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Questions about warm-ups

3:27 AM, Thursday April 17th 2025

Everyone knows that once we complete a lesson, we can use those exercises as warm-ups, however now there's the confusing part, we were taught "why" we need these warm-ups, but not "How".

Like "how" do we use these warm-ups?

  • Materials: what do we use to give these warm-ups to the fullest extent? I know that we don't need to give these warm-ups our very best, just saying what materials would be best when using these warm-ups.

  • quantity: I do know, we must put these warm-ups at little at 10-20 mins, but what quantity should we draw when doing warm-ups.

  • Time: besides after a long break from Drawabox, what other times shall that be best to use these warm-ups?

It's really confusing for me, I'm sorry, I needed this to be answered because I don't know how other students like myself use these warm-ups.

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5:00 AM, Thursday April 17th 2025
edited at 5:02 AM, Apr 17th 2025

Hello there LoafyCat,

I don't necessarily have the right answer to your questions: I am just another student who is doing the course.

The approach I have taken to the warm-ups so far is like this:

* Materials: basically the very same materials as the lesson. For instance, if the lesson was to draw the planes, then the lines inside the planes etc. I would use the same ink fine-liner, the same paper size etc. that was used for the lesson from which the warm-up is inspired.

* Quantity: I allocate one per day (sometimes randomly or out of preference), before working on a lesson or before working on a personal project

* Time: Good point. I never found myself needing to time-restrict my warm-ups because I am already quite busy and use whenever time available I have to study or draw.

That's it from me. Would also be happy to hear from others!

edited at 5:02 AM, Apr 17th 2025
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6:31 AM, Friday April 18th 2025

Hey there!

personally- I pick 2 warmups to do before each session of drawabox with a fine liner pen for about 15 minutes (5 minutes on one, 10 on the other) i sometimes use different materials to set up a page. (markers or ballpoint pen)

i dont count the time it takes to set up a page. for example the set up for rotated boxes or table ellipses.

once the timer is up, i can pickup wherever i was last time in the course

personally- i do not use these exercises outside of drawbox, since im gonna be doing this course for a while i figured there would be plenty of mileage i may do gesture or quick observational studies to warmup when i'm normally drawing- but i do intend to incorporate them after the course.

and dont worry about doing a full page of any given exercise- if you can pull of a page of rotated boxes in 10 minutes, you're either a magical drawing wizard or you were rushing and it didnt come out very well

use it as a chance to revisit the concepts from lesson 1 and what each exercise teaches- i constantly revisit lesson 1 videos whenever my memory is fuzzy on an exercise

hopes this helps!

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2:44 AM, Thursday April 24th 2025

I was actually wondering the exact same question, but a bit differently. I was especially confused on which exercises should be considered warm-ups, and how much to do them. I recently completed the 250 box challenge, and they said to add the exercise on boxes 151-250 to my warm-up pool. But, what is my warm-up pool exactly? I hope you or some others can answer some of my questions, and I hope I can answer some of yours.

  • Materials: I believe they should be the same as what you use for the Drawabox lessons; printer paper, a ruler, and a fineliner.

  • Time: Since they are called warm-ups, I believe you should do these before working on lessons or challenges to "warm up."

(idk what to do for quantity)

2:58 AM, Thursday April 24th 2025

We talk about warmups in Lesson 0, Page 3. Think of it like pulling names out of a hat - every lesson or challenge you complete will contribute exercises to this pool, and every time you do your warmups, you pick two or three exercises out of it at random.

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