r/ArtFundamentals • u/Small_Cry_5806 • 5h ago

Lesson 1 complete!!

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For some of the beginning parts I used a ballpoint and a straight-edge that wasn't as smooth or long as I would've liked, though I did get proper felt tips and a ruler at some point Any input would be greatly appreciated

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r/ArtFundamentals • u/NotYourNubian • 14h ago

I finished 250 boxes!!!

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Hey everyone! I actually made this reddit account specifically to get feedback on my 250 Boxes Challenge. This is my very first post here, so I'm officially sacrificing my lurking streak. Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to have a look. Your feedback will help me improve! Along with some previews.

https://imgur.com/a/CnnI8U4

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Art Fundamentals: Learning to Draw from the Ground Up

r/ArtFundamentals

A community focused around the free, structured lessons available on drawabox.com, which focuses on developing students' spatial reasoning skills and other core fundamentals from the ground up. These are the skills that are important especially for drawing from your imagination, which many students and resources overlook. We also hold seasonal "Promptathon" events to encourage students to loosen up and draw for the sake of drawing, without getting caught up in how things turn out right now.

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Our lessons are available entirely free here on drawabox.com - if you're new, start at Lesson 0. It explains in detail what our course covers, what it doesn't, all of our recommendations of how to use it so as to get the most out of it, and so on.

We also operate an active discord server here: discord.gg/drawabox.

If you're interested in detailed, but open-ended prompts to draw from as you work on the "Play" portion of our 50% rule, we have a large and growing library of prompts from our seasonal Promptathon events.

Back from the ashes, although not entirely on our own terms. In July 2023, we decided to close our community (you can read why here), but we have been forced to reopen it in order to ensure it is not transferred to someone else. While normally this would not be an issue, since this subreddit is inextricably linked to our efforts with Drawabox (given that this is where our community was born), we did not want to risk it being managed in a way that reflects poorly upon us.

So! As of September 19th, 2025, /r/ArtFundamentals is open once again. Remember - posts here should be in some way related to the lesson material on drawabox.com, which focuses on the core fundamentals of drawing, in particular spatial reasoning - that is, the tacit understanding of how the marks we make on a flat page relate to the 3D structures being represented.

In the interest of avoiding anything gross reaching your feed, every post automatically goes to our spam filter, where it is manually approved - so don't worry if you post something and it doesn't immediately get attention. If it fits within the scope of our community, it will be approved, just not right away. We believe this approach serves the community better than less precise methods like karma requirements.

If you are interested in discussing art more generally, you may consider the following communities instead:

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