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Missing Human Figure Lessons

7:07 AM, Sunday June 21st 2020

Hello, I just started Lesson 3, and in the introductory video for the lesson, there were other lessons present on the DrawABox website for the human figure. It was labled as "Part Three" and came after lesson 7. I looked around the site for a bit, but as far as I can tell there is nothing currently available after Part Two/Lesson 7.

I'm most interested in drawing the human form, so I'd like to do those lessons whenever I would have gotten to them. Is there any way for me to access these pages on the site, or some kind of archive for them if they're not on the site right now?

Either way, thank you for the help.

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9:09 AM, Sunday June 21st 2020

The figure drawing lessons haven't been present on the website for a few years now, the intro videos in general are quite a bit older than some of the other content on the website. Basically, Uncomfortable wasn't happy with the level of polish on the figure drawing lessons and took them down. This was for a couple of reasons:

  1. Because it's such a popular subject, it would tend to be the thing that people would jump to first and the quality of the content reflected worse upon the rest of the lessons.

  2. Uncomfortable himself didn't feel particularly equipped to teach the subject and there are a lot of better resources out there for that kind of thing - e.g. Proko, Hampton, Loomis, etc.

There's unfortunately no intention to bring them back - the next lessons that Uncomfortable is looking to add to the curriculum are design/illustration ones, though they're a ways off as well. You can check out the other resources I mentioned above if you'd like to learn figure drawing from a more constructional perspective.

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3:45 AM, Wednesday June 24th 2020
edited at 3:46 AM, Jun 24th 2020

I don't believe those are available any longer. They were something that existed on an earlier version of Drawabox but Uncomfortable removed them from the curriculum because he didn't believe he was the best instructor for that content (if I remember correctly).

If you do want to study drawing the human form, Uncomfortable recommends Proko as a source of lessons in his recommended resources. The Andrew Loomis books are also a common recommendation for beginners since they're free and well respected.

*edit: somehow I completely missed that this had already been responded to. My apologies for not adding much to the conversation

edited at 3:46 AM, Jun 24th 2020
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5:36 AM, Thursday June 25th 2020

i dont think uncomfortable teaches that anymore, but there's a link to proko towards the bottom of the website, (if you're using pc), and he is great at teaching anatomy! I'd totally recommend checking him out, also he's doing a 30 day free trial on his website if you want to check it out. Hope this helps

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3:40 PM, Tuesday June 23rd 2020

I'm pretty sure Uncomfortable has mentioned in one of the lessons that he doesn't teach on the human form as there are already so many other great resources that teach that! (Proko especially.)

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