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Hey folks. As many of you know, the last several months have been spent developing a community platform for the Drawabox website that would move all homework submissions (both free and for private/official critiques) onto the website itself, with ...
2019-12-27 22:56:14 +0000 UTC View PostTo get us started, Happy Canada Day for those of you celebrating it, and an early Happy Fourth of July to those of you in the United States.
There's a few bits of Drawabox news I wanted to report, including some changes to the responsibiliti...
2019-07-01 19:28:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Did one of my full demonstrations for a student today. This time, a donkey!
2019-05-04 20:06:47 +0000 UTC View PostFor those of you who don't have time to read this whole post, here's a summary of the changes:
Merry Christmas! As my gift to you, I've just completed a full rebuild of the Drawabox website. This includes superficial layout changes, as well as the content being organized into separate pages in order to be more easily digested - and most imp...
2018-12-26 13:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Just finished doing this demonstration for a student, figured it'd be helpful for everyone else as well.
2018-07-17 01:41:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Just finished doing a tiger head construction demo for a student. Figured you guys might benefit from it as well.
One of the most important things about head construction - and this goes for human heads as well - is seeing the various parts of the ...
2018-06-24 21:01:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Lice are indeed gross, but it was a good opportunity to demonstrate how to apply construction to organic subject matter, and what kind of things to look out for.
2018-03-26 03:52:44 +0000 UTC View PostDon't worry, Drawabox isn't closing, and I'm still doing critiques. But for the sake of my sanity as well as my growth as an artist, some aspects of how the patreon tiers are organized are changing. You can s...
2018-03-01 15:34:40 +0000 UTC View Post
So I made 7 more videos covering issues relating to lessons 3-5. Also, as I mentioned previously, I made the previously patreon-only videos (the no-audio video recordings of demos) accessible to everyone. It seems that everyone who spoke up in regard...
2018-01-02 00:40:51 +0000 UTC View Post
IT'S DEFINITELY NO LONGER FRIDAY. This week's challenge theme is...
Merchant Kitty - Khajit has wares, if you have coin. Cats have been sitting on their cute little butts for too long - put them to work! Alternatively: ...
2017-12-31 20:08:36 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Tuesday again, and this time I didn't forget! Here are your fresh new weekly theme ideas for the discord server design challenge. Vote on the ones you like most - and re...
2017-12-26 17:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Yule Tidings, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! In honour of the holiday season, I spent the last couple days recording a whopping 17 new videos - an intro video detailing how to approach the lessons, one for every exercise in lessons 1 and 2, and ...
2017-12-25 20:11:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The results are in! This week's theme is.. a tie! So we're going to two this week, and both are environment design prompts.
Theme 1: Alien Red Light District. Picture the seediest corner of an alien world, and design it. Think abou...
2017-12-23 02:28:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the delay! Got a couple of suggestions from patreon supporters this week, and mixed in a few of the runner ups from last week and a couple more new ones. Poll closes on Friday, at which point the week's theme will be announced.
Don't forg...
2017-12-20 17:42:26 +0000 UTC View Post
It's *still* Friday, so I'm not late. Here's next week's discord weekly challenge theme (join us over at #weekly-challenge https://discord.gg/hTPY5hb!).
Bottle it Up! 2017-12-16 01:26:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Like last week, here's the poll for the next weekly challenge theme. Didn't get any recommendations from you guys this time around, but I had some fun coming up with my own.
In case you're confused by this, we're picking a different theme to draw/d...
2017-12-13 00:21:06 +0000 UTC View Post
So it's Friday again, which means NEW WEEKLY CHALLENGE THEME on the #weekly-challenge (https://discord.gg/hTPY5hb) discord channel! This week we're doing:
Desig...
2017-12-08 18:03:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I think I'm probably a little late on this, but I'm still getting the hang of this. Here are the potential choices for the coming week's challenge theme. The winner poll will close on Friday, and the winner will be announced. The runner-ups who recei...
2017-12-06 00:36:33 +0000 UTC View Post
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we're doing weekly themed challenges now on the discord (in #weekly-challenge: https://discord.gg/hTPY5hb.
This week's theme is "Fantasify Yourse...
2017-12-01 22:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostSo! Many of you know of the discord server for drawabox. I've wanted to do this for a few weeks, but didn't get around to thinking through the logistics of it til now: Weekly challenges!
They will be largely design-focused, and will run from Friday...
2017-12-01 20:26:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The fear of failure is the greatest challenge anyone faces. Not just in learning how to draw, but rather in every facet of our lives. Many people are accustomed to feeling that failure is something terrible, to be abhorred and reviled. That's simply ...
2017-10-29 14:15:53 +0000 UTC View PostSo people have been asking this for a while, and eventually one patron by the name of Jasper decided to take things into his own hands and make his own. It's been done in the past to varying degrees of success, but I was very pleased with how it was ...
2017-10-14 19:10:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Some notes I put together while critiquing a student's homework today. Figured it might be valuable to the rest of you as well.
2017-05-28 17:38:57 +0000 UTC View PostJust wanted to give you guys a heads up that homework critiques will be somewhat more sporadic for the next couple weeks, with the them being more delayed mid-week. Rough deadlines at work are requiring me to work 12-13 hour days from Tuesday to Thur...
2017-05-24 13:37:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Drawing is full of challenges. At every turn, there's something new that is bound to frighten us, or make us hesitate. Something that really makes us realize how new we are to all of this, and how sometimes months, or even years of practice can feel ...
2017-04-23 15:56:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks - long time no talk. I've certainly been swamped at work, but I've managed to keep the homework submissions from overwhelming me during the rougher patches, and hopefully I've been able to give some more direct help to those among you who'v...
2017-04-11 16:54:48 +0000 UTC View Post
So along with covering the same principles I mention in my how to draw a box video, I introduce you guys to a somewhat more rigorous method of developing your sense of 3D space.
2016-12-12 02:57:31 +0000 UTC View Post
So I recently had the pleasure of launching my first title - that is, if you ignore the educational games aimed at toddlers that I worked in in my last job. Which we will ignore. Because "Baby Ha-ha Learns About the Seasons" will not go down as my fi...
2016-11-22 00:14:13 +0000 UTC View Post