Drawabox.com | should i count reading the content of the lessons (and watching the drawabox videos of that lesson) into my "work" part of the 50% rule? by Jukesir

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Jukesir

Dimensional Dominator

should i count reading the content of the lessons (and watching the drawabox videos of that lesson) into my "work" part of the 50% rule?

4:01 PM, Tuesday August 1st 2023

i've come back to and re-read the 50% rule part of lesson 0 a copule times already and im still not sure if i should count reading the material of a specific lesson and watching the videos of those lessons into the "drawabox" half, or if im just putting unnecesary extra time onto myself,

for example when going trough lesson 0 there's no drawing whatsoever so if you spent for example 3 hours going through it, does that count for 3 hours of the 50% rule? or do only the drawing parts count? (for example actually drawing the ghosted lines in lesson 1)

i'm assuming you have to count the time spent reading and watching into the 50% rule, so i did but i just want to make sure

Ledvi21

Victorious
The Indomitable (Winter 2022)

1 users agree

8:50 PM, Tuesday August 1st 2023

You are just over-thinking it, yes watching the lessons and videos counts towards the "work" part of the 50/50 rule, because you are getting filled with a lot of concepts, ideas and theory that it takes time to let it sink in, not to mention that sometimes these concepts can be very stressfull.

To put it simply, the work part in the 50% should include your study time and your practice time both, and your other 50% time should be all about just playing and drawing for fun.

This also applies to any other art course or class outside of drawabox.

Jukesir

Dimensional Dominator

9:02 PM, Tuesday August 1st 2023

alright, thats understandable, i didnt know about it applying to other courses though, but i think the 50% rule shouldnt be a problem after im done with drawabox

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