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11:37 PM, Sunday August 15th 2021
edited at 11:38 PM, Aug 15th 2021

Try figure drawing using primitive shapes (boxes, cylinders, spheres)! Not only will you improve your basic drawing skills, but you will see HUGE improvements in your spatial awareness and basic anatomy skills for drawing items later. In general that's just a good skill anyways, to boil complex shapes down to simple shapes that you can then build off from. If you google "Figure Drawing simple shapes" you will get the idea. It's difficult when you first start, but you will learn to appreciate how much you can visually represent with these simples shapes!

edited at 11:38 PM, Aug 15th 2021
11:41 PM, Sunday August 15th 2021

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwid-InFmbTyAhVTOH0KHaotCCMQtwJ6BAgDEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DWQKqH8FUdgc&usg=AOvVaw27oxz7A01o2FTJ28NUEEUy

This is a great videa on drawing cylinders in perspective, which is probably the only skill you haven't practiced yet up to this point. Once you can draw boxes and cylinders in perspective you will be off to the races!

7:18 AM, Monday August 16th 2021

Thank you, this looks very interesting. Although it reminds me of the final drawabox lessons. Isn't this a bit advanced? I'll just look up tutorials and see what I can do.

2:39 PM, Monday August 16th 2021

you actually do start going over some cylinder material in lesson 2, but if the cylinders look too intimidating just stick to boxes! the way i see it drawing these basic primitive drawings with simple shapes is basically the 250 box challenge with application! And to your second question about this looking like the final lesson, yes in that you start with primitives, but with that lesson you use the simple shapes to influence your decision making for the more complex shapes. I think that is really what they are trying to show with the 250 box challenge, once you lay down the simple framework, youre decision making for more complex shapes is greatly simplified!

2:49 PM, Monday August 16th 2021

https://imgur.com/a/wIOQgXc

Here are some example ideas to get you started! I did these for a different website called ArtWod (also great website), but the first image you can see I'm just playing with basic shapes and the second I'm applying the basic shapes to show a simplified figure drawing. A ruler will help you immensely in these early stages to help build shape knowledge and working in perspective, drawing lines towards the vanishing point. Hope all this helps mate! Again if cylinders look terrible, just stick to the boxes

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