Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:15 PM, Sunday January 26th 2025
Hello! Thanks for taking the time to review my homework :D
This is just a rant about my context, unrelated to the homework itself:
I did not have any experience with art before drawabox. I picked up the course because I would absolutely love to learn to draw everything that I imagine, but so far it's been a hard journey - I am always afraid to draw anything because it would look bad, and I've had this fear since I was a kid. So I never doodle anything, even though I love spending hours on pinterest looking at other people's art. I was hoping this course would help me build some confidence, but I still haven't really applied the 50/50 rule, because I don't know how to. What should I draw? My dream would be to draw some of the original characters I imagined, but I have no clue how to draw humans, so it's bound to look bad. Should I just start to draw by reference? I'm afraid that if I don't get the fundamentals right, I will just waste time on childish doodles (I tried to get over my fear and draw pikachu from a reference the other day, but after 5 minutes I gave up because I thought even a 5 yo could draw it better).
- Is the 250 boxes challenge optional? I would maybe do about 50 of them, but I am sure I will get lost and give up on my goal if I spend 3 months drawing boxes (because they look rather boring to me, and I really do not have time to draw more than an hour a day).