thanks a lot for your real and serious response.
you have a good point and i guess i'll definitely try it out though i really wouldn't know which other (free) course has the same structure and long term development as DrawaBox.
i'll definitely still look into it though.
do you know of any alternate resources ?
I'm glad I helped. Draw a Box is unique in many ways, as you have said. And if I had to choose only one paid resource, I'd invest my money here.
That said, and assuming you are in the broad spectrum of the beginning stage, here are some free resources I would definitely check out:
You can take the 14 days free trial on Skill Share and study Marco Bucci "Understanding and Painting the Head", which costs 30 dollars on his site (and maybe come back in the future and buy the course to support his amazing work).
Proko, as you probably know, shares free versions of his premium videos on Figure Drawing and Anatomy.
The New Masters Academy has grown a lot in the last years and now it's offering is incredibly vast and better structured. With the 7 days free trial, you can follow Steve Huston Beginner or Advanced Head Construction, or his beginner course on Figure Drawing. Or choose a course from some other master. I would avoid painting because painting courses easily reach 40 hours of content.
Dorian Iten offers one of the best paid course on Light and Shading, but you can find a mini version of the course on his site with the formula “pay what you want”.
Ctrl+Paint offers a huge amount of free content on digital painting.
I don't know if you noticed, but in his last tweet Uncomfortable shared the old Draw a Box lesson on Composition. Good stuff for free!
thanks for the well researched response!
i'm not that much of a beginner anymore though i've only started taking my drawing seriously about 3 months ago, i'll still take a look at different courses, of course.
would you recommend finishing drawabox first before moving on to different courses or should i go ahead and study human anatomy as well alongside drawabox?
In the FAQ it says that you can definitely take other courses meanwhile: https://drawabox.com/faq/mixandmatch
You are clearly more experienced than I am, so if you feel comfortable manipulating organic forms in 3D space, I guess you could take an anatomy course and get a lot out of it.
Studying smart and having a solid plan is great, but beware, because perfectionism thrives in these situations. If you feel like an anatomy course would be interesting or fun, just go for it! You can adjust the aim later or discover, as I did, that studying constructive head drawing while in the middle of the 250 box challenge was a very good idea in the end. Even though I wasn't ready for that :)
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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