2:26 PM, Friday July 4th 2025
Yes, I saw the content of drawabox again I looked for something useful on YouTube and I would also look on discord but these sites were exactly what I needed
Thanks man
Yes, I saw the content of drawabox again I looked for something useful on YouTube and I would also look on discord but these sites were exactly what I needed
Thanks man
Thanks for the great feedback. I did have some trouble with a few textures. In fact, negative space is something I'm still struggling with. But these diagrams are going to be really helpful for me. I also still want to do the 25 texture challenge, so… I’ll definitely apply some of this feedback when I’m working on that too.
Look, I don't know if it's the same thing, but I'll tell you what I went through, and what I'm still going through in relation to my visual library studies and also about free drawing. I started making a sketchbook in mid-January and I haven't even gotten close to halfway through yet. Anyway, it turns out that before it took me 10, 20 days and now it's taking me five, four, three days. To complete each page and I really make a mess, and most of them I don't really admire but some I even think are incredible. I just do whatever comes to mind, a lot of things have to do with the class I was in at Drawabox. And when I wanted to practice my visual library, I would always procrastinate and look for something to do. I'm changing that, just doing it. So, I also felt that way because I didn't know what to draw, I didn't think I could draw that and I said, well, let's do it. This notebook I'm talking about is a bit big, so I think one of the things you can do is buy an unlined notebook, a bit smaller than a school notebook, because with each page you complete you feel more capable and you can put on some music that you like while you do this free drawing, for activities and exercises that involve more focus, I don't think it's good, but for free drawing it's interesting as long as you don't become a hostage to it, you know, wanting to listen to music more than drawing (I also noticed that this happened to me) and at least with me this procrastination, fear and such is a bit of a reflection of how I am as a person, in everyday life as I improved in other aspects this also improved (I don't know if this is your case) here on drawabox there's also a topic about this I'll leave a link in case you haven't seen it.
https://youtu.be/mgl6Ll3K3gw?si=VDLvgGJCAMY0zQpe
https://imgur.com/a/dRqhKcI. Two pages of my sketbook, the most recently and one that I like
Anyway, I hope it helped and sorry for the huge text.
So I wanted to know which ones had turned out better to use more or less as a reference but through your explanation I can already do that thank you.
I hope it's okay but I did all 50 today but at different times
Ok. Thank you very much for attention
My question is whether this point where the two lines of contact meet means the place where the minor axis would best align with the ellipse similar to X to find the center of a square. But from what you said I don't think it's anything like that. I'm tripping.
Thank you very much
My time is still around thirty minutes but I think it's getting better. And I realized how little effort I was putting into keeping the lines clean.
Thanks for your attention and for another feedback.
This correction method that you used now, pointing out exactly where I went wrong, was amazing for me now because only now did I really realize what I was doing wrong, even though you had already said why I was so worried about not leaving it flat that I forgot about making the inside part like a cube, for example, drawing the inside part. I'm going to practice this and thank you for your patience and feedback.
I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.
Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.
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