Artemys

Thank you so much, Rob. I truly appreciate the critique!

I just wanted to make sure that this went through:

https://imgur.com/a/VCAzCw5

Here are two pages of re-drawn through ellipses.

Please see my upload with drawn through ellipses:

https://imgur.com/a/VCAzCw5

Hahaha.... i am bad, bad, bad, at following directions. BAD. SO. The 250 box challenge is ... done? It took me about 30 hours. However, I will not submit it until you approve my ellipses. I'll do the ellipses and upload them now.

I jumped back and fprth between all things .... digital, pencil, fineliner .... whatever I was feeling at the moment. I don't know if that's the right apprpach, its just what i did!

its hard to say without having seen your art, but these courses are tough. Honestly, I would go through Proko's figure drawing AND anatomy classes and THEN do CDA. If you've never really studied figure drawing, jumping right into CDA would be a mistake. It's not fun and games. The critiques are real. Get as good as you can before spending the money - the better you are, the more you'll get out of it.

Completely endorse this - the Michael Hampton book was a revelation.

Hahahah! Let me share my experience --- I started with Draw a Box back in August, and went all the way up to the 250 box challenge. I think I drew about 100 boxes, but --- I got bored. So, that's exactly what I did. I took Proko's basic figure drawing, a few more classes, and then advanced figure drawing and I'm back. I can do gestures, bean, robo-bean, even boxes, but when we get up to structure and interlocking forms?? WHOOPS!! Huge struggle. You can't do this if you can't draw a box and draw it well. Effortlessly. I'm back. I'm probably a little better than when I started, but I think that I would have had an easier time of it if I stuck it out here.

But... Let me add a bit of wisdom that I learned along the way. When you practice, you want to do both... highly technical drawing AND gestural drawing. Draw a couple of pages of boxes and then do some 30 second gestures or 1 minute studies. Have fun. Play. Do both things.

Hi, Rob -

Okay. It's been a while - here's what happened .... I got bored with drawing ellipses and started taking CE classes with RISD, bunches of Proko classes, and then an anatomy class with Marshall Vandruff. AND. GOT. STUCK. Draw the body as set of boxes, cyclinders, and circles, he said. Interlock the shapes, he said. The body is architecture, he said.

I can memorize the bony landmarks and the significant muscles of the body till the cows come home. AND BELIEVE ME, I HAVE. IT'S ALL FOR NOTHING IF I CAN'T DRAW A FLIPPING BOX.

So I'm back. Here are my ellipses. I'm back on the challenge. Moving back so I can move forward.

https://imgur.com/a/6w53V5f

I doubt these are any better, but I listened to what you had to say and practiced. If you want more ellipses, I got 'em.