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12:58 PM, Friday November 6th 2020

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!

11:59 AM, Saturday November 7th 2020

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?

5:27 PM, Saturday November 7th 2020

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 :)

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Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.

Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.

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