Drawabox Lesson 3: Drawing a Mushroom
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2024
- An excellent subject matter to draw that often goes overlooked are mushrooms. They're made up of really simple, organic forms that provide a great starting point to get into construction, while also working in some remarkably interesting textural challenges.
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Man, i have seen a Lot of inprovement, 4 months ago I was not even able to draw a box, thanks for your content.
I'm glad to hear that! Keep up the good work.
Agree
How is it going now ?
Thank you so much for posting these video, you deserve way more credit than what you've got
Haha, it's my pleasure.
When I finish your course I'm definitely going to make a donation. I learned so much from you over the past year. You gave me the tools to believe in my creative self. I'm attending art school this year as an adult student thanks to you.
I really love how things look on the construction state, like I right now don't care at all about detail.
I agree! There's a certain aesthetic appeal to constructional drawings.
I think till now, this is the most wholesome and fun exercise for me. Pretty great!
Simple forms (if that's how you call it) like this are fun to draw, thanks
Really cool!! I have learned a lot!! Thank you so much!! Keep on!!!
hi, i'm a great fan and practicing this everyday has helped me a lot, i have one question though, in earlier video's i saw that you used to have more lessons also covering the human form and my question was why did you remove those lessons?
And also: how should a beginner start learning to draw people?
or do you think that your course will give enough information on construction to immediately start practicing drawing people without added information, since people are animals and animals are covered in lesson 4?
I removed the figure drawing lessons a long time ago as they were not a topic I could cover well enough. Those lessons did not hold up to the standard I set for Drawabox, and instead I decided to focus on what I can cover more confidently, instead leaving other topics to those who are more focused on them. For example, you may want to take a look at the material on Stan Prokopenko's youtube channel, Proko.
Keep in mind that Drawabox is not about learning how to draw specific things. This lesson, along with all those after it, focus on the use of constructional drawing as an exercise, and it uses different subject matter to explore it. The end result is not for you to learn how to draw plants, insects, animals, etc. but rather to develop your spatial reasoning skills, which will be important to everything you wish to draw.
I'm working my way through the Plants lesson. Loving it so far. One thing I've noticed though: what happened to the audio quality? It sounds really muffled and bass-heavy compared to some of your previous videos. Did you get a new microphone or something?
My mic's been having some problems and I wasn't in a position to address them without missing my christmas deadline. I'm hoping to start going through videos and rerecording them one by one to generally increase the quality and make them more succinct, though I won't be starting that process for a bit. For now everyone will have to make do with what's here.
During the transition between the two steps in 16:57-17:00, you've added hatching lines along with the larger cast shadows. Are these hatching lines to give tone or do they act as smaller cast shadows?
Wanted to clarify as I thought we are discouraged from using tone.
You are correct, and I'm glad you asked. I slipped up there, and should not have used hatching lines there as I did. Part of it was because it is genuinely difficult and I'm prone to mistakes here and there, and part of it is that at the time this demo was released, the "no hatching" was something I'd *started* to push on students but hadn't set out quite as firmly (that came in about a year later). Since the lessons are continually evolving and being improved/honed to teach students more effectively based on what I'm seeing in their homework submissions, there are frequently going to be little contradictions until I'm able to set aside enough time to start rerecording a lot of the demonstrations.
@@Uncomfortable I see. Thank you for clarifying. And it may be easier to add a pinned comment with some corrections under a video, as you may develop your approach again after an updated video is posted 🤔
You are awesome!!!
I'm still having lots of trouble with my lines missing the mark. It's causing me to have to throw away papers because I consistently mess up the foundational structures a few times before I get the right ellipse/line/etc, which adds to the clutter on my page quite badly. Should I step away from these lessons and go back to lesson 1's ghosting exercises if my linework is distracting from the exercise's actual focus?
So there's two things to make clear here:
Firstly, if you make a mistake, do not scrap your drawing. Keep building upon it. The goal is not to match your reference perfectly - the reference is just a source of information which we pull from as we strive to build up something solid and three dimensional. Yes, we should take care to observe our reference carefully and invest plenty of time into the planning and preparation phases of our linework's execution, but once a mark goes down, you've committed to it and should continue going from there.
Secondly, warmups are an important part of maintaining and further developing the skills we encountered in previous lessons. This is explained in Lesson 0, so I'm assuming you're aware and have been keeping up with them - but in the case that you have not, that would certainly explain things. If that's the case, then be sure to get back into incorporating the exercises from the lessons you've completed into your regular warmup routine.
I still haven't done the cylinder and texture challenges yet - should I stop the lessons and complete those at this point?
Nope. The 250 cylinder challenge is recommended for after lesson 5, and the 25 texture challenge should be spread out over a longer period, done in parallel with other lessons rather than all at once (and is altogether optional since Drawabox's greater focus is on construction rather than detail).
@@Uncomfortable Alright, but I ask this because I'm having a lot of difficulty making my ellipses in proper form. They always turn out weirdly shaped or have incorrect sizing with width, height, angle with VP's and degree (basically everything). Thanks for the response.
@@DaDoubleDee I realized the same thing after lesson 2 and in Drawabox it says we can already tackle the 250 cylinder challenge after lesson 2 but preferably after lesson 5. So I tackled it before lesson 3 because it was very clear to me that I could not go into trying to draw plants without understanding better cylinders. In my experience its been of tremendous help having done the challenge before starting on lesson 3.
Twitch has poisoned by brain I can't hear "cap" without giggling
Mushrooms aren't plants!
Technically they aren't but they still have a plant-like form, which is all that matters for us artists
I was lookin' for this comment haha
@@Johanyohann They're fungi, right?
Why without minor axis?
To be completely honest, it's because I forgot to put it down for this demo. That you asked at all suggests to me that you've got a good understanding of the purpose of the minor axis - a lot of the students' work that I critique reflect that same understanding, where they'll include the minor axis even where I haven't. While it was a mistake on my part, it ended up being an interesting way to identify students who understand the use of the minor axis as a tool that serves a certain purpose (aligning ellipses to each other), and those who may be more inclined to repeat the steps through rote memorization.
at 8:10 im having troubles drawing the cap, like I know to add another ellipse above the branch like, then after that I dont know.
The cap is just another cylinder-like form. It's made up of ellipses that define its various cross-sections. Perhaps you're overthinking it?
I see maybe I am.
I get it now
Hi,
Can I use the drawing that I did follow this demo as one of the 3 plants that we can use in the 8 plants drawing that we need to submit in lesson 3?
As explained in the homework section for Lesson 3 - which your wording suggests you are aware of - you can use drawings done alongside demos in your homework submission as long as it constitutes less than half (which as you noted would be 3 of the 8 pages). As this is a demonstration, yes - of course you can use it.
@@Uncomfortable thank you for your reply :)
I thought maybe because it is not a flower it is suggested less, I just wanted to be sure.
although mushrooms are pretty smooth on top, given that I cook them a lot #immersionBreaking
Something i find really troublesome in these demos is the fact that you cleared up all the construction mess with digital tools, where's everyone going through the course cannot. This may give a false note to a person that they need to keep everything perfectly " clean & tidey " taking their line confidence away. For example, most beginners would probably be unable to make a clean, accurate and confident ellipse, amd they may shift focus to making an accurate ellipse rather then an confident ellipse
Being a free resource, we've been very limited in what we've been able to produce. When this and the content further into the course was made, we did not have access to the tools necessary to create proper live demos, so working digitally was pretty much our only option.
We're gradually overhauling the material and replacing older demos with new, hand-drawn ones, but it's an extremely slow process, as most of our time is taken up providing feedback to students.
That said, I don't really follow what you mean by "cleaned up all the construction mess with digital tools". You can clearly see the earlier constructional steps visible in the final result.
Hi! How can I show you what I did? Thank you :))
Because I have so many students, I only review the work of students who support drawabox on patreon (and who complete the lessons in order, waiting for me to mark them as complete in between). You can however get your work reviewed by the community either on the subreddit or the discord (both listed on the video description). You can also check the "Finished your homework? Get it Critiqued!" button in the table of contents of any of the drawabox lesson pages to see all the options for getting your stuff reviewed.
Im really trying to watch these videos, but they are too slow for me. Uncomfortable is one of the best creators with DrawAbox and his lessons. Still his videos are not the best, I’m so excited about these topics but I could fall asleep watching them.. unfortunately.
We are currently working through an effort to overhaul the videos - starting from back at Lesson 0/1 and making our way forward - specifically so we can make the videos more concise and easier to absorb. Of course, it's a slow process (and I'm continually fighting a hailstorm of homework submissions that takes up the majority of my time), so it'll be a while yet before we're able to update the content/demos for this lesson and beyond.
Don't forget that you can speed up the video if you feel it goes too slowly for you.
I like your nasally voice though. 22:05 - 22:25
I was actually unsure of his gender the first time I heard him, I was thinking could be a husky sounding woman or an ambiguous sounding man
yeah just one thing, mushrooms are not plants lol