So I'm not a complete beginner or an absolute intermediate. I've been drawing since childhood but yk I was one of those self taught kids who never really practiced fundamentals and did what felt right. I'm a digital artist too but I feel like I'm lacking in fundamentals. Especially anatomy and perspective. And idk where to begin with. I've forgotten how to draw most of the things too.

I'm relearning how to draw to improve both my traditional art and digital art. I feel like I'm better at digital art when it comes to making colored artworks but I draw everything on my phone currently so it's not really ideal to practice digital drawing rn. If you guys have any tips, advices or any books suggestions please let me know! I've posted some of my artworks below :>

I just want to know what do I need and how much time on average can I finish it in

Estoy en la caja #70, pero aun no entiendo que deberia de estar viendo a la hora de trazar mis lineas, volvi a ver el video del ejercicio pero aun asi es muy dificil fijarse en las lineas que ya tienes y hacer que vayan hacia el mismo punto de fuga, aveces por miedo a que converjan muy rapido terminan divergiendo

I know I’m supposed to just focus on drawing the shadows on an object to create a texture, but, this leaf has, like, no shadows at all. Some parts are darker than others, but I think that’s just a part of the leaf and not a shadow. So, I guess my questions are, how do I draw texture when there’s hardly any shadows or none at all and do I always have to focus on just the shadows? I guess my final question is, did I draw texture right on that leaf, did I draw it wrong, or am I just overthinking things?

I haven’t drawn ever since I got into painting in over 10 years and I’ve been considering getting back into drawing but I feel like I have lost touch with drawing people and need some advice on what type of exercises you guys recommend to getting back on track… thank you for anyone willing to send some ideas on getting back on track with things I haven’t been practicing like drawing people, bodies, faces, portioning out the body properly. I started practicing with simple shapes to get back the basic of drawing 3d like shapes to get the hang into it.

Did lesson one actually end up helping you like, at all? like did it genuinely help you and an artist?

Like does spending that entire first lesson drawing all those boxes, did is actually help you like, at all?

I ask because when I started drawing these exercises were never part of my learning, we just broke down figures into their basic shapes and then applied that to the type of art we wanted to learn.

Like I see so many "I finished lesson one" posts and I'm just like...oookay? but what did that teach you?

*Edit* Thankyou for all of your feedback on this! I send references to people and one I've consistently though of sending is Draw a box, but I've also seen so many here frustrated with it.

I will add it to my references for beginners. thankyou

I can draw a somewhat straight line especially if I use the 2 point method but whenever I try to apply my learnings I noticed I can't really eyeball a straight vertical/horizontal lines. It's always slanting instead of being straight. So I have to rely on a right angle ruler to check if my lines are straight or slanted and its such a pain cause it messes up the start of my boxes.

I want to be able to eyeball if my line is straight or if it's at an angle, are there exercises I can do?

Hi. After two months of battling my ADHD (and my laziness, haha), I finally managed to finish the lesson.

Please, I’d like to get some feedback and know whether I should continue or not. Thanks :D

So, since I've started learning to draw from 0. I've been watching Chommang's videos on how to draw and doing Drawabox at the same time.

Then, I'd simply draw things that I liked with references. I also noticed that I've become a lot more patient when drawing. Before I hated ghosting but now I do it all the time.

I know its a weird question. I am not ambidextrous, but I really want to have skills on bith my hand. I have been doing the lessosn with both hands (i do the lesson once with my right, and then take it again with my left), but it has made the journeg take teixe as long, and i dont know if its halting my progress; how should I approach this?

As the title suggests, i do not feel like I'm learning or I'm going to learn much 3d spatial awareness from constructing boxes on the paper using the Y method. The exercises overall feel like a roundabout way of practicing longer-than-usual ghosting between two points and adhering to above a certain standart of line quality.

Even if the result comes off as a decent looking 3D-ish box at almost no point of the construction phase that i feel like i am really using my spatial awareness or I'm really pushing my brain to think in 3d( compared to when i was learning the loomis method and applying it to references, which was very intensive), how the planes should be positioned regarding one-another. The method already gives you 3 vanishing points so all I'm left to do is to correctly guess the intersection points and mark down the back edges before lining.

This is not to say that I'm already a master in linework or ghosting , i oftentimes lose my patience and not ghost enough, or lose my ideal drawing posture and draw from elbow or the wrist, or subconsciously try to rush the process and "be done with" this day's 5 boxes, so to say. This last page definitely came off as the messiest one since a bit of demotivation-fueled autopilot mixed up with tryning to use both sides of the page with a oily pen.

To sum it up I'd like to change my approach to the exercise so I'm more cognitively active in the process and actually learning something about 3D rather than feeling like doing a really long warm-up.

Hello, my name is Erick, for a while I always wanted to learn to draw, I always enjoyed seeing and admiring the drawings of famous artists (especially manga artists), and web artists, and in the middle of this year 2026 I tried to start drawing, initially I searched on YouTube for videos on how I should begin, what the fundamentals of drawing are, and in what order to start.

Initially, I started with the foundation of the lines (but I didn't practice much), and then moving on to shapes, and after about a week just doing whatever I felt like, I ended up stopping and now I'm getting back into it.

So, I'd like some tips on what I should focus on, which fundamentals to prioritize, and a little help when I decide to post my potential drawings here. :)

Pls critique if I should move on or not

So started somewhat around 2 weeks back drawing absolute beginner, the school level drawings were basic and nothing anywhere near you call 'ART' but they were better compared to other kids in class and now I'm in late 20s I started practicing digital art on krita this is my progress, I want to draw semi realistic faces and original characters, if you see familiar faces some of them are traced but few like 3 4 maybe, others I'm trying with or without references mostly
I ant to know how should I approach learning drawing and getting better at it

Can you move through draw-a-box without critique, or is that against the rules? Is it a rule that you have to get critique or is it more of a strong recommendation?

I found the textures analysis sooo hard and the intersections just broke my brain but I had to remind myself "the boss said he expected us to fail, let's trust the process"

Lesson 2 was extremely satisfying I didn't know I could do that :)

I changed pens a few times because my first one broke, and then I got a ink pen.

Can I proceed to lesson 2/250 boxes challenge?

Am i ready for the 250 box challenge?

Thanks!

I've been drawing consistent-ish for about 6 months but I really want to start getting better now. I understand this is mainly a draw-a-box sub-reddit and I have started on that too (going through box perspective rn and its going pretty well) . But I was wondering if there were some well acclaimed courses, ytube playlists and/or books that taught the fundamentals like line form perspective? Also if there are better communities for questions like this can y'all please recommend them?