should i start with this curse or the head curse?

I notice you said to make the lines parallel for the boxes instead of converging. Is this because figures aren't usually in an intense enough perspective for the converging of the edges to factor in? Thanks for everything! Love your stuff.

I used your exercises to warmup before my drawing session today and even though I've been drawing for a while it really helped me dial in my control. This made me remember to resort back to good habits to make better progress.

if you also sculpt in 3d, can you apply this exercise by practicing modeling the forms?

A thing i've sort of been struggling with as a beginner is that I can see the mistake i've made. Crooked lines,wobbly circles and I recognize that. But how do I correct the behavior? How do you become more consistent with intention? I feel like the usual response is "just draw more" but it feels hard to keep going when everything looks "bad". Do you have any pointers Michael?

My Major Take-Aways: Thoughts on Boxes - Boxes are inevitable. Learn to love boxes.  (I have. Thank you drawabox) - let go of 'perfection' seeking, it will hold you back. (Fact) - practicing these fundamentals slows you way way down now so that later, you can go way way faster at the things you’ve practiced and understood (uncomfortable fact for most people) - ghost a few lines before applying pressure: you are practicing the motions and building muscle memory. Rotate the page if you need to but get comfortable pulling/pushing/throwing a line at a comfortable angle Remember to critique your practice afterwards. For example:  - There is wobble in that one, move a bit faster to correct;  - you have a tendency to hook the lines at the end. Draw from the shoulder and draw through when you remove the pen from the page; - Practice boxes in 1 and 2 pt before trying 3 point: with fewer VPs, can focus on practicing gauging the angles to one Thoughts on Cylinders - Ellipses with straights: - Start with ellipse and make sure width is fixed.  - Copy forward visible edge to the bottom visible edge to keep the form convincing - Toothpaste tub-ification: Don’t foreshorten too much without ensuring that bottom forward edge of the base isn’t just a little “C” curve. Otherwise you end up with tapered toothpaste tube, and not a cylinder. and not a figure either. - To show depth, when rotating forward, widen the minor-axis of the top face, and mirror this edge shape to the bottom, but scaled down. This curvature is essential to keeping volume  NB: The minor axis, when an ellipse is drawn correctly, gives the direction of the perpendicular to the face of the ellipse My sketchbook is full of pages where I fill in the spaces around other exercises with ellipses and circles practicing size, degree, and control. Often around other drawings that weren’t successful as a drawing.  I highly recommend DRAWABOX for anyone who wants a hardcore bootcamp on everything this 20 minute video talks about, but over 7 lessons and several challenges that will indeed challenge everything you know about line and drawing, especially boxes, construction, and form intersections

Great warm up activities! I need the practice. Just an observation, with ellipses, I find depending on where i start on the long end of the curve, either the middle, or “top,” or “bottom,” my ellipse will tend to have a repeatable distortion, either pinched at end, the top, or even the middle. Interesting to try starting the shapes in different locations to see what your proclivity. Thx!