So, I am going to do drawabox in that time. I've tried doing drawabox and reaced drawabox lesson 5 and cylinder challange and I am going to do it once again from 1-7. Anything I should keep in mind or should I reconsider because I really want to learn to draw vehicles.
I mean it's totally up to you if you want to do it, but that seems like an extremely short amount of time to do each lesson. Most of the critique I get from u/uncomfortable comes from the angle that I can rush through things sometimes, leading to me having to go back and do exercises again until I fully understand the scope of the lesson. Aside from that, you also have to keep in consideration that you should be operating on the 50% DrawABox, 50% Free drawing. Just doing the math on that, if you draw for 8 hours a day; 4 hours DrawABox and 4 hours free-drawing, that would be 120 hours for DrawABox in a month. There are a total of 82 pages with varying exercises, all of which have varying levels of difficulty and shouldn't be rushed. But if we are to horribly average them out, that would be about 1.5 hours for each page of homework. While that number is more than acceptable for earlier ones, it may be more difficult to achieve that later on in lessons. We haven't even factored such challenges like the 250 box, cylinder, or chest challenge in, all of which beckon a ridiculous amount of time to complete. Also you should probably do the reading and watch the videos.
All of this is technically achievable, but you would have to push yourself to do that amount per day consistently for 30 days. I don't know how feasible it is, as I'm only on lesson 2 but ultimately, it's up to you to decide what you're capable of.
Good point, I think I am going to extend it to 2 months
Don't extend it to 2 months. It's better to do 2 lessons well than to do 7 rushed lessons, you'll get more out of it.
Take the time you need to do each lesson, and do your best to learn on every step. You will learn throughout the whole course, the knowledge doesn't instantly come after finishing lesson 7.
Ah, ok. I'll try my best
A realistic timeframe without rushing is 26 weeks. If you can finish 1 lesson every 2 weeks and 1 challenge every month, that would be 26 weeks. So it's 6.5-7 months. Also, it's doable even with patreon. That's the fastest that you can go without rushing. If you really wanted to draw vehicles that bad then you can do it drawing for fun 50% of the time. 1 month is ridiculous imo.
It is actually counterproductive to do a forced march through the course IMO. There is a reason for the critique rules that slow you down.
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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