tilkau in the post "Drawabox Resources. FAQ, Communities, Live Streams, Youtubers, etc."
2018-01-16 07:45
Yep, I didn't intend that as a criticism of the material; I'd considered how they applied to some elements of DrawABox, but also fully aware that people often skim your instructions to their detriment.
Mainly, I was hoping it could help people to disabuse themselves of the 'blocking-is-most-effective' myth, so they could explicitly strategize to learn more effectively both inside and outside of the scope of DrawABox.
tilkau in the post "Drawabox Resources. FAQ, Communities, Live Streams, Youtubers, etc."
2018-01-16 03:42
Over time I've noticed a number of people here mistakenly try to beat things to death with repetition.After watching This video about research into effective learning, I was convinced that people here could benefit from it, but unsure about whether to post it top-level.
So just posting it here for now, let me know what you think.
Subjects covered:
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Forgetting (and thus spacing things out in time) being an integral part of learning. You could hypothesize that the reason why is that the act of reconstructing things from memory inherently forces a level of abstraction.
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Repetition creates a feeling of fluency. But learning is closely related to struggling, so fluency is a measure more of stagnation than of success.
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Interleaving types of task / subjects (ABCABCABC or random selection) results in better retention than blocking (AAAAABBBBBCCCCC).
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Blocking gives better short term performance at the cost of long term performance. This short term performance boost results in a majority of people concluding that blocking helps them learn better. The correct conclusion seems to be it helps them cram, pass the test, and then forget most of it forever.
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The value of testing BEFORE you know the material. My guess is that this gets you more serious about the topic of study, so that you are primed to pay close attention to the study material and think more critically.
The above video is 30 minutes. This video hits a lot of the same points in 4 minutes, but doesn't include any of the data backing it up.
tilkau in the post "Frequently Asked Questions: I compiled a bunch of questions I felt were being asked rather frequently, so read through this list before asking your own."
2017-04-18 01:22
Since Uncomfortable can't speak personally to this, my comments:
I use a standing desk. Generally good for posture and fitness and okay for drawing (on my tablet, which is set up vertically), but because more blood needs to go to my legs, the degree of control I have when drawing is a bit less IME.
If you want to set up a horizontal drawing surface, be aware that the exact height you set up at can make the difference between ease and acute discomfort. Your forearm should be close to horizontal during most drawing operations.
tilkau in the post "Drawabox, /r/ArtFundamentals and Reddit going forward. My plans for the future, and the chance to include you lot in on the discussion."
2018-05-08 01:15
What you have described is mostly how Discourse works. Forums contain 'categories' (which can be interpreted as subforums), and you can look at all categories, or specific categories. Independently of that, each post has tags, and you can easily search a tag (example taken from pixls.us, which is a forum for discussing open source graphics processing). Naturally you can also combine those ('all posts tagged X in category Y')
Here's an example of a more complex search, which specifies a subcategory 'GMIC' within the category 'Software' and also selects the tag 'changelog'.
The only thing I don't think is (yet) covered is 'if there are no new posts within their preference, showing them a few posts from a different section'.