BisSenshi

You're welcome! Good luck!

Hello,

Here are my advices. You first say that "when you're doing the rotated boxes exercices, it feels like forever". I also have this troublesome relationship with time while I'm drawing. What about using a timer? Your smartphone should have an alarm function. Pick up between 45 minutes and 1 hour and see how it goes. Once the alarm rings, stop and make a 10 minutes breaks. If you are really tired, you may go down to only 30 minutes, if you're not that means that the timing feats you. You can do this several time during a single day.

Despite of what people think learning to draw can be tiresome especially for beginners because it requieres concentration. Tireness may be responsible for your other problems (such as woobling lines). Warm-up is the content itself of the lesson so you can really say you're not doing them so don't worry too much :)

It's just that you're a beginner, so you need time to register how to execute the exercices correctly.

I advice you to go by Ceaser's motto "divide and conquer". First the ghosting method. Post some 3 or 4 pages with lines and dots on the discord and ask for feedback. You need to identify first what are the problems because Draw A Box courses focuses on correct mark making, so you need to show that you learned how to do it to get your badges..

Then you can do the same for the following exercices of lesson 1.

Finally about the rotated boxes exercices. It is the final exercice of lesson 1 and it is quite challenging. I advise you to re-watch the video of unconfortable and to post incomplete versions of the exercice on the discord. First you should only draw the horizontal lines of boxes to put it on the discord and make sure from feedback that you're not making mistake at this stage. Then, some days after, another page with this time the horizontal line and the vertical line of boxes in perspective. These two lines are used as reference to place the others boxes on the page, so they must be correctly put on the paper sheet.

I hope that all these pieces of advice will be useful. Good luck!

I agree with Uncomfortabale. A two months break is not a lot of time. I advise you to try the 250 boxes challenge. I advise you to simply draw 4 or 5 pages with boxes on it and post it on the discord to get some free feedback. You'll identify potential problems along with possible instructions miss interpretations.

Good luck!

I see. Indeed when you browse the internet, you notice that artists have a lot of advise. My art teacher for example recommands the one-line silhouette drawing as a warm-up so that you wrist muscles can be flexible and ready to make curves.

It is said to have been created by Picasso himself!

As I validated lesson 2, I think I'll add the organic for and the contour form exercice to the warm up on top of those from lesson 1.

As I still need training with the texture exercice I'll also add it when I have enought positive feedback on the discord.

Thanks for the answer!

I confirm that you didn't say that only exercices from lesson 1 should be the one from lesson 1. Hence my question. So how deep goes the "pool of warmup" exercices?

Lesson 3's eight pages of plant drawing and lesson 4 arachnids drawing also does not look like warm up exercices. But the 250 boxes challenge and the cylinder challenge and even the wheel does seem to feet into that category.

On the draw a box course, what would be the complete list of the exercices intended to become warm-up exercices after beeing understood sufficientily and validated by a Teaching Assistant?

As always thanks for you answer!

Could someone please have a look (using the link I put above) to my work on cylinders and give his/ her opinion if I've done the checking correctly?

I've made the challenge once but I could get the badge because my axis were not correct in my cylinders and also because I didn't know how to check.

Thanks in advance for remarks and critics.

Could someone please have a look (using the link I put above) to my work on cylinders and give his/ her opinion if I've done the checking correctly?

I've made the challenge once but I could get the badge because my axis were not correct in my cylinders and also because I didn't know how to check.

Thanks in advance for remarks and critics.

Hello,

Yes if I were you, that's what I would do : working on the 250 boxes challenge. You'll need it for the exercices on lesson 3.

During the pending time feel free to post your boxes sample for feedback. You can also ask for feedback about the challenge itself as there are 2 main parts.

Good luck!

Thanks for answering my question

I took back my page and tried as you said to put the minor axis horizontally but then how do I know wich one is correct?

https://imgur.com/gallery/HgZez3c

https://imgur.com/gallery/X1ilJTF

Any comments on my try to find the center is welcome. Thanks again for your help!

Hello,

Thanks again for the critics. I was right into trying this challenge as there seems to be a lot of thinks for me to learn. I'll follow your advice and take (around) a year gap to focus on other courses.

Draw a Box is a drawing course for for intermediate to advance level students.

As you point you wich my current beginner level, If I keep on using a credit every month, it is very likely that either I'll have to re do everything or at least half of the exercice, which will make a lot of work for TA. I've found another course in my mother tongue and the website which host the formation includes a forum where I can post lots of questions, which is what I need to progress.

From time to time, I'll post new takes on the form intersections exercices, some texture analysis and some extract of the 250 cylinders challenges and ask other members about their opinions (without using credits).

I'll stop paying with patreon this week. Good luck in developing the website