Yeah I agree with others, all these foundational skills are great but it's choose your adventure! And one of the great things about Proko is you don't ever lose access, so you can always come back months later and revisit that lesson you felt stuck in before. I kind of see Drawing Basics that way overall, it's a lot of things I'll keep coming back too. Just have fun even when stuff is tough! Every line you draw is legit.

I follow my interest. I more or less follow the class order, but sometimes I stick with something longer and focus on those skills before moving on. Other times I go through the material, and then quickly move on to the next. I can always come back to revisit it. Sometimes I'll leap ahead if there is something of particular interest or it addresses a particular need I have. As far as part 2 of your question. I started the Proko Drawing Basics last summer, and then a few weeks later started taking an in person introduction to drawing class at the local college. I found the combination of in person and video classes very complementary, and there wasn't as nearly the redundancy that I expected. Now I'm taking a figure drawing class at the college and back in November I added the Perspective and Heinrich Kley classes here during the Black Friday sale. Personally other than the most basic of basic skills, I don't really think there is a wrong or right order to things, You have to learn what you need to learn, and most skills have cross over with other skills. I think it is a lot more important that you do things in a way that keeps you engaged, than worrying about the "right" way, and that is going to be different from person to person. Some need to follow a very orderly A-Z format. That is not me, I'm much more of a problem solver, I tend to use the wack a mole model.

Here to echo your feelings. I've tried a bunch of Basic courses but the trouble I always have is not knowing when or if I should move on. Spent a year at drawabox banging my head against that first lesson group and never figured out how to draw a box, got super frustrated and quit drawing for about a year. Would it have been better after drawing some one thousand boxes to just keep going? or by not knowing how to effectively draw said box will get in the way with the rest of the lessons? And this isn't an indictment on drawabox, I run into same pattern with courses from Udemedy, a set of Dvds from a Professor from the University of Washington and Myron Barnestones classes. Same exact problem, do a lesson, suck really, really bad and just not being able to work my way through it to any level of satisfaction. If I were to go back to a basic class I would probably adopt the approach I have with the Perspective course and Line Weight Class. Take a week with each video, post the work and keep moving. Try to keep in mind what I learned and try to apply it but keep moving forward. Hopefully someone wiser and far more skilled with swing by and offer some more concrete advice. Best of Luck!