Draw ugly things Find things you like to draw or simple images or just lines. Then draw them. Badly. Very badly.

There is no such thing as "you can't draw." There is only "you cannot move your hand the way you want."

To learn that movement, like anything else, requires practice. Lots of directed, purposeful and time-spaced practice lies behind all the 'cool stuff on X or Y site.' This is not mindless drilling. This is not thousands of boxes without pause.

Practice trying to move your hand in the correct way: draw from the shoulder, look at images as built from peices and try drawing those peices. Ghost your lines: that is practice a line physically and mentally before drawing it. Warm-ups can help.

Only time will re-wire your body to the point it will respond to the command 'draw this.' The time is shorter for some and longer for others. Much much longer. You will forget things. You will do worse some days.

The images you want to make will never look like the images you do make. This is the failure. We all have to accept our failure. We move on from each failure by learning things from them. If you don't fail you don't learn. If you aren't failing your not challening yourself enough to learn. You don't climb a wall by sitting on a couch.

If you read the review on the site, Roberton's book is one of the inspirations for Draw a Box. A lot of the early material in the book is similar to the content you will experience in the lessons. Like most drawing instruction books the information and instruction is very light. Unlike a full course, much has to be left out of any real physical book.

Several other people have published similar books since /r/artfundamentals and drawabox.com have existed. Many of those incorporate techniques found here. And as with How to Draw they are by necesity abbreviated. A full course of basics like Draw-a-box can fill in the missing peices to let you leverage these books to their fullest. But they may not help as much in the opposite direction.

What the book don't and can't add is useful feedback. So draw something. Then show it to someone who can critique it. Take those elements of a critique you don't understand and ask questions. Take those you do see and work on chaning how you do them.

The fact it is an UGLY drawing does not matter. If you learn from it, next drawing can and will be less ugly. For a learning course, this is the only thing that matters.