Drawabox Lesson 5: An Introduction to Drawing Animals

Drawabox is a series of free structured drawing lessons that explore the basic mechanics of drawing, along with the fundamental skills of capturing the illusion of solid form and constructing complex objects from their simplest components.

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[DannyLeAgent]

thank you for these free lessons, just know that your lessons may one day turn one of us students into skilled artists

[pirtpirtpirt]

I am so glad that I could survive the whole insect and arachnid lessons and finally reached out these lessons. Thank you for these amazing lessons!

[ashmitatamang]

"what's your flex?"
Me : " i reached to lesson 5 of drawabox course." <3

[Kate-vdhl]

You my friend, are a legend. Thanks for taking the time to deliver some free edumacation.

[toucandoit]

Thanks for all the lessons, I started by myself as a graphic designer, but after a while felt quite empty inside because I wanted to learn to draw but felt I couldn't.... About 9 months ago I came across your course and today reached lesson 5. Your way of understanding the problems that we go through, and the way you explain has helped me restore my confidence again!. I really appreciate that. You are awesome! Thanks.

[pablogarciaegido]

Cheers for the lessons mate! Because of people like you the internet is such a great place. Many thanks again!

[davidparra]

Thanks for taking the time to do this, im happy with my improvement and my understanding of the forms!

[koleka]

I was procrastinating starting this lesson as I've always had trouble drawing animals, but you nailed it and I'm so happy that it makes this much sense. Thank you so much!

[EckosamaGhostTsushima]

dude no one can fathom how much funner it gets when you do actual animals. no more boxes, no more sausage just good boi wolf and tigers!

[leruw]

@37:00 "... of your balls." That struggling genuine laugh, haha.

Jokes aside, just arrived at this lesson and digging the content. Thanks for the good work man, you are a blessing!

[connorgarrett]

This is my favorite video lesson of yours so far, there is so much solid information, and I loved how you showed photo references, and went step by step on how to construct from them. Very good job.

[shutupack]

I love the thoroughness only because it is so well paced in this course. Thank you so much!

[riffraff]

38:45 first you draw the scaffolding. then you just add the details. Lol that jump reminded me of that spongebob draw a circle episode

[cjjohnson]

As someone who has been drawing anime hair for years, fur seems to come pretty naturally. I remember drawing pages and pages of different shapes that hair could clump into, just to get that hairstyle right... it's been coming in quite handy now that i'm drawing fur more.

[ryze_xspitez]

The insanity of being all the way here is so surreal to myself I’ve gotten further than I could’ve imagined prior to this

[itsianlol]

Hey man, appreciate all your hard work creating these videos! I love drawabox, but having someone explain via video is significantly more helpful. Thanks a lot! Subbed!

[a.taruntej]

I can already feel, this lesson is going to be an heck of a ride

[wippo]

Thanks so much I'm excited to finally be on the animal section and my tiger went better than I expected.

[nocbvideos]

I have to 100% agree to what you said about randomnis. Ive been into portrait drawing for quiet some time now and there where instances where I was really fed up with a piece and just wanted to get done with it. Thats why I started speeding up my decisions and mark making to the point where I wasnt consciously thinking about what I am doing anymore. I randomly filled in shapes in the hope to at some abstract quality to the otherwise realistic drawing.

The result: I have ruined ervery single peace in wich I realied on randomnis and threw hours of work out of the window.

[ayushmishra-mgdz]

thankyou so much for this tutorials... even though i'm stuck on lesson 4 from 3 months😅i still wanted to see thiss video cause i was curious