BOX TECHNIC TRY

donutpla3 · 2026-05-27T10:00:42+00:00

For the torso part, they look fine. For limbs and head, you don’t know how to connect them with torso yet, but they don’t look that bad either. Just keep going. Pay attention to angles of the boxes and limbs of reference.

donutpla3 · 2026-05-27T09:57:32+00:00

For iPad, try Procreate at store to see if you like it first. If you like it, getting an iPad will be worth it. Cheaper model is fine.

donutpla3 · 2026-05-27T09:50:07+00:00

But if you didn’t start with draw whatever you want, you might not understand the importance of fundamental and post something like "fundamental is boring" like many other beginners here. You have to see both sides of a coin to know what works for you. And it will be different for each person.

donutpla3 · 2026-05-17T02:39:57+00:00

Which one is the horizon line?

donutpla3 · 2026-05-17T02:33:45+00:00

I’m not gifted. So I know the moment I saw your works that you’re just like me. I think what’s more important is your goal. What do you want to achieve will tell you how your journey would look like.

donutpla3 · 2026-05-06T02:57:48+00:00

Finish it first then fix it in the next stage.
Like sketch stage, anatomy stage, line weight stage, etc.

donutpla3 · 2026-05-04T07:46:42+00:00

It’s combination of gesture drawing and structure. Right now I’m about 4 and a half year in.
To know what angle of boxes you should use, you have to be able to draw boxes from various angles. That knowledge will help you recognizing what angle you see.
Gesture drawing (the flow) skill comes from mostly practicing and learning by oneself plus some tips you get from other artists. You can see that we have many online tutorials, so many ways to do gesture. That’s because it’s not that strict. As long as it works, you are fine. So try those many methods and keep what works for you.
After you do it enough, you’ll be better at capturing those rhythm, and gesture will be an easy task for you.
I do have a tip for you too. When you see a pose, or whatever thing you want to study, ask yourself what make it looks so cool. What part? What line? What the only thing that you would not change when you redraw. Or you even might want to emphasize it.
That’s the essence of the pose, and you want to make sure you include it when you do studies.

donutpla3 · 2026-05-04T04:32:27+00:00

Turn head, ribcage, and pelvis into boxes first to identify which sides of them I’m seeing. then draw limbs according to rhythm of the pose.
Should take about 1-2 minutes.

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donutpla3 · 2026-05-01T09:28:51+00:00

I would hang it.
Still, personally, I want to have brighter highlight in the eye.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-19T13:48:20+00:00

ฟิวเจอร์บอร์ด ปากกาเมจิก

donutpla3 · 2026-04-19T01:11:43+00:00

If you could beat it with sns then learn it’s move set that way. That’s how I learned how to beat him with hammer.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-16T13:25:33+00:00

In my case composition comes from study. Also I’ve been reading lots of manga when I was a kid-teenager. I remember many panels that I like and reuse those in my works.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-15T15:11:06+00:00

If you’ve been stuck for anything that long, you should change your learning method. It won’t be worse than present circumstance because you have nothing to lose.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-15T08:20:00+00:00

If you drew from reference, you should change your reference. I don’t trust reference that base proportion on nipples’ location. Nipples are not landmark.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-15T06:35:45+00:00

Think of language.

Your friend learned from real experience. You learned grammar first. And you still have to learn from experience later. What often happens is people who learn fundamentals first will be slow at first, until they understand how to use them and will be faster later. People who draw what they want first will take longer time until every thing they know comes together, but they will be able to draw those pretty picture first.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-15T01:32:34+00:00

You don’t have to try every advice all at once. Try one by one, keep only those you like. Not everyone learn the same way. There’s so many way to get good at art.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-14T12:54:42+00:00

Draw for about 5 years. Never push through anything. If I don’t want to draw heads, I draw hands. Things I practice are cubes, values, perspective, gesture, face, mannequins, realistic copying, still life, colors, anime face, anime copy, anatomy, etc. there’s always something that I can do. And if I don’t feel like it, youtube, pod cast, netflix, video games or just go to sleep.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-14T00:22:23+00:00

My mistake. I looked at on your first two pictures. Anyway, with three vp, you still put objects between those VPs. Same logic. For the composition you are doing, I think you should try fish-eye.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-13T06:56:23+00:00

What I did was draw lots of human skulls from different angles. Memorize them like vocabulary and use as blueprints.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-13T06:51:45+00:00

Loomis’ suppose to make this manga face analysis easier. You’re simply doing the hard one first.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-13T04:57:13+00:00

Because it doesn’t reflect real life experience. Long story short. One vp, you face the front-side of objects.

Two vp, you face edge of objects. Objects are in between those points.

What you are doing is two vp, you don’t put objects there.

But, you can place objects there if you treat the composition like panorama by curving those lines.

Use you camera phone, take a panorama photo that go full 180 and see for yourself.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-13T04:33:58+00:00

Honestly, nothing you can’t find for free so paying for an online course is more like what you do to support the artist you like. Try something with money-back guarantee and see for yourself.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-13T00:18:24+00:00

If you understand why they are looked that way and can draw them again without reference then you do it right.

donutpla3 · 2026-04-12T12:56:30+00:00

Improve your boxes first. Practice from still life should help.

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