FishToaster in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2017-05-28 20:18
Thank you for the excellent feedback! It's all a fair cop- especially the weak barley >.< Also, that Queen Anne's Lace demo was especially helpful. I was struggling with figuring out how to do construction between the largest layer (the dome) and the smallest layer (the petals). It seems pretty obvious now, having seen you do it. :D
As always, you do amazing work for practically nothing. Thank you!
FishToaster in the post "Lesson 3: Drawing Plants"
2017-05-28 06:32
Plants! http://imgur.com/a/kUgG6
(As always, thanks for the amazing resource you have in drawabox/artfundamentals).
FishToaster in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2016-10-04 05:56
Thanks!
FishToaster in the post "Lesson 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2016-10-03 01:10
I've moved out of my apartment and into a featureless opaque plastic sphere so I never have to think about texture again. :P
My submission: http://imgur.com/a/aGcec
FishToaster in the post "State of the Union - September vacation, and dealing with the overwhelming number of homework submissions"
2016-08-27 23:53
If you go the "limited enrollment"/lottery route, some thoughts:
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I don't know how much extra money actually increases your ability/willingness to take on more work, but... you could do some sort of sponsorship system. Like, "pledging $1 on patreon gets you critiques, but pledging $10 will open up an additional lottery slot for someone else." I don't know if this will work for everyone everyone, but I'd definitely be very motivated by the idea that I'm helping someone else get access to this amazing resource.
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Since it seems like the majority of submissions are in the first couple lessons, maybe only make those limited? That way, if the limited class only lasts for a month, a student just has to make it through the first two lessons in that time frame and then they can continue in through the lessons without being interrupted. This seems like it avoids the problem of people getting cut off once their class ends, but still allows you to drastically cut down on your workload.
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Whatever you do, I don't think anyone (reasonable) will be unhappy. When I first stumbled on your site I was amazed that all that high-quality content was free. "Surely there's some catch, right?" But nope. And then I saw that you were doing individual critiques. "Surely they're just a sentence or two, or he only reviews a small percentage of them, right?" Nope you write multiple paragraphs on everything that comes through. It's downright amazing. If you have to step down your commitment a bit, no sane person could fault you.
FishToaster in the post "Drawabox 2.0 has been released - a full website rebuild, revisions of lessons up to 7 and 19 new videos"
2018-12-25 19:24
Im sure Im just echoing what everyone else has already said, but: thanks for all your hard work! DaB is a truly amazing, unique, and somehow free resource.
In programming, there are a ton of Learn X in 10 days! kind of books. A lot of people try them and come away frustrated that they didnt really learn all that much. In response to that, there have been a bunch of books titled in the format Learn X the Hard Way. Theyre a lot of work, and they neither promise nor deliver easy answers. Theyre full of exercises, and although theyre not that long, they take a long time to get through if you do all of them. Theyre great for people tired of Learn X in 10 days books.
When I got started drawing, I was really looking for Learn Art The Hard Way. There are a ton of tutorials and videos, many of which end up looking like reddit.com/r/restofthefuckingowl. DaB was a godsend for people like me with little-to-no experience, but a willingness to start from nothing and stick with it.
I dont know how far Ill get with drawing. Ive been at it a few years and I expect to be at it for decades to come. But however far I get - however good I get - Ill owe it to DaB and your work.
Thank you. :)