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7:07 PM, Wednesday August 11th 2021

First of all, thank you very much for your answer, it has been very enlightening and helpful.

On my approach to Draw a box I'll be honest ... My first intention when I discovered draw a box was upbeat math. 7 lessons + 5 challenges = 12 months maximum and I delusionally believed that this approach was fine, so I started lesson 2. Lesson 2 took 50 days, 50 days to break my brain and after that a few extra days to take oxygen. Lesson learned: Things take time. I have assumed that there are lessons that will take me a long time and others that, I suppose, a little less and that trying to force the machine only leads to disaster.

I think looking for other courses is a way to keep motivated

And in short, fulfill the final purpose: draw a lot.

Thanks again for your reply, I liked it and it helped me a lot.

Good luck on your journey,

a greeting

11:59 PM, Wednesday August 11th 2021
edited at 12:00 AM, Aug 12th 2021

I'm close to 18 months in and just completed lesson 5. So I'm taking it slow too. It can be quite dry at times so I tend to binge and purge. I'm not sure it gets easier but if you don't get prior lessons internalised it will be much harder than necessary.

I can testify to the benefits though, they bleed into any other drawing you do. I'm

I always recommend Aaron Blaise's courses as being very good value ( especially if you buy membership when it's on offer to get access to everything ). Depends on what your interest is. There's certainly no shortage of online options these days.

edited at 12:00 AM, Aug 12th 2021
8:52 AM, Thursday August 19th 2021

18 months ... That's amazing! I am convinced that you have learned a lot about drawing along the way, but also about yourself. Time management, frustration management, patience, constancy, self-motivation... and many more things that explicitly do not have to do with drawing skills but are implicitly invaluable in drawing and in everything else.

I didn't know Aaron Blaise, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for taking the time to reply.

Greetings,

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