves, or know to be of impeccable quality. If you're interested, here is a full list.
Ellipse Master Template

Ellipse Master Template

This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.

I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.

No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.

We use cookies in conjunction with Google Analytics to anonymously track how our website is used.

This data is not shared with any other parties or sold to anyone. They are also disabled until consent is provided by clicking the button below, and this consent can be revoked at any time by clicking the "Revoke Analytics Cookie Consent" link in our website footer.

You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.