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11:31 PM, Sunday February 13th 2022

The answer varies a lot depending on what type of drawing you want to pursue.

Before getting to a few that I know of I'll point out that if you do pursue other learning materials at the same time that it requires adjustment to the 50% rule mentioned in lesson 0.

Ultimately you want to split your time 50/50 between learning and drawing for yourself, this means if you're spending an hour on Drawabox work, you spend an hour (or however long you typically spend) drawing for yourself as well. If you add other lessons into that you need to make a choice between two options, splitting that hour into 30 minutes for Drawabox and 30 for your other material of choice and then an hour for yourself. The other option being an hour for DaB, another hour for your other material and then 2 hours for yourself.

Apologies for the lengthy explanation but we've seen plenty of people try to take on too much at once and burn out because of it so we try to make it clear that it either means slowing down your progression or taking up lots more of your time.

With that out of the way there are some recommendations here and here. One of the books mentioned (How to Draw) is discussed a bit more in-depth here.

Some other recommendations are:

2:20 AM, Monday February 14th 2022

ok thanks

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Ellipse Master Template

Ellipse Master Template

This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.

I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.

No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.

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