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 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids

    BurntMallowz

    12:54 PM, Sunday April 12th 2026
  • Lesson 6: Applying Construction to Everyday Objects

    amirstl

    3:37 AM, Friday April 10th 2026
  • Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants

    Hello_Fury_Fly

    7:59 AM, Thursday April 9th 2026
  • Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants

    indigoOcean

    9:38 PM, Sunday April 5th 2026
  • Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

    TheUdder_9

    2:33 PM, Thursday April 9th 2026
  • Lesson 3: Applying Construction to Plants

    Kut

    2:10 AM, Thursday April 9th 2026
  • Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

    HerbKirb

    3:35 AM, Tuesday April 7th 2026
  • Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction

    FerrousAlloys

    4:55 PM, Monday April 6th 2026
  • Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids

    prem9905

    7:29 PM, Monday April 6th 2026
  • Lesson 4: Applying Construction to Insects and Arachnids

    janaIsDrawing

    6:23 PM, Saturday March 28th 2026

Questions/Discussions

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

  • Warm-up Checking mistakes

    Laxes

  • Lesson 2 -Form intersections

    Adalwin06

  • Do exercises and demos go to the warmup pile?

    SrCoeiu

  • Struggling with drawing from the shoulder - advice? :D

    KTATER

Sketchbooks

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

  • ThinEggplant4639's Sketchbook: freja from Overwatch

  • janaIsDrawing's Sketchbook: 50% rule dump from March / April 2026

  • MaxCCC's Sketchbook: Totoro x Marinette

  • Gloria_LLopart's Sketchbook: The goblin snow games

  • mrpires's Sketchbook: Some 50%

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Michael Hampton's Gesture Course

Michael Hampton's Gesture Course

Michael Hampton is one of my favourite figure drawing teachers, specifically because of how he approaches things from a basis of structure, which as you have probably noted from Drawabox, is a big priority for me. Gesture however is the opposite of structure however - they both exist at opposite ends of a spectrum, where structure promotes solidity and structure (and can on its own result in stiffness and rigidity), gesture focuses on motion and fluidity, which can result in things that are ephemeral, not quite feeling solid and stable.

With structure and spatial reasoning in his very bones, he still provides an excellent exploration of gesture, but in a visual language in something that we here appreciate greatly, and that's not something you can find everywhere.

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