DeerboyeBoxes

Hello, I took a break due to the promptathon but here is my revisions.

https://imgur.com/a/l4jKeRY

One issue I was having in the past was I was working with a spotty fineliner, which I think lead to me overdoing the line weight. I switched to a newer pen and tried to limit reapplying line weight to only specifying overlaps, as mentioned in your critique.

I think that counts! The goal of that rule is to stop yourself from burning out from hyperfixating on practice, which can be pretty demoralizing and draining, especially in a case where it differs from your favored art/subject matter. I'm kind of in the same boat, where my interest is leaning into figure drawing rather than the constructional stuff DrawABox is working on, but I do find a lot of benefits to my general drawing even if its a little outside of what I personally "want" to be doing.

That being said, it might be worth including some drawing time just to get more used to the tools and all. Maybe a sketchbook or notebook and a pen for doodling on the go would be worth getting, since there's less of a "setup" than painting it might be easier to do it out and about when you can't paint. If its becoming too much of a chore I wouldn't force myself to, though

Thank you!

One thing I've done in the past to wean myself off of tracing was putting the reference on a layer, tracing the construction on top of it, then repeating that construction several times while reducing the base image's opacity by 20-25%, all the way down to zero. Sorta a good way to build up confidence to start a construction from scratch. I definitely wouldn't do that or anything else i feel is leaning to hard on tracing for art I was considering posting or sharing publicly but for a pure study in the early phases, or taking a stab at something just to see if I could cover a topic, I thought it was helpful