Uncomfortable in the post "Lesson 2, Exercise 5: Form Intersections: I have no idea how to go about checking the accuracy of these."
2022-07-08 16:09
This subreddit doesn't allow single exercises or partial work, as explained here, and as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. For the subreddit, we're pushing students to post complete lesson work.
Now, while this exercise is introduced at this point in the course not with the expectation of having students fuss over the accuracy of their intersections (these things rely heavily on the kind of spatial reasoning we're working to develop throughout the course as a whole, with this only being the point at which we're planting a seed in the student's mind to have them start thinking about how different forms can actually relate to one another in 3D space) - so fretting over whether or not they're correct at this point isn't really necessary - it is worth mentioning that your intersections look fine.
Uncomfortable in the post "Not interested to became an artist"
2022-07-08 16:07
What Drawabox teaches is not the production of art, or how to be an artist. It teaches a concrete skill - drawing - which is a tool that is indeed used in "art" but also as a tool for communication, and to produce all kinds of things that may not have any "artistic" intent.
The resources on the drawabox website are there for free, without limitation, and you can use them in whatever way you wish. The only restrictions that arise are for those looking to submit their homework for official, paid critique, because imposing those restrictions is the only way we can offer that service.
That said, if your goal is to learn to "draw decently", then your goal is not any different from the other people going through this course. So it would be a mistake to try and set apart your circumstance. All of the recommendations and suggestions of how the course should be used, therefore, do apply to you. Whether you follow them is your business, but they are there to help students make the best of these resources, and so going through the work digitally and attempting to squeeze it all into a very limited 3-4 month timeline will undermine what you get out of the course.
That said, as far as the timeline goes, plenty of students tackle this course and don't finish. That's not a bad thing - the course is not all or nothing, you gain things every step of the way. So I would say that it would be more beneficial for you to go through the course, investing as much time as you require to do everything to the best of your ability without rushing to try and finish it all in 3-4 months. After those three or four months have passed, you will probably not be close to finishing the course, but you will have grown and developed a fair bit (depending on how closely you follow those instructions, anyway).
Conversely, if you try to rush through it and pack it all into that limited timeline, it's more likely that you'll walk away with a lot less to show for it.
Uncomfortable in the post "Thanks for critique"
2022-07-08 16:00
Try posting this to /r/digitalpainting or /r/learnart. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.
Uncomfortable in the post "Posting original art online"
2022-07-06 18:43
Try asking this over on /r/artistlounge. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.
That said, while I understand your worries, this manner of thinking is only going to limit you in the future. The fear of having one's work used inappropriately by others is certainly not abnormal, but giving into it effectively forces one to punish themselves for things that may occur, and things whose impact on you may be minimal if they do occur.
I've been drawing and posting my art online for almost the last two decades, and while I have had a logo design taken by some company to print on t-shirts, this had absolutely no impact on me whatsoever - because I wasn't selling that logo on shirts. If I had been, then it's also unlikely that the audience I was targeting would be bothering with some random, sketchy online store based in china, so I don't expect I'd have lost much in the way of sales anyway.
Conversely, if I were so afraid of all the possibilities of people stealing my work and taking credit for it, I could have slapped a watermark on each and every piece - but doing so would have effectively messed with the composition of those pieces themselves, because stamping another graphic on top is going to impact the way in which the viewer perceives the work. It becomes distracting, and when you're specifically composing a piece to guide the eye around it in a certain way, messing it up with a semi-transparent watermark begs the question - why did I bother in the first place.
Of course, the alternative is not to post anything online at all... which I certainly wouldn't argue against, but it sure does seem like a loss for the others who might enjoy your work, and for the things you might one day be able to achieve with them.
While I have resolved not to concern myself with what other people do, so long as it does not infringe upon my own brand and my ability to do the things that make me happy, there is one simple suggestion I have that will generally make the worries of art-theft a non-issue: never upload anything in a larger resolution than is needed. The resolution needed to display something in a gratifying way on a monitor or a TV is actually pretty low. 72ppi is what was used historically, though I'm unsure about these days with 4k displays - but even those lower resolution images look fine when scaled up on a denser display.
Print, however, varies a lot. You need 300 pixels per inch - fall too far below that threshold and your image will appear blurry and indistinct. So, in order to create physical merchandise that doesn't look like total garbage, you need more resolution. So, down-size your images before you upload them to be shared, but keep the high resolution versions yourself. Should anything happen, at best the culprit will only be able to sell a shoddy piece of merchandise, leaving you free to sell merch at a higher quality should you so choose in the future. Furthermore, if someone for whatever reason claims that you're uploading their work, you'll be able to show screenshots of zoomed-in sections of a given piece to prove that you have the original files, which the other party would not be able to do. Of course, this sort of thing rarely ever happens.
All that said, being aware of things that can happen is fine, but don't limit yourself based on possibilities - especially not ones that are so unlikely to occur, and even less likely to have any impact on you.
Uncomfortable in the post "what lesson covers interlocking of forms?"
2022-07-04 18:49
Short answer: we first explore intersecting forms in Lesson 2, in the form intersections exercise.
Long answer: The form intersections exercise is where we first plant the seed of having students think about the ways in which their forms interlock and intersect in 3D space, but it is a major focus of this entire course. Understanding how to fit different forms together and how to define their relationships in 3D space relies heavily on one's spatial reasoning skills, which is essentially the main thing we work at developing in this course, from Lesson 1 all the way through 7. Even the constructional drawing lessons where we look at plants, insects, animals, vehicles, etc. are all just focused on understanding the relationships between forms.
So, as with anything in this course, you really shouldn't focus on any one exercise and expect it to solve a single specific issue. It's all interlinked, and there's no part of the course that exists without being somehow a stepping stone towards something else later down the road.
Uncomfortable in the post "Where do I find good front and side blockouts of people?"
2022-07-03 00:26
Try asking this over on /r/learnart or perhaps /r/ArtistLounge. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here. Drawabox focuses on the core fundamentals of drawing, and does not get into more advanced topics such as figure drawing or anatomy.
Uncomfortable in the post "graphite pencil"
2022-07-02 16:12
This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here. A question like this would be better suited for /r/learnart instead.
That said, it's a pretty easy answer. A #2 pencil is generally the same as an HB pencil (which is the most common you'll find being used for non-drawing purposes). As to #1, I didn't know off the top of my head, but a bit of googling suggests that it's the same as a B pencil (which is going to have softer lead and make a darker mark without as much pressure).
So, you should be good bringing an HB pencil and a B pencil to your exam.
Uncomfortable in the post "Need help, I can't imagine shapes in 3D"
2022-07-01 22:29
What you're describing is aphantasia - the inability to visualize things in your "mind's eye" so to speak. I have it too, and I've actually made a video on it for the Proko YouTube channel.
The bad news? I don't know of anyone who has "fixed" it. The good news? It's not actually going to hold you back as an artist. In my experience, it actually ends up being unexpectedly advantageous, at least at first. Those who can see things in their head get the impression that they should be able to draw what they "see" but what they perceive in their heads is not actual all the information they would need. It's only enough to recognize what they're imagining. So, they tend to get frustrated. Those of us who can't visualize in this fashion are faced without that kind of distraction or expectation.
Ultimately whether you can visualize or not, the skills you need to develop are the same. Spatial reasoning, observation, etc. These things take time and effort, but rest assured - you are not at a disadvantage. It's this hard for everyone, but it is entirely achievable.
If it helps, I've worked as a concept artist and illustrator for a video game studio for many years, before shifting to working on teaching full time, and like I said - I can't see a damn thing in my mind's eye.
Uncomfortable in the post "Lesson 1 Lines done. Please critique and advise if I can move on"
2022-07-01 22:16
This subreddit doesn't allow single exercises or partial work, as explained here, and as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. For the subreddit, we're pushing students to post complete lesson work.
Uncomfortable in the post "Fisrt task & post"
2022-06-30 12:14
This subreddit doesn't allow single exercises or partial work, as explained here, and as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. For the subreddit, we're pushing students to post complete lesson work.
Uncomfortable in the post "Drawing fruits and vegetables without texture"
2022-06-29 12:39
Smoothness is an absence of the textural forms- like bumps, scratches, etc. We focus on when adding texture in this course. Thus for our purposes, if it's smooth, generally we needn't add any texture.
You're confusing texture with decoration, which is leading you to add form shading, which as discussed in Lesson 2 should be left out of your drawings for this course.
Uncomfortable in the post "Doing texture exercises, would it be cheating to sketch out the texture in pencil first? Im finding it challenging to draw in details without mapping out the biggest shapes/shadows"
2022-06-29 12:35
Cheating isn't the word I'd use, but you would be deviating from the assignment, and that is something you should avoid in this course.
Uncomfortable in the post "Question about how uncomfortable is creating his lines, in photoshop, in his YouTube videos"
2022-06-28 21:18
Not really in a position to check the video, but if I had to fill something like that quickly, I'd use the polygonal selection tool to select the area, then fill it in.
Uncomfortable in the post "Can someone get a job in less than 3 years of drawing experience?"
2022-06-28 21:17
This is probably a better question for /r/artbusiness or perhaps /r/artistlounge. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.
That said, yeah. 3 years is a lot of time, although it's hard to give guarantees given that the individual brings a lot to the table in terms of what resources they use, how they spend their time, etc.
Uncomfortable in the post "how are artists selling their prints"
2022-06-28 21:16
Try asking this over on /r/artbusiness. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.
Uncomfortable in the post "Question about how uncomfortable is creating his lines, in photoshop, in his YouTube videos"
2022-06-27 13:16
Yes, it's a feature in Photoshop. If you click with the brush tool at one point, then shift clock at another, it'll draw a like between them. It does attempt to interpolate between the pressure at each point if you're using a stylus though so I often end up with lines that are thin on one end and thick on the other, which can be annoying at times, although I find doing a like in one direction and then the other can result in the line going from thick to thin to thick which can add some dynamism that can be interesting.
Uncomfortable in the post "How much time is too much time to spend on one 50% rule drawing?"
2022-06-27 13:12
The 50% is basically a minimum. You're welcome to spend.more than that on your own artwork. There's nothing wrong with taking 10+ hours on a piece. My longest was upwards of 40 hours.
Uncomfortable in the post "[Promptathon] Everything, a dragon submission."
2022-06-27 01:37
As the subreddit is restricted only to completed homework submissions and questions relating to course material (so that students have as good a chance as they can of getting eyes on their work/questions, which is already rather difficult), at this time we do not allow for anything else to be submitted.
While it would potentially make sense to allow promptathon work, I worry that it would also encourage others to submit non-promptathon work, resulting in more erroneous submissions having to be dealt with in the spam filter, so for now we're going to hold to that.
Of course, we have a dedicated channel on the drawabox discord chat server where you can share your drawings and discuss the promptathon, as well as a channel where any promptathon work submitted to the drawabox website is automatically shared. You may want to try one of those.
Alternatively, more general drawing subreddits like /r/drawing, /r/learnart and /r/idap would also be good choices.
Uncomfortable in the post "Please Critique - Took a break from the 250 Box Challenge. Drew this from a reference landscape drawing. Need to know where I stand please."
2022-06-27 01:34
Posts on this subreddit unfortunately do have to be directly related to the Drawabox lessons - either questions or homework submissions. It's fantastic that you're drawing outside of the course, and trying to adhere to the 50% rule, but your work for those endeavors are better submitted to other more general subreddits, like /r/learnart, /r/learntodraw, /r/drawing, and /r/idap.
That said, two things about the 50% rule:
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You said you drew this directly from reference - that would make it a study, and therefore part of the same 50% as Drawabox.
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While it's perfectly fine to ask for feedback on 50% rule work, keep in mind that the purpose is not to worry about the end result, where you stand, etc. Its primary purpose is just to play, not to be something you're supposed to learn or benefit from in any other way.
Uncomfortable in the post "I just started the 250 Box challenge, am i doing this right?"
2022-06-27 01:32
This subreddit doesn't allow single exercises or partial work, as explained here, and as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. For the subreddit, we're pushing students to post complete lesson work.
That said, you should keep two things in mind. Make sure you're not actively trying to force your vanishing points to infinity (which is what you're doing in trying to draw all your lines as being parallel on the page, with no noticeable convergence), and also make sure you're extending your lines away from the viewer. The box in the middle-right side of the page has its blue lines extending towards the viewer. You can read more about this in these notes and in these notes.
Uncomfortable in the post "Trying to work on human proportions and learning how to draw female figures- how did it turn out"
2022-06-27 01:30
Try asking this on /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.
Uncomfortable in the post "Yet another 50% rule question - can I do MORE?"
2022-06-26 14:28
Yes, you can do more.
Uncomfortable in the post "for courses, schoolism subscribetion or coursera ?(one of my latest art work , im interested in comic)"
2022-06-24 01:30
This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here. I'd recommend asking this over on /r/learnart or /r/artistlounge. That said, I feel compelled to also point out New Masters Academy - although fair warning, they sponsor Drawabox.com (which is also why we are able to offer a coupon code "DRAWABOX22" for 35% off the first billing cycle, whether you go monthly or annual).
I won't tell you if NMA is any good however, because you should absolutely not trust someone who has something to gain from having you sign up - so go ahead and ask over in those communities and see what other recommendations you'll get there.
Uncomfortable in the post "Are there any more websites like DrawABox that go after the fundamentals?"
2022-06-24 01:28
I think you're going to be better off asking this question over on /r/learnart, /r/learntodraw, or /r/artistlounge. Reason being, most students here are still tackling Drawabox, and so you're going to want to ask it in a community where you can get a wider variety of responses, from people who've tried a lot of other things.
Uncomfortable in the post "Imgur"
2022-06-24 01:28
It seems you've only submitted your first page of super imposed lines. This subreddit doesn't allow single exercises or partial work, as explained here, and as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. For the subreddit, we're pushing students to post complete lesson work.
Uncomfortable in the post "I dont understand how Im supposed to use the second vanishing point in the rotated boxes exercise, how am I supposed to know where they will end up?"
2022-06-22 23:21
Unfortunately that is not accurate. This exercise attempts to drive home the point that there are many vanishing points, one for every set of parallel lines. Spherical perspective still attempts to capture objects that align to a set grid (just as 3/2/1 point perspective do), while also accounting for lens distortion.
What we're doing here is considering the fact that the world does not exist on a perfect grid, with objects being at a wider variety of possible alignments.
Although I should clarify that it merely serves to make that point - not to actually help students improve in dealing with it. Once the point is made, here and in the organic perspective exercise that follows, we then explore handling a greater variety of vanishing points through the box challenge and onwards through the rest of the course.
Uncomfortable in the post "I dont understand how Im supposed to use the second vanishing point in the rotated boxes exercise, how am I supposed to know where they will end up?"
2022-06-22 21:48
Hah- it does seem like you've gotten your answer, though just to state it myself, the question OP is asking pertains to an exercise in the course that I created, which you'll find on drawabox.com. This subreddit as a whole is reserved for those working through the course (which itself started many years ago on this subreddit, before developing into its own website and community).
You can read more about that here.
Uncomfortable in the post "Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes (AKA: IT'S FINALLY DONE!!!)"
2022-06-22 13:13
You might need to try posting this again. It looks like you may have tried to make a "link" post, but then switched over to the text post side of things, which caused Reddit to ignore the url or images you may have provided, leaving only the title.
Uncomfortable in the post "I dont understand how Im supposed to use the second vanishing point in the rotated boxes exercise, how am I supposed to know where they will end up?"
2022-06-22 04:21
The key is not to worry about the vanishing points, but rather to focus on the neighbouring boxes/edges as demonstrated in this diagram.
Uncomfortable in the post "The "draw for fun/experimentation" portion of the 50/50 is pretty powerful by itself. Seriously, don't skip it!"
2022-06-21 03:30
Glad to see that you're jumping right into it! That said, we do have to keep this subreddit reserved specifically for questions and homework submissions related to the course. It would simply get too cluttered otherwise, and students who already have a tough time getting eyes on their work would be flooded out by those posting their own drawings.
Try posting these on /r/idap, /r/drawing, or another more general subreddit.
Uncomfortable in the post "Can someone point out the major or minor problem with this? just tried hard to draw this from imagination. which isn't ideal but still want to know what all am I missing?"
2022-06-20 20:25
Try asking this over on /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.
Uncomfortable in the post "Studying art books, the most effective way to learn from them"
2022-06-20 20:25
Try asking this over on /r/learnart or /r/artistlounge. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.
Uncomfortable in the post "Question about how credits work?"
2022-06-20 20:24
So this is probably something you'd ask either through:
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Patreon's messaging system
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Our support email (support@drawabox.com), ideally from the email associated with your account
as both of these would provide me with a way to pull up your account easily.
That said, there are two main things to keep in mind:
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You get access to your credits by connecting your Patreon to your Drawabox account in the account settings page - this is mentioned at the end of the sign-up process, and is also explained in a welcome message I send to all new patrons.
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As explained in Lesson 0, the official critique track requires you to start at Lesson 1, and does not permit you to move onto the next step until you have received your critique from me or one of my TAs, along with a completion status on that given submission.
You mentioned that you're at Lesson 3, but that you haven't submitted for official critique, which suggests that you went on ahead, or that you signed up later on. Students in that situation would be required to start over (although rather than having to redo the entire 250 box challenge, they would be asked to submit their completed box challenge plus 50 boxes done after getting their Lesson 1 work marked as complete. There is no option on the official critique track to submit later work without having had the prerequisites marked as complete, and the system itself would not allow you to do so.
I strongly urge you to go back through Lesson 0, especially this video which explains how the course should be used, and how the official critique system works.
Uncomfortable in the post "Gardners History of Art."
2022-06-20 05:58
This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here. Try posting this on /r/learnart or /r/artistlounge.
Uncomfortable in the post "Draw. From. Life! I cannot emphasize it enough!"
2022-06-20 04:09
This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.
Funnily enough, while this advice is still definitely good in most contexts, Drawabox is one course where it becomes a lot less impactful - reason being, we use an approach that forces students to break the objects they're studying down into simple forms, and using that information to build them back up on the page, which side-steps the usual "flattening" issues that come about from working from photos. You can read more about why it side-steps those issues in these notes here. We use this approach specifically to help develop students' spatial reasoning skills - which is all about understanding how the things we draw exist in 3D space, rather than just as marks on a flat page.
That said, you should still go ahead and post this over on /r/learnart, /r/learntodraw, or /r/artistlounge, as in those contexts I'm sure plenty of students would benefit from your advice.
Uncomfortable in the post "Need help with Vanishing point and horizon lines."
2022-06-19 20:17
Try asking this over on /r/learnart. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.
Uncomfortable in the post "Seriously confused about pen and arm position."
2022-06-19 18:42
It matters a lot less than you think. Since we focus on executing our marks with confidence, and avoid steering with our eyes, whether or not we can see the.mark through the entire trajectory isn't actually all that important. What matters more is that you allow your arm to maintain a consistent trajectory throughout the stroke.
Uncomfortable in the post "Where do I need to start ?"
2022-06-18 05:49
No need to apologize, just making sure you can get the answers you seek.
Uncomfortable in the post "Where do I need to start ?"
2022-06-18 05:43
This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here. While this may be of interest to you - it's a course that focuses on the core fundamentals of drawing, specifically confident markmaking and strong spatial reasoning skills, upon which most other representational drawing is built, you likely want a varied set of recommendations. I'd recommend asking this over on /r/learnart or /r/artistlounge instead.
Uncomfortable in the post "Guys, how long will it take to learn sketching? and where to start? Im into sketching like scenery and abstract things. Im not into portraits at all."
2022-06-18 05:42
I think you're going to want to ask this question over on /r/learnart or /r/artistlounge. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here. Drawabox is a course that focuses on teaching the core fundamentals of drawing, specifically confident markmaking and strong spatial reasoning skills - though based on your interest being in the abstract, it's hard to say how well those would apply. Asking in the communities I recommended however will at least get you a more varied set of responses, whereas the focus of this community is fairly narrow and specific.
Uncomfortable in the post "Where can i find an online library, where the complete catalogue of Goya's "disasters of war" and 'black paintings" can be dawnloaded in great quality. He is a huge inspiration and i want to them so by copying them, learn how to become a better artist.Thank you!!!"
2022-06-17 06:33
This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here. Generally I try to recommend a more suitable community for a given question or post, but in this case I'm unsure. You might ask over in /r/learnart or /r/artistlounge - while your post may not be suitable there either, they may have better recommendations on where you can ask.
Uncomfortable in the post "DrawABox equivalent for coloring and shading?"
2022-06-15 20:33
I think you're going to have more luck with this question in a community such as /r/learnart, /r/learntodraw, or /r/artistlounge. While your question is tangentially drawabox related (in that you're using it to describe what you're looking for), it's best to pose it to those who have experience with a very wide range of resources - whereas those here are more likely to still be working through Drawabox, and thus have less exposure to other materials.
Uncomfortable in the post "Do artists need to explain their work?"
2022-06-15 20:31
This question is much better suited to a more general community - I think /r/artistlounge would be a good fit. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.
That said, there's no singular purpose to art. Some people create art to express themselves, some create art to convey some message, emotion, or idea. Others still use it to speak out about something important. Many do all of the above.
But then there's the things we make that serve no purpose beyond just being fun to draw, or to get an entirely everyday thing down on the page.
And yet still, there's those of us who produce what others pay us to produce.
"Art" as a word is utterly meaningless. It tells us nothing about what a person is attempting to achieve, and it is that which determines whether or not they've done the thing correctly. It all comes down to one's intent.
And to that same point, I'd argue that anyone attempting to ascribe a singular criteria to all "art" is not someone you need to be giving any attention.
Uncomfortable in the post "If my goal is to replicate manga art style, which art fundamental would be best to start with? For characters"
2022-06-14 18:21
Try asking this over on /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here, so a more general subreddit would be better suited to your question.
I of course get that you're asking about the fundamentals on a subreddit called art fundamentals, but this community ended up developing into the Drawabox lessons, which focus on the core fundamentals of drawing regardless of what style or subject matter you eventually want to draw.
That said, this video from early on in the course may help provide you with some context, as it talks about the relationship between stylization and the fundamentals.
Uncomfortable in the post "How to Draw Overlap & Practice it well?"
2022-06-14 18:18
Try asking this over on /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here, so a more general subreddit would be better suited to your question.
Uncomfortable in the post "Quick question regarding cylinders: if the minor axis doesnt align when checking for errors, does that indicate that the plane is not square? Or did I just mess up the ellipse"
2022-06-14 15:54
It can technically mean either, but generally you are correct - the line extensions being off does suggest that the plane itself is not square in 3d space, and the purpose of the line extensions is to identify that so we can gradually adjust how we draw those boxes, building a greater sense of intuition as to how the box being drawn, relative to its orientation in 3d space, can impact its proportions in 3 dimensions.
That said, generally you'll want to do your best in aligning to the minor axis, leaving just the contact point lines to be off. This reduces the number of variables at play.
Uncomfortable in the post "Should I redo this part of Lesson 2 exercises before submitting to official critique? It was my first attempt, and I'm not satisfied how it looks. Maybe give it another shot?"
2022-06-13 18:19
Short answer is no, you should only complete the quantity of exercises assigned, and allow a third party - being the one critiquing you - to decide whether you require revisions.
Long answer is this video from Lesson 0: https://youtu.be/nBjTGvpd-q8
Uncomfortable in the post "What could i have done wrong?"
2022-06-13 12:23
Teeny tiny imperceptible mistakes will accumulate, and will manifest in the last corner you draw - which is generally the back corner. It is entirely normal, and nothing to worry about.
That said, for these kinds of things you want to look at the vanishing points - it's little discrepancies with the convergences that cause this sort of thing, but we're prone to focusing on the box itself, or the back corner specifically, as a sort of red herring.
Uncomfortable in the post "Is Artline Drawing System Pen count as fineliner?"
2022-06-12 17:40
Yep, those are fineliners. Although it's also worth mentioning that while 0.5mm is ideal, we allow anything within the range of 0.4-0.6.
Uncomfortable in the post "Not interested to became an artist"
2022-07-08 22:53
I actually do mention this in Lesson 0, both when talking about the tools and the 50% rule. You are encouraged to jump into digital media for the 50% rule, or really anything outside of doing the Drawabox homework itself.