sephirothxxl in the post "Can this help with digital art?"
2022-02-20 09:54
Well as a (digital) artist, I would recommend you to limit yourself to paper/pencil for the exercies only.
What you learn with drawabox are certain fundmentals. The will eventually help ou becoming a better artist. But drawing Digitally is whole other story and putting too much on your learning curve rather confuses you, than help you.
Having a good line art on digital requires you to have it on paper too. Once you have a decent line art on paper, you can way more easily adopt it to Procreate and whatnot.
sephirothxxl in the post "I'm going insane with the ellipses in the 100 treasure chests challenge"
2022-01-02 10:11
Well some things just take time. Ellipses are one of the harder to draw things, so accept that at first. The challenges aren't there to draw 100 perfect boxes. Rather You learn to perfect you drawings over volume. Compare your first ten ellipses with your last 10 ellipses and you will see a big difference.
Stay away from templates and such. You wan't to learn to draw a good ellipse with the swing of your hand, not with a template. Mistakes are part of the journey, this is what you cannot avoid.
Marshall Vandruff once cited o book of a study of clay pot makers. Group A was Making during the study 1 Pot. The assignment was to make out of one try the best pot they could do. The other group was meant to make as many pots as they can during the same time. Imagine, those pots really looked less then perfect.
So after the assignment, both groups were asked to now make the best pot they can . Can you guess who made the best one ? By far those who did many pots. Why ? Because our brain is not working or learning through perfection, but approximation value. Every error teaches you how to use your muscles and brain better. Keep the flow. Make many chest, make many mistakes and learn how to do really good ellipses along with it.
By the way the chests look pretty neat already. Not like a 3d animation, but very good still. give yourself some credits man.
sephirothxxl in the post "The Other 50% with draw a box"
2022-11-05 13:19
Well I think the idea behind the 50% is, that you can spend an entire lifetime practicing, without ever drawing of the sake of drawing.
People are often quite puzzled what to actually draw, when they stop photocopying.
Every starting artist feels this gap that is opening up, when he wants to be free to draw anything, but just doesnt know what.
My advice ? Find a project that suits you. Even if it is Portrait. But instead of "learning", make "experimenting" or "failing" your goal. You might - as a starter - look up for different creative ways of doing portrait. for example glueing a torn newspaper on the blank sheet and drawing over it.
If you have no clue what to do, take something you can do at leas a little bit and change it, turn it into something new. This way you build up creative vocabulary and ability, which is quite the contrary of the constructive approach of drawabox or most tutorials.
Make a series of maybe 10 portraits, each with a different approach. add strange color, a dot on the middle of the paper...whatever. This is where the fun starts and you can easily create new avenues in your creative thinking. After doing 10 portraits differently you can put them all next to each other and say: "Oh wow, look who neatly my portraits developed. Portrait number 11 should have even more of this crazy background, I like." Welcome to life.