So the thing to keep in mind here is that Drawabox isn't trying to teach you techniques, or tips-and-tricks to use when drawing. What Drawabox strives to accomplish goes much deeper than that. It is about fundamentally rewiring the way in which your brain perceives the world in which the things you draw exist. Of course, there are also other habits and ways of thinking we try to instill (the patience to think and plan before every mark you draw, the confidence to execute marks without hesitation and to trust in your muscle memory, etc) but the development of these spatial reasoning skills, and of this belief, is the main thing we focus on.

While you certainly can use constructional techniques in your own drawings - I use them when I run into especially tricky spatial problems - I do not expect students to employ them for every last little thing. Instead, it is that understanding of 3D space that will gradually bleed into how you draw, whether you want it to or not.

If you look at how I draw outside of this course - which you can actually see both in some of the first Lesson 0 videos, as well as in this video I did for Proko (the drawing starts around the 11:40 mark, and is included at various points after that), you'll see that my approach to drawing is much more fluid than the specific exercises we do in Drawabox. Sure, I do start with a bit of sketch exploration, but I only build up more notable scaffolding/structure where it's necessary. The rest of it exists in my head (though not specifically something I can actually see in my mind's eye, just more of an abstract sense of how forms and things relate to one another within 3D space). As I continue to draw more and get more experience, my need for even the loose sketch decreases, but I'm still at a point where having something there is quite helpful.

So when you're drawing your own stuff for the 50% rule (you are, right? you haven't.. forgotten?), you should feel free to draw in whatever way feels most comfortable to you. Don't go out of your way to strictly use the techniques you use here - rather, do what feels natural, and you will over time find that what feels natural to you will itself develop over time.