Contents — Draw Your Own Comics

The short version

You do not need to finish Drawabox or the Solo Art Curriculum — both are built to produce generalist realism artists over a year or more of near-daily work. Take Drawabox’s Lessons 0–2 for spatial fundamentals, then deliberately pivot toward cartooning: Loomis, Proko, the Etherington Brothers, and Scott McCloud on comics craft.

At 1–3 hrs a week, this is a multi-year hobby, not a bootcamp. Adopt Drawabox’s own 50% rule from day one, stay on paper through character design, and add an iPad only once you can build a character from imagination.

Key findings from the research

1Drawabox teaches spatial reasoning, not style. Its early lessons transfer to any style; its later lessons (plants, animals, vehicles) are realism-flavored repetition most cartoonists don’t need.
2The Solo Art Curriculum is excellent, but built for a different artist. Its figure-drawing and character-design units are worth borrowing; its anatomy and painting sequence targets concept artists, not cartoonists.
3Dedicated cartooning resources already exist and are free. Loomis, the Etherington Brothers, Proko, and McCloud cover exactly the ground a comic artist needs.

Draw your own comics,
one page at a time.

The short version

Key findings from the research

The eleven sections