4:24 AM, Monday April 21st 2025
I feel like this ties into the bigger question: "Where do I go from here?"
Full disclosure, I did not finish Drawabox yet. Congratulations on your accomplishment.
First, I would say I have heard professional artists say that they still do some line exercises just to get the arm warmed up. So maybe that one doesn't go away. Focus on l, C, S lines and all of the variations. Second, think of the rotating box exercise. Why just draw a box? Draw a box with a pyramid on one end and maybe take out a chunk out of one corner of the box. Now rotate that a couple of different ways. Think of all the ways you can take the basic shapes and alter and combine them. Look for some videos online that start talking about using line weight to show light direction. Third, take the object or vehicle construction exercises and rotate those. Look around your house. Draw the lamp from the table using construction. Now rotate that a few different ways. I would try to do this using construction but no rulers and quickly without worrying too much about accuracy. The mental gymnastics required to mentally rotate something in your head is plenty of exercise. The texture exercise? Wrap that texture around a sphere of cylinder or more complicated shape. This may require looking at some videos outside of Drawabox however.
Just suggestions from someone who did the same exercises for a long and got a little bored. I'm sure other people have expanded on the basic exercises.