Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes | Lines: Using Your Arm
This feature is available completely free. While we will be keeping an eye on how feasible it is to eat the costs associated, we hope to keep it that way. Just click "Listen with Drawabox"! As promised, we'll be starting from the absolute basics: the mechanics that drive your arm, and how it can be used from different pivots to make different kinds of marks. This video demonstrates the difference between drawing from your wrist, elbow, and shoulder, the benefits of each, and why in this course we focus primarily on drawing from your shoulder. As always, watching the video first, then later reading through the text will help you absorb the material more efficiently than just doing one or the other. Don't be afraid to come back and rewatch or reread material either, to help refresh your memory later on. Thanks to the importance of literacy in our society, and the fact that handwriting is still an important skill in our day to day lives (at least for now), most students equate the mechani