Who is Drawabox for?

The concepts listed above are important for anyone interested in representational drawing, and many of them apply to abstract artists as well (though this is obviously not our focus here).

The key thing to remember is that no matter what style you ultimately are interested in drawing these concepts are still extremely relevant. Whether you're interested in drawing anime/manga, hyper-realism, or anything in between, these are the principles they all share.

Overall, I've written these lessons to target two specific groups:

Complete Beginners . In a lot of ways, I've found complete beginners to be the easiest to teach, given that with no preconceptions or half-understanding of concepts, they're more likely to just follow the instructions as they're written. They tend to progress at a more consistent pace, though obviously having less overall experience with drawing simply means that they may not necessarily reach the same heights by the time they get to the end of the course. They still show considerable growth and leave well equipped to continue on their journey.

Self-Taught Artists. I was in this group myself. Self-taught artists tend to have a more sporadic skillset, with an underlying foundation fraught with holes and misunderstanding, but with a lot of overall mileage/experience under their belts. Drawabox can work wonders to help fill those holes and really solidify one's grasp of the basic foundational concepts, and so such students can see improvements by considerable leaps and bounds. That said, they also bring a lot of baggage with them, and are susceptible to mixing the things they think they know in with the instructions, causing them to become sidetracked or distracted. Following the instructions simply becomes all the more important when you've already got a fair bit of experience preceding you.

All in all, everyone would benefit from going back to the basics and refining their ability to capture the illusion of solid form and weight, but these two groups are the main ones I'm looking to help.

What matters most is that if you've decided to follow these lessons, it means you've put a certain degree of trust in the approach covered here. So long as you hold enough trust in this source to continue following it, then do so in its entirety. Don't half-ass it.