An small but simple question -- I am currently doing the 250 Box Challenge and have completed lesson one.
For each day I'm going to spend time drawing boxes for this challenge, do I spend time doing the warmups of lesson one for 10-15 minutes beforehand?
It's a good idea to start with a warm up so you aren't drawing messier boxes than needed as part of your actual submission.
Warming up with the lesson 1 exercises helps a lot. When I did the 250 Box, I ended the warm up with at least one box... more if I did not feel comfortable with the first practice box.
I typically do 1 full 8.5" x 11.0" page of warmups before any homework. I fill up the page with ghosted planes, ellipses, cylinders and boxes. I find that doing that for 10-15 mins dramatically improves the boxes I draw in the challenge. I'm about halfway through the 250.
Here we're getting into the subjective - Gerald Brom is one of my favourite artists (and a pretty fantastic novelist!). That said, if I recommended art books just for the beautiful images contained therein, my list of recommendations would be miles long.
The reason this book is close to my heart is because of its introduction, where Brom goes explains in detail just how he went from being an army brat to one of the most highly respected dark fantasy artists in the world today. I believe that one's work is flavoured by their life's experiences, and discovering the roots from which other artists hail can help give one perspective on their own beginnings, and perhaps their eventual destination as well.
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