Uncomfortable's Advice from /r/ArtFundamentals | uncomfortable's Comments, Page 7

Uncomfortable in the post "Where can I find "Draw-a-box approved" refillable fineliners?"

2022-06-11 15:53

So the thing about those metal-tipped technical pens is that by design they're meant to create extremely uniform lines with no variation in thickness. The fineliners we use in this course have more flexible plastic tips that allow them to create lines that vary more naturally, and help us develop more finesse in our pressure control.

So, for that reason, the rotring isograph would not be a good choice for what we're doing here.

Uncomfortable in the post "50-50 Rule Question"

2022-06-10 16:57

It's more when you're comfortable with deciding what it is you want to draw, then go finding the references that will help you in producing that specific goal, rather than finding a reference and allowing it to dictate the entirety of what it is you wish to draw.

References should only be tools - you define the goal you're working towards.

Uncomfortable in the post "Where can I find "Draw-a-box approved" refillable fineliners?"

2022-06-10 16:56

So there's one refillable fineliner that comes to mind - the Copic Multiliner SP. They have replaceable ink cartridges and replaceable nibs as well. The thing is though, while they're definitely less wasteful than regular pens, it still involves a fair bit of plastic being thrown away even when just replacing the nibs, and they can be rather costly up-front (though they become more cost-effective over time).

What would be ideal is a pen whose cartridge you can refill with bottled ink, but that's more fountain pen territory, which are considerably harder to use than fineliners.

In the long run we do want to produce our own refillable pens, but it's a very tricky (and expensive) project to bring to fruition, so it's something that's kind of on the back burner while we work on addressing more immediate needs - like right now, we've acquired a laser cutter and are working on producing our own ellipse guide sets that we can sell for vastly cheaper than the full sets that are currently available for over a hundred dollars.

Uncomfortable in the post "Been trying to learn to draw since I was 15 and still can't do the basics, can only copy"

2022-06-08 20:42

So to start, this is technically better suited to a more general community, such as /r/learnart, /r/learntodraw or even the more conversational ones like /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 the core fundamentals of drawing, and focuses in training students to break objects down into primitive and simple forms, then build them back up on the page. This sort of thing is the bedrock of drawing from your imagination - that doesn't strictly mean working without references, but in being able to use those references as tools - altering them as needed (rotating things, changing the camera angle, etc) and generally employing them as a source of information to be applied according to your own intention and requirements, to your own drawing.

That brings me to the point you need to hear: if you've spent your life practicing copying things perfectly from reference images, then that's what you've spent your life training yourself to do. I imagine you'll have developed very strong observational skills (which is certainly valuable), but you may well be suffering from having underdeveloped spatial reasoning skills, which is a common reason for students to feel locked into only replicating the images they work from.

Drawing is not a single monolithic skill - it's a collection of many skills, and it is entirely possible to train one a ton, and end up neglecting the others. This does not mean that you're not suited to drawing in the way that you want, just that you've taken some turns that took you in a different direction.

Fortunately, the observational skills you will have built up already are going to be extremely useful in the long run, so it's not as though your time has been wasted. You do, however, have other areas that need to be developed, and they will require a considerable investment of time as well.

Uncomfortable in the post "Lesson 1: Exercise 1 (Superimposed Lines)"

2022-06-08 17:02

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 "NEW TO /r/ARTFUNDAMENTALS? Don't know what Drawabox is? Read this first."

2022-06-08 04:04

That is correct. This is a course, where each lesson builds on the one before it, and where each lesson is designed to make it more streamlined to address certain sets of issues. If we permitted students to decide which lessons they wanted to submit, we'd end up having to revisit old concepts in lessons where they're not intended to be dealt with, making it more time consuming.

The official critique track is structured around simplifying the critique process in order to be able to offer it as cheaply as we do.

Be sure to go through all of Lesson 0 so you understand what this course is about, what it does and doesn't teach, and how it works, before signing up.

Uncomfortable in the post "NEW TO /r/ARTFUNDAMENTALS? Don't know what Drawabox is? Read this first."

2022-06-08 00:05

Lessons 1, 2, and the box/cylinder/wheel challenges cost 1 credit each. Lessons 3-7, and the optional chest and texture challenges cost 2 credits each.

I cannot guarantee that it will always remain as such, but these have been the prices for years and we do not have any plans to increase them at this time.

Uncomfortable in the post "Hello new here and I have a question"

2022-06-07 19:57

We generally encourage our students to use imgur, although it's not required. I explain the different options for submitting work, why we encourage the use of imgur (along with a quick demo of how it's used), and what you'd want to look for in an alternative if you'd rather not use imgur in this video from Lesson 0.

Uncomfortable in the post "How to establish a third vanishing point?"

2022-06-07 19:55

Vanishing points go to "infinity" only when the orientation of the edges it controls in 3D space align perpendicularly viewer's angle of sight - basically when those edges run across their field of view, not slanting towards or away from them through the depth of the scene.

By that definition, technically as soon as your object slants slightly on a certain axis, you're going to have to deal with a concrete vanishing point. That is at least what is "correct" - but there are plenty of situations where we choose to fudge the rules a bit, and force a situation like that into having infinite vanishing points when we're composing our own illustrations.

Therefore in practice there's no clear answer to your question - there's a grey area where we can apply one or two point perspective and still have it feel okay, but the further out we drift, and the more noticeable the slant away from that perfect alignment with the viewer becomes, the more distortion you're going to run into.

Uncomfortable in the post "Transitioning from Ink to Digital"

2022-06-07 19:51

My recommendation would be to use Drawabox for what it's designed to teach, and get comfortable using digital tools by using them for your 50% rule stuff - and if you have the time, you may want to find a course that specifically gets you comfortable with the software you're using.

It's important to keep in mind that each course is designed towards a certain purpose, or set of purposes. Drawabox for example is designed to teach a very specific set of skills - the use of one's arm for confident and purposeful markmaking, and one's brain's capacity for spatial reasoning. Both of these are important regardless of what tools you use, but the course itself does not teach the use of any particular tool. So, rather than going on to redo the drawabox exercises digitally, you'd be better off finding an actual course that is specifically designed to teach the software you want to use.

Rather than seeing drawing as a single "skill" that includes the use of the tools, the way we think about space, the way we use our body, etc. try to think of it as a set of different skills that come together.

Uncomfortable in the post "First day drawing ever, Jesus am I bad (table of ellipsies)"

2022-06-06 16:06

I'm glad you're enjoying my style of teaching!

Uncomfortable in the post "What is the most budget, but comfortable tablet for drawing?"

2022-06-06 16:05

Try asking this over on /r/learnart, /r/learntodraw, or /r/artistlounge. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.

Uncomfortable in the post "DRAWABOX 250 CYLINDER CHALLENGE. FEEDBACK IS APPRECIATED."

2022-06-06 16:03

Uncomfortable in the post "First day drawing ever, Jesus am I bad (table of ellipsies)"

2022-06-05 17:59

That's entirely understandable. I kind of accept it as something that'll happen every few days, and so I'm used to sending the same message. That said, this is addressed in this video from Lesson 0 (in terms of the different places students can get feedback, and how each individual option operates).

Uncomfortable in the post "Portrait Artist going Anime... How?"

2022-06-05 17:31

I'd recommend asking this over on a more general subreddit, like /r/learnart, /r/learntodraw, or /r/artistlounge. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here, and focuses on the core fundamentals of drawing without any stylistic considerations (although that concept about the fundamentals vs. stylistic choices is something I touch upon early in the course when framing what the course does/doesn't teach, which you can check out here if you're curious).

Uncomfortable in the post "First day drawing ever, Jesus am I bad (table of ellipsies)"

2022-06-05 17:29

For what it's worth, your start was rough but there's definitely a good bit of improvement over the set.

Uncomfortable in the post "Did I misinterpret "8 filled pages of plant drawings"?"

2022-06-04 15:15

I'm not sure where the other user who answered you got their information (in terms of the 1-3 per page), but it is unfortunately inaccurate on that specific front. Rather, I encourage students to focus on giving each individual drawing as much room as it individually requires of them, so that they're sure to give their brain and arm ample space to think through the spatial problems, and to engage their whole arm from the shoulder.

I find that the best approach to use here is to ensure that the first drawing on a given page is given what it needs - the page should not be pre-split into sections for your intended drawings, just put the first one down and draw it at a comfortable size. Only when that drawing is done should we assess whether there is enough room for another. If there is, we should certainly add it, and reassess once again. If there isn't, it's perfectly okay to have just one drawing on a given page as long as it is making full use of the space available to it.

Uncomfortable in the post "Fill Every Shadow with Black on Textures?"

2022-06-03 17:15

The crumpled paper is an introduction for students to work in intentionally stark shapes, either fully black or fully white with nothing in between. Pick a point at which anything darker than a given value will be represented as black, and anything lighter will be represented as white.

Uncomfortable in the post "Can I subscribe to the patreon for official critiques mid-way through?"

2022-06-02 17:23

Unfortunately it is a firm requirement, and while there's an exception regarding the 250 box challenge which I'll get into in a moment, submitting old work is generally not permitted. Because of the way each lesson builds upon what came before it, the course is designed that certain kinds of issues are highlighted in earlier lessons, where they're easier to address. If we jumped ahead to critiquing your Lesson 3 work, then there are issues that may come up that would be more difficult to diagnose and address in that later context.

The one exception is that if a student has previously completed the box challenge, we ask them to submit their existing boxes, plus 50 more done after getting Lesson 1 marked as complete with official critique. That way we're not requiring them to redo the whole thing, but rather still getting evidence that the challenge was completed in full, and something meaningful that we can provide feedback on that would not be likely to repeat the issues that would have already been called out in the previous critique.

If you do happen to have some of your box challenge work, then you can just redo what's missing, and present them as [this is what I did before] and [here's the rest which I've done anew].

Uncomfortable in the post "should i use a ruler for the 250 boxes challenge?"

2022-06-02 17:11

A ruler is only permitted when applying the line extensions. Your boxes should be drawn freehand, using the ghosting method.

Uncomfortable in the post "Taking notes"

2022-06-01 17:15

While I definitely want to discourage people writing all kinds of self-deprecating "NO THIS IS BAD" etc on their work, as far as the submissions go, the self critique we're discouraging is what students include in their actual submission comment when posting it.

We generally feel there's no expectation for us to read through every little note a student has written on their work, and so we understand that is entirely for them. So it's just the comment included with the submission that we're referring to.

Uncomfortable in the post "In the tutorial on rotated boxes, shouldn't the side view (90 degrees) be the one I drew below in light green? I get it, that the VP will shift towards the left, but the side view that is drawn in the tutorial - shouldn't it be more than 90 degrees?"

2022-05-31 17:17

You are technically correct, but being hyper-accurate here actually takes away from the purpose of those squares. The squares serve as a simple reminder of the full range of rotation we're trying to cover. I added them in a later iteration of this exercise because students tended to really minimize the rotations between their boxes without them.

So, yes - because the boxes are tapered, those side boxes would ostensibly be the way in which you drew them, but it would provide no real benefit in terms of the specific purpose of the exercise, while increasing its complexity by a bit.

Uncomfortable in the post "Nobody has critiqued my lesson 1 homework and it's been over a month, should I just move on with the course?"

2022-05-31 15:02

Have you had a chance to check out the critique-exchange program on our discord chat server?

Uncomfortable in the post "Drawabox anatomy style"

2022-05-30 17:41

Back in Lesson 0, I actually provide some suggestions for courses on New Masters Academy that can help a great deal. You can find them here (both in the video for that section and in the grey box below it).

The one that I personally would recommend is Steve Huston's Art Anatomy for Beginners, because it teaches in a way that is extremely similar to the manner I was taught when I took Analytical Figure Drawing with Kevin Chen at Concept Design Academy. The approach used there made an enormous difference for me, and paired very well with what I was learning at the time in another course, Dynamic Sketching (which became one of the major foundations for what Drawabox is today).

That said, since this subreddit is reserved for questions and homework submissions relating directly to the Drawabox course, I'd recommend that you ask this question in a more general subreddit where the people there will have been exposed to a greater variety of resources, and thus will have more varied recommendations. You can try over on /r/learnart, /r/learntodraw, and /r/artistlounge.

Uncomfortable in the post "I just did 250 box challenge first page, am I doing it right?"

2022-05-29 21:57

I will mention this though - 3 and 4 have some lines extended in the wrong direction. You can read more about this here and here.

Uncomfortable in the post "Should i change my drawing tablet?"

2022-05-29 21:56

My honest answer is a big yes. You do not have to pick up the latest and greatest in wacom tech (xp-pen and huion both have tablets that are comparable for far cheaper, and I have a couple I still have yet to properly test/review, though I hope to get to that eventually for my youtube channel) but if you check out Brad Colbow's channel he pretty much tests everything under the sun very thoroughly and gives a good breakdown on what's worth your money.

The thing is, you absolutely can draw from your shoulder for marks of any size, but that doesn't mean it's easy - and when you're still getting used to drawing from your shoulder as a concept, it certainly doesn't help to have additional hurdles to deal with.

Personally, back when I started, I did so with a teeny tiny, second-hand 4"x5" Wacom Graphire 2, which is actually smaller than the smalls that are available now. A couple years later I upgraded to a 6"x8" Wacom Intuos 3, then later an Intuos 4 Large, an Intuos 5 Medium, and an Intuos Pro Medium (once they decided to make their naming schemes super confusing, but basically prior to that point all Intuos tablets were basically Intuos Pros).

I found that the change from a small size to a medium size to be night and day, while switching to a medium to a large (and more importantly, back to a medium later on) didn't really make a noticeable difference. Furthermore, when I started dating my girlfriend, I bought her an Intuos Pro Medium to upgrade from her Intuos Small, and it definitely made a big different for her, reducing her strain and generally making drawing much more comfortable. As a whole it made it clear that while the tools certainly don't make the artist, there are definitely things that can add further barriers, and that small size tablet is definitely one of them.

So! Save up your money, but don't jump straight to Wacom. Go for XP-Pen or Huion instead.

Uncomfortable in the post "What are your recommendations to help a beginner learn the fundamentals?"

2022-05-29 21:48

So despite the name of this subreddit, you're probably going to want to ask this in a more generalized subreddit, like /r/learnart, /r/learntodraw or /r/artistlounge. Reason being, as explained here this subreddit ended up focusing on teaching the "core" fundamentals of drawing (which is basically a narrower subset) and spun off into the lessons on drawabox.com, with the subreddit becoming a supporting community.

While you may certainly want to take a look at drawabox.com, you're going to want to get a more varied set of answers to your question, and the communities I recommended will be better suited to that.

Uncomfortable in the post "Duomo di Millani door,Pencil drawing, by me, 2022"

2022-05-28 19:58

Try posting this on /r/art or /r/drawing instead, and be sure to check the subreddit rules/submission guidelines before submitting to any community. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, and is not intended as a place for people to share their general work.

Uncomfortable in the post "Anatomy resource for the limits of how far limbs can turn, rotate, bend?"

2022-05-28 19:45

I think this question may be better suited to a more general art subreddit, like /r/learnart or /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 complex topics such as figure drawing or anatomy.

Uncomfortable in the post "NEW TO /r/ARTFUNDAMENTALS? Don't know what Drawabox is? Read this first."

2022-05-28 19:39

It really depends on what you mean by 'casually'. Of course, you're welcome to use the resources here in whatever way you wish - there are plenty of exercises, explanations, etc. which can be useful piecemeal, but the course itself is designed to be tackled in a particular order, particular quantities, and in a particular fashion, and with feedback between the lessons.

Our students vary quite a bit - some of them only have a bit of time to commit each day or each week, while others have a ton more time - but the course itself has no deadlines. The only requirement is that you pace yourself such that you give each and every exercise, every form you construct, every shape you draw, and every mark you put down as much time as you need to execute it to the best of your ability. This means that if an exercise or drawing demands several hours from you, but you can only manage to give it an hour every few days, then it simply means you're going to be spreading it across multiple days.

I wouldn't consider that to be "casual" though, as it falls entirely within the normal way in which one can work through this course. And, of course, by the requirements set out early on in Lesson 0 (like the 50% rule), we stress the importance of students not putting all of their drawing time into this course alone - so in that sense, if you're giving one day a week to Drawabox and spending the rest of your time on your own drawings, on other courses, etc. then that also is simply going through the course as designed, rather than doing it casually.

What I would consider to be casual would be picking through and grabbing the exercises that interest you, or the topics that feel like they're relevant to what you're interested in. And while no one's going to stop you from doing that, it's not a great use of the material, in that everything in this course is designed to work together to tackle a very limited set of problems - to help students develop more confident markmaking, and most importantly, to develop students' spatial reasoning skills.

In that sense, if you're say interested in animals, and specifically drawing animals, and that's what you want to work on, jumping straight to Lesson 5 would not be a great idea, as Lesson 5 despite having animals in the title, is not about drawing animals. It's about using animals as a lens through which to look at the same core spatial reasoning problems. There are definitely much better courses and resources on individual topics to that effect.

Uncomfortable in the post "USA import ban on certain Sable/Weasel hair?"

2022-05-27 15:53

This question might be better suited to /r/learnart, or another more general subreddit. This one is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.

Uncomfortable in the post "What course should I take first? (Realistic vs Comic-like)"

2022-05-26 21:17

This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here. Try asking this over on /r/learnart instead, as that community is better suited to general questions and advice.

Uncomfortable in the post "Well then I am scared but my confidence had kicked in and I decided to post my drawings so far to be reviewed yes they are upside down so please try rotating them, Other than that I also made a mistake of using the same line pattern instead of forming new ones"

2022-05-26 20:34

My pleasure. Thank you for the kind words!

Uncomfortable in the post "I cut up a paper towel tube to make a model for drawing cylinders. It's not perfect, but it's been very helpful"

2022-05-26 19:25

We may be talking past each other a bit here, resulting in some miscommunication. Here's what I mentioned in my original comment to the student.

I do hope you're only using this as a general reference/reminder of how those ellipses on either end work, and not attempting to draw it from observation.

What you're describing, in terms of being uncertain of how the minor axis would work, looking at the object, then going back to drawing his own cylinder would still just be using that tube as a sort of reference - not a direct model to draw purely from observation.

What I merely cautioned him against was setting up the tube as though it were a still-life, and replicating it like that, which is not what the exercise instructs.

Uncomfortable in the post "Super Imposed Lines, Ghosted Lines and Ghosted panels"

2022-05-26 17:41

Uncomfortable in the post "I cut up a paper towel tube to make a model for drawing cylinders. It's not perfect, but it's been very helpful"

2022-05-26 17:38

Pure observational drawing - that is, drawing based on what we see rather than what we understand - especially when done from live objects rather than photographs, can absolutely help contribute to the development of one's spatial reasoning skills. But to say that because this is the case, it does so at the same level, with the same effectiveness, as the exercises we use here that target the development of those spatial reasoning skills would not be accurate.

Basically, someone can absolutely learn from observing a physical cylinder, moving it around and whatnot, but this exercise puts far greater demands on developing their understanding of how that 3D space works, and it is designed with that intent in mind by stripping away the observational part and focusing only on having students build cylinders in a variety of orientations based entirely on their understanding of the mechanics of those cylinders.

So, it would also be fair to say that the exercise as it is designed would do nothing to improve observational skills, whereas working off this kind of a physical prop for every individual cylinder in the challenge would be beneficial in that regard. But again - that's not the goal for this exercise, and so we've stripped other points away in order to focus entirely on one thing, which in turn exists within the context of the larger overall course.

Uncomfortable in the post "why i cant see the text"

2022-05-25 23:35

It might be a cache issue. Try clearing your browser's cache and refresh the page - that may help. Also, which browser are you using? I have heard of people having this issue, but it was always with Firefox for some reason.

Uncomfortable in the post "Well then I am scared but my confidence had kicked in and I decided to post my drawings so far to be reviewed yes they are upside down so please try rotating them, Other than that I also made a mistake of using the same line pattern instead of forming new ones"

2022-05-25 20:01

Outside of the official critique, students are free to make whatever decisions they wish in how they use the materials, given that they have read through/listened to/watched the explanations as to the reasoning behind the recommendations.

For official (paid) critique, students can use ballpoint for Lesson 1 and the box challenge if they are as yet unable to acquire fineliners. They are also recommended for Lessons 6 and 7. For Lessons 3-5 however, fineliners are mandatory - but again, for official critique only.

Uncomfortable in the post "Well then I am scared but my confidence had kicked in and I decided to post my drawings so far to be reviewed yes they are upside down so please try rotating them, Other than that I also made a mistake of using the same line pattern instead of forming new ones"

2022-05-24 22:34

It's great that you've worked up the courage to share your work - but unfortunately, you do actually have to submit all your work together, as this subreddit requires complete submissions of a given lesson's homework, as explained here. This is also mentioned in the Lesson 0 video on Getting the Most out of Drawabox.

Feel free to post your work again, but be sure to include all of the work from Lesson 1. Alternatively if you're more interested in just receiving feedback on a few pages, partial work is more than welcome over on our Discord chat server, where each lesson has a separate channel dedicated to it.

Uncomfortable in the post "Upcoming digital artwork. More to come!"

2022-05-24 17:44

Please be sure to check the rules of any subreddit before sharing your content, to ensure that it is an appropriate place for it.

Uncomfortable in the post "I cut up a paper towel tube to make a model for drawing cylinders. It's not perfect, but it's been very helpful"

2022-05-24 17:43

No special reason. Needed a name when I was signing up for Reddit back in 2010, and I ended up using the same name when creating my YouTube channel.

Uncomfortable in the post "I cut up a paper towel tube to make a model for drawing cylinders. It's not perfect, but it's been very helpful"

2022-05-24 00:55

Very neat! Though I do hope you're only using this as a general reference/reminder of how those ellipses on either end work, and not attempting to draw it from observation. Doing so would alter the nature of the exercise, taking it from being a matter of solving a spatial reasoning puzzle, to an observational study.

Also, I should take this opportunity to mention that:

The assignment section mentions that you should be experimenting with foreshortening a great deal (obviously I can only see a few here but I get the feeling that you're drawing them all in that manner)
Also, if what you're doing there is intentionally forcing the vanishing point to infinity, that's technically incorrect. We don't control where the vanishing point goes - we control how the form itself is oriented in space, which controls how its edges are oriented in space, and that controls where the vanishing point for each set of parallel edges ought to be. Thus, we cannot force a vanishing point to be at infinity, whilst continuing to freely rotate the cylinder as the challenge requires. Instead, a vanishing point at infinity would tell us that the side edges are all running perpendicular to the viewer's angle of sight - basically not slanting towards or away from us through the depth of the scene. Of course since the cylinders we're drawing in this challenge would all be rotating freely and randomly in space, the chances of that happening are so slim that we may as well ignore it entirely, and always include some convergence to our lines.

Uncomfortable in the post "Dnd art"

2022-05-22 18:16

This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as mentioned in the subreddit rules and expanded upon in this sticky thread.

Try posting this over on /r/artcommissions, or browse through the posts there. For example, this one seems to be up your alley.

Uncomfortable in the post "Different facial features going along with two different tutorials"

2022-05-20 02:45

Try posting 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 "NEW TO /r/ARTFUNDAMENTALS? Don't know what Drawabox is? Read this first."

2022-05-19 17:36

I'm glad Lesson 0 was beneficial to you. Despite containing no technical information, I still strongly believe it is the most important part of the course.

Uncomfortable in the post "Hello Irshad and others fellow artist. due to my busy 3D Schedule.i am a 3d artist. i am only giving atleast 45 minutes - 1hour daily to this Course. is it enough. i am on lesson 2 Disections exercise and its been more then 2 months. it took me 21 days to finish 250 box challenge. am i going the ok?"

2022-05-19 17:36

Your pacing, based on what you've described, is entirely normal, so you have nothing to worry about there. Keep pushing forwards and focusing on executing the work to the best of your current ability. Also, if you're further concerned about your pacing, you can take a look at ScyllaStew's YouTube channel, where she posts full, realtime recordings from streams in which she's worked through all of Lessons 1 and 2. They serve as good examples of someone pacing themselves well, and can help students come to terms with the fact that this stuff just takes a long time - and that there's no such thing as "going too slowly".

As a side note, I will mention that I'd prefer you not to use my real name in contexts where I myself do not.

Uncomfortable in the post "Lesson 3 question"

2022-05-18 18:01

You should use reference when adding edge detail/texture, though you are not required to use it for the first two steps where we establish the initial basic structure of the given leaf. That said, you can also choose to use reference for this as well.

Uncomfortable in the post "Should i improve more before going to the 250 box challenge?"

2022-05-17 14:47

This subreddit doesn't allow single exercises or partial work, as explained here. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server though, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. For the subreddit, we're pushing students to post complete lesson work.

Also, it can help in terms of photo quality to take a picture under daylight (whether outside or coming in through a window), even with a relatively cheap camera. Lighting makes all the difference.

Uncomfortable in the post "Time management and the 50/50 question"

2022-05-17 14:44

Yup, that's perfectly fine. No harm in having a day for studies and a day for play - as long as you maintain a balance.

Uncomfortable in the post "I was planning to give a lot more detail to it, then got bored of it. here I present the god of dept,"USRA". from my recent fav web toon- reincarnation of the suicidal battle god"

2022-05-16 18:26

Very cool, but you should check the submission guidelines for any given community before sharing your work there. This subreddit is reserved for those working through the lessons on drawabox.com, as explained here.

Try posting this on /r/drawing or /r/digitalart instead.

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