LucyMoraes38

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    12:04 AM, Sunday February 19th 2023

    https://youtu.be/OwqLzyusElM

    I really like this video I think it'll help you.

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    6:54 AM, Sunday February 12th 2023

    One thing you might try is to find an accountability buddy or small group who is interested in going at a similar pace as you, and is also early in the process. (Maybe look on discord or reddit.) When I don't feel like drawing, having a small group who is also working on it helps me pick up the pen and draw.

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    1:49 AM, Sunday February 5th 2023

    I believe it does exactly as intended: developing spatial reasoning. I don't know if it is the most affective way, and it may not be for everyone, but it has definitely been affective for me. I have begun to internalize how to think about representing three dimensional on a two dimensional surface. Now, when I am drawing, the lines on the page almost "feel" three dimensional. This is so fundamental that it can't be over emphasized. No matter what medium you use, understanding this illusion is fundamental.

    What the program isn't is a method of learning how to draw pretty pictures. But after you have done Drawabox, drawing those pictures gets easier. So when you ask for before and after pictures, I don't know if I can provide those. I have used other programs to improve specific aspects of drawing, but Drawabox laid the foundation.

    Also, it is free and online. Hope this helps.

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    11:42 PM, Saturday January 21st 2023

    In my experience, the skill you're talking about is "design". Not design in the sense of graphic design, but design in the sense of identifying the large overarching problem you're attempting to solve through the design of a given thing - a character, a prop, a vehicle, a space, etc. - and breaking it down into smaller problems (especially through the identification of those smaller problems), and ultimately using the tools at your disposal to solve it. Those tools can range from your "visual" library (a collection of visual and/or spatial information pertaining to the various objects and things you've studied from what kinds of hinges exist to achieve different kinds of mechanical motion, to motifs and patterns employed by certain cultures), to a particular combination of shapes, proportions, etc. usually referred to as shape or form language.

    Each of these things can be practiced or developed. For getting used to the idea of viewing design as problem solving, give this video a watch. It's a preview for a larger course, but for the purposes of what I've explained here, the video is sufficient and the rest of the course talks about other related things. For developing your visual library, doing drawing/painting studies of a wide variety of things is the best way to absorb and process things in a way that will actually help you retain bits and pieces that you'll be able to pull out later. And the matters of form/shape language and proportion comes down to much the same (studying how other people leverage shape/proportion/etc in their own work) and experimenting with its application in your own work.

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    8:30 PM, Monday January 9th 2023

    What always helps is to go back to the videos and read the material again. I'm on box 185 now and experience that boxes will get better and worse again and then better again. Just keep going and look forward to that moment when you'll groe more confident with practice.

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    8:14 PM, Monday January 9th 2023

    20 boxes is still very early on in the challenge and it should start to click further on. Patterns should emerge as you get further into the challenge and the way you'll see the boxes will change greatly. Mistakes will become more obvious. I will echo PandaCatLad, as long as you understand the objectives you're shooting for then you should be alright.

    I'd be happy to look at a few of your boxes, if you'd like some feedback.

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    3:42 PM, Wednesday January 4th 2023

    It isn't possible for a normal box. You're getting this in this case because the form you have is more of a trapazoidal shape, making it seem like there's a vanishing point on the bottom. If this were a box and all the lines converged properly that vertical vanishing point would be on top.

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