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The Drawabox website has been rebuilt

🕑 Added 2018-12-26 13:00:59 +0000 UTC

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Thanks

Uncomfortable

I'm glad you like the changes!

Andy Herzig

I am enjoying the new layout and materials quite a bit. Thanks for your effort on this. It's a great way to start the New Year!

Uncomfortable

I'm not a big fan of hedging in that manner, or splitting people into groups who may be "ready", and others who won't. Within the scope of my experience over the last few years, people have always taken greater comfort in certainty, rather than being left to determine for themselves where they stand.

F Lengyel

There is a difference between 1) insisting that the 50% of your own work will not be optimal and that you will not be ready for a long time and 2) allowing for the possibility that it might not be optimal, and that one should press on in any case.

Uncomfortable

Because it's extremely important to make clear. A lot of students will try to draw something, find that it doesn't meet their expectations, then hold off until they feel that they are "ready", out of an innate fear of failure. I make this point frequently, not just in this article, but also in elsewhere on the website and in my interaction with students: there is absolutely nothing wrong with something coming out worse than you'd hope it would. Even on the discord server, there's a channel called #well-that-went-poorly. It's dedicated to people posting work that they've done that didn't turn out as they'd hoped. In that channel, all compliments and discussion is deleted by a bot - the point is not to post something and have others convince you that your drawing was great. The point is to celebrate the fact that regardless of the result, you drew something when you could have instead stared at a blank piece of paper all evening - a struggle most artists understand. The goal is not to be a downer, but the forcefulness of the statement serves a significant purpose: to shift the obsession away from this idea of "failure is bad". You don't take that fear away by tiptoeing around it - you do so by addressing things in a frank, direct manner, making it clear that this is something we all face, and ultimately something we will all overcome.

F Lengyel

Uncomfortable

My pleasure!

Uncomfortable

I definitely planned it to aim for the new years resolution crowd :D Best of luck going through them!

Uncomfortable

Hahaha, yeah, I'm pretty glad that it's done - for now. There will be more updates in the future!

Uncomfortable

It's been my pleasure, and has only been possible due to the continued support of my patrons.

Uncomfortable

I'm glad you like it! Happy New Year to you too.

Uncomfortable

My pleasure - and thanks for your continued support!

RyvyrDGoblin

Much the gratitude for such ardent efforts!

Renée Carignan

The new layout is great! One of my new years resolutions is to start working my way through the lessons. Thanks for keeping the content up to date. Happy holidays and Merry new year!