Can a beginner ACTUALLY learn to draw in 30 days?

This is a silly little experiment to see if someone who REALLY has no experience with art can learn to draw in 5 hours without following tutorials.
Also, the main reason he didn't follow guides or tutorials is that nobody is going to watch 5 hours of a guy reading tutorials. Probably. Unless?

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00:00 - Intro
01:06 - How it started
05:27 - THE BIG PROBLEM
07:34 - Drawing from Reference vs Imagination

Edited by @chashuu0

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[inkparchment]

As someone who is hopeless at math, Rinke’s method for boxes is actually the coolest way I’ve seen someone figure out drawing boxes.

[janbaan]

Rinke is built different. Give him enough time and he can draw the 9th dimension

[ResearcherKeo]

4:47 DUDE LITERALLY SAID "THAT'S RIGHT, WE'RE DOING THE MATH NOW"

[liveinamber]

Seeing a math enthusiast's approach drawing is the funniest shenanigans I've seen in a while. I swear, you could set up a whole social experiment to see how different professions affect how people approach drawing.

[AndreasWilfer]

I love that they did math to resolve the perspective issue. Great man.

[pikitis]

The aproach he took for the boxes makes a lot of sense if your background is maths

[jeggalicious]

Not looking at tutorials seemed bad from a efficiency perspective but finding out what he would do on is own is reaaally interesting

[minisculebongus]

The fact that it’s actually only two days makes the growth more impressive to me. Because so much of learning a complex skill is shifting conscious effort into the unconscious, the spacing of practice over the course of a longer period of time is more meaningful than people realize.

[slyrytang]

i think 2 days for all this practice actually makes it a lot different from 30 days of practice. with 30 days even if you are only getting 10 min a day you’re getting time to sleep everyday, which is usually super important in the learning process. I still think the amount learned in the 5 hours across two days is really impressive and some of his ideas are really smart but i feel somehow that he’d be even better in an actual 30 day long set up

[xxhijirixx]

This guy is an anime main character bro. Only they would think of using MATH to draw art lol

[lckbird]

Tbf Rinke would do really well in technical drawing if he wanted! My prof works as an architectural designer so mathing can be advantageous for learning perspective. If anything, I think the experiment solidified that anybody can learn to draw if they really put the effort. Great vid as always!

[Corvusstorage]

When you are to overqualified for your job... 4:46

[Xerophun]

It looks like there's drastic improvement, considering line confidence, line weight, overall shape composition. Far beyond beginner imo. The difference is that Pewds only drew 3/4th portraits and Rinke did a gauntlet of many different subjects.

If Rinke did a 2nd phase like Pewds, he'd probably be better at drawing many different things.

[million]

I've always thought the 10 or 15 minute "limits" were never meant to be hard rules, but as a way to get you started for the day. Some days 10 minutes can feel like an hour, other days it feels like a second. For the former you can just stop then since you're likely not having fun, and the latter you can keep going because you're probably enjoying it!

[Kavukamari]

there's something just so endearing about the "looks like a child drew it" completed image... it really does look like a child drew it, but for some reason I like it anyway

[CrashBandicootFan]

Incredible progress! And honestly the approaches he takes are unique
"Drawing like a child" is quite literally how we all start regardless of age.
It's not that its childish- but it's our own baseline motor and observation skills at work.
(Love the tigers)
(and the Shaun at "day 9" made me chuckle, ty editor)

[FireRupee]

"5 hours over 30 days" and "5 hours over 2 days" are actually wildly different things. Your brain has more time to process what you've learned when you space your learning out more.

[huele]

Dude has some serious talent in observing. Like I’m serious. At day 13 he was able to draw such accurate ducks despite only started drawing. Yes, even with reference that is impressive. He’s able to make really good observation and is pretty good at comparing landmark. I think he really does have it inside him.

[zileris]

It took artists thousands of years to figure out how perspective worked. Bro just maths it into existence!

Jokes aside, this is why everyone should learn art. Different minds process things in interesting ways and that is a cool contribution to processing the world around us as artists.

[etch_art]

Rinke's box drawing method blew my mind, and shows how differently people perceive the same task. Congratulations my friend, you did a fantastic job!