I'm entirely convinced that people here recommend drawabox just to get /beg/s to quit drawing because of how boring and tedious the course is, giving them the false idea that all art is that mind-numbing.Like look at this shit bro, this does nothing for you while being extremely annoying to do. At the very least, if someone is insistent on drawabox, they should have at least 6 months of drawing behind them, but then the course would be useless and redundant anyway
>>7859459Its snake oil. Bullshit sold to gullible beginners. Ive NEVER heard an industry professional recommend it. Practicing line quality and perspective? You can do that by drawing anything you want.
>>7859459Peter Han's Dynamic Sketching is better. Better teacher, feels like he isn't wasting your time, and something about his energy/encouragement really makes you want to put in the work. He also cements that he doesn't mean for you to be perfect, the point of the course is for you to become aware of these exercises and take/leave of them as you want. Like for me, his Week 1, I feel I get enough mileage with ellipses because I always draw them before I draw anything else in the figure. But my lines sucked so I practice(d) that and now my lines feel a little better.
The only good part of it is the beginning where you learn to draw with your arm and magic perspective. Beyond that, you're much better off using some program to rotate a cube in 3d and copying it a bunch of times
>>7859464>magic perspectiveBasic perspective* Also he takes way too long to explain everything, making the whole thing even more boring. He simultaneously expects the viewer to be braindead while over explaining stuff and acknowledging it's stupid that he is Jeets are genuinely the worst thing to exist on this planet
How many DaB threads do we need? Can't you faggots just post art for critique
>>7859459all art is tedious and boringi have more fun when i'm drawing random schizo shit than when i do studies.
>>7859459I get the feeling Mr Karim only made drawabox to make back some griftbux from poor helpless /begs/ after going to art school to become a "concept artist" and realizing it was a complete waste because he's a talentless hack. Seriously, what drives someone with such little imagination to not only pursue art, but start """teaching""" it to people?
This board should be called /db/ since that's like 80% of the thread topics.
>>7859459no. the reason we use boxes is to anchor what you are drawing to a perspective plane to achieve depth. without this, your vanishing points go in different direction and the brain becomes confused about what it is seeing. boxes also simplify the placement of things relative to each other as well as allow you to feel out proportions before you commit to drawing an arm for 40 minutes only to realize its' too big or small or the proportions of what you are drawing is fucked.ie. it's easier to draw a fucking box than it is to draw a mona lisa for 14 months only to realize it was fucked from the get go.
>>7859459You're correct, but there's more. Drawabox is designed to keep you hooked and coming back, maybe in the hope you pony up money because of sunk cost time spent. That's how he makes money.Courses and online art schools are all made to be sold for massive profits. They cost literally nothing but the pens and paper, or if it's digital it's close to 0. They are designed to be bloated in order to sell for an absorbent amount.The only two things you'll need is ctrl+paint and art books (Bridgman, Hampton, Peter Han, etc.)It's that easy.
>>7859459>waaaaaahhhhh I did a course and nothing else and got boredYou're supposed to draw what you want after you finish your homework.
>>7861459It's like teleporting to the gym, exercising, and then teleporting to your bed and doing absolutely nothing else with your entire day because "you have to perfect your body before you move how you want"
>>7861440>Recommends ctrl+paint and their pay walled videos>Recommends Bridgman and Hampton, two guys with books that are not only boring, but vague as hell with their explanations. Copyfags like you are the real /beg/ trap on /ic/.
>>7860324IMO the reason we get so many threads is because Drawabox proponents are rather sensitive to critiques.>>7861459The 50/50 rule isnt particularly useful, since the very early lessons arent particularly useful to approach drawing things of your interest.If for example you took a drawin 101 class, the things like drawing from observation, measuring, values etc... are instantly appliable since you can always use the new observational drawing techniques to study art you like, or to draw around you.Theres no need to go full retard about form either, simply showing how you could draw the 4 basic shapes and then simply telling the student to go out and draw box like objects (televisions, phones, drawers) cylinder like objects (vases, arms to an extent etc) for a long time should be enough without the need for [arbitrary number] challenge.And another counterpoint, the author seems to imply that the only way to get good is to do exercises you absolutely hate for half of your time and then drawing what you enjoy for the another half of the time, thats just nonsense. you should just draw what you want and study things directly related to whatever is it youre trying to make. If you are a wagie and you only have 1 hour to draw, are you really using half of your free time to do something you absolutely hate?
>>7861600>Drawabox proponentsWhere are these people?These are just permabeg circlejerk threads anon. Every one of these threads devolves into "200 box brown nigger person look at bad art heckin kekerino my fellow redditors please updoot my performative racism".
>>7861604Fair. Cant say youre wrong, but on reddit and youtube you can find these guys and they wont accept any form of criticism to the course.My main frustration is that they dont seem to understand the difference of something being challeging but engaging vs Torture (Op's pic)
>>7861611That's because they're all capital P Permabegs. They don't like drawing, none of it is engaging for them. They just want to will giantboobanimegirl onto paper without putting in the effort and blame everyone but themselves for not being able to do so.
Draw a box is only good for getting criticism on basic perspective and form. If you doing anything beyond 0-1 lessons then yeah you will be a perma beg. Its suggested because its free, you get a course with community feedback. Which people on ic love to complain about but have only offered money alternatives. I am sure if a better form and perspective course that was free and easily found was offered that it would be suggested instead. Also>>7859461Hozure a riot artist suggest DAB in his own discord, he is the standard for industry. You should not be talking out of your ass. >>7859459That's perma beg mentality there, you don't have to use DAB but you don't just learn how to do perspective form by drawing shitty animu 3/4 heads. There are specific fundamentals you need direction on and both of those separates why some artists symbol draw and why other people don't. If people understood it intitutively we wouldn't see many perma begs or people hard stuck int. Perspective and form courses are boring. I have yet to see a fun one. If you can't sit down and do basics of those fundies then just literally just do 10 minutes of it a day if you are incaptable of sitting. Any new artists or people can't draw, advice I give for people who think like this is, art isn't gonna be all fun. There is technical shit you have to learn and it will be boring. What you find boring will be diff from other people but that is part of the proccess of drawing and painting. There are people who hate rendering but like end result. People who hate studying value because its boring but benefit from it. If you wanted all fun hobby, quit art now. It's very rare to enjoy entirity of art. People quit art regardless if they do DAB because it gets harder, if you don't want to do it at the boring parts then good luck getting to level you wish to. It's why "Just draw" is even a saying. People who just can't stand the boring parts stop drawing due to it regardless what that boring thing is.
