Drawabox Lesson 0, Part 2: What are the FUNDAMENTALS?

Every artist I've followed in order to learn from them has gone on about the fundamentals. Sounds like this course has a specific outlook on what those fundamentals are, which is nice.

The best assignment I got in college to help in developing my watercolor painting style was to take a piece of artwork that we admire. In my case it was William Holman Hunts “The Awakening Conscience.” Then paint it 15 different ways. From color, paint type, amount of water, medium, and varies paper we got to explore the media as itself. It was the pivot point on how I handle my own painting forward.

I just started drawing and I’m feeling very inspired (no matter how bad my drawings are😂)I’m still having trouble drawing circles and squares but I hope I can get good enough to draw some of my favorite berserk moments tho I understand it’ll take years but I’m willing to put the time in I’m hoping I can build a good foundation with this

The entire intro had me literally screaming "THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING." If I had a nickel every time I asked an artist friend how I should go about learning how to draw and they responded with "Just practice lol", I swear.

This hits close to home. Around five years ago, when I wanted to start drawing, most of the advice I got was "draw quick figures every day you'll get good eventually". That never got me anywhere and eventually, I quit. Yesterday, I was digging through my old stuff while cleaning and found my sketchbook full of horrible figures, and that reignited my will to learn to draw, the right way (or rather ONE way that has been followed successfully by many people). Who cares if it takes me six months, a year, two years to learn the basics? It's better than giving up again and quitting for another five.

As uncomfortable said, taking a course on perspective specificly can be very beneficial whilst also doing drawabox. I'd recommend Scott robertsons book "How to draw" its the most comprehensive guide on perspective thats available today and by the time you complete it you can pretty much draw anything you want in perfect perspective. However it gets VERY difficult in the later chapters, especially for beginners so it would probably be best to start the book around the halfway point of drawabox, when you have a good enough grasp on perspective and forms, how to draw can arguably be viewed as the natural progression from drawabox, especially towards the end of it but the two learning paths compliment each other extremely well and improvement in one will equal some level of improvement in the other.

I thank you for making this free. I'm a beginner but i seem to be stuck hopefully this will broaden my horizon.

I decided to start drawing again from scratch. Unfortunately, I dropped out of several drawing courses that I found too complicated for the beginner that I am. This is a message to myself to leave a trace of my passage and of the future artist I'm going to be. I intend to come back here once the 7 lessons are over.

Finally after 2 weeks of trying to learn art I found the starting line, I've studied up alot on it and practiced even more... but it didn't even occur to me that I didn't actually know what the fundamentals of drawing were, I like your explanation on it thanks for making these, ill do my best to take my time with each lesson and get really good at whatever it's about so I can improve more in the future.

Lesssgoo!!! gonna start this course I'm so excited<3

Not the FUNCTION METAPHOR lmaoo I was trying to get away from math! :')

That joke about style made my laugh. Well done! And thanks for your hard work

Thank you for this I got so annoyed when people told me to go practice the fundementals

mi camino empieza hoy, thanks

absolutely loved the model of style being a function. I think the first derivative is taste since it changes as you grow.

Yes, it was funny 🤣 didn't expect that cameo here!

Has anyone found themselves searching for Control + Z buttons on the paper they are drawing on? Happened to me loads. Where is E to erase? Drawing on paper is fun and I forgot how much fun it is. 👍🏽🔥🔥🔥

I'm restarting drawabox from 0 again hope this time i won't end up procastinating

Im very motivated to draw now, especially due to that BEAUTIFUL Jojo style drawing.

so important to learn