Hey all, I am a complete beginner in drawing. I've been on and off trying to get started on learning. In the beginning of the year, I started drawabox and bought the whole concept of construction as the main way to learn how to draw.

For many different reasons, I stopped drawabox on lecture 2, but since the quarantine I'm trying to get back on tree. Looking around other learning sources, I saw that people recommend books such as Keys to Drawing and Drawing from the Right Side. These sources approach learning from an observational perspective, where the important part is to learn how to draw the lines, abstract away from the symbols ingrained in our brains.

Now, are these two conflicting ways to approach learning? Drawabox says that they are not, but he also says that observational drawing should be done from construction anyways.

Is he saying that the approaches from the above books are incorrect? If I get very good at following the lines from pictures and get accurate drawings, am I really learning to draw? Or am I just learning to accurately copy stuff? Isn't construction a more 'complete' approach to learning?