i just finished lesson 1 and am wondering if i should start doing the warmups while i catch up on the 50% rule as i know it can take awhile to get community feedback and want to keep honing my skills
Logically, this does mean that since your warmup pool is empty prior to completing Lesson 1 (and confirming that you understand how to approach those exercises), you won't have any warmups to do. So don't worry about the warmups until you've gotten through the first lesson and received that confirmation.
Note: Keep in mind that everything we recommend or instruct applies only to the time you're spending working on this course and its homework (which does not include the 50% rule, which pertains more to how you spend time outside of Drawabox). So the "sittings" we refer to are when you're working on your Drawabox homework specifically.
https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/3/warmups
It depends. You are not using official critique so you are not obligated to follow the rules in the same way if you were doing the paid course. You could just move on to the 250 box challenge if you wanted to. Community feedback is not guaranteed, so it's possible you won't get any at all. You are more likely to receive feedback by requesting it in the critique exchange channel in the Drawabox discord.
This is another one of those things that aren't sold through Amazon, so I don't get a commission on it - but it's just too good to leave out. PureRef is a fantastic piece of software that is both Windows and Mac compatible. It's used for collecting reference and compiling them into a moodboard. You can move them around freely, have them automatically arranged, zoom in/out and even scale/flip/rotate images as you please. If needed, you can also add little text notes.
When starting on a project, I'll often open it up and start dragging reference images off the internet onto the board. When I'm done, I'll save out a '.pur' file, which embeds all the images. They can get pretty big, but are way more convenient than hauling around folders full of separate images.
Did I mention you can get it for free? The developer allows you to pay whatever amount you want for it. They recommend $5, but they'll allow you to take it for nothing. Really though, with software this versatile and polished, you really should throw them a few bucks if you pick it up. It's more than worth it.
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