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SebastianM

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    8:09 PM, Friday September 23rd 2022

    Hi

    you've successfully completed 250 boxes, congratulations.

    Now, to improve you should step back and look at a few things.

    • markmaking

    • 3D Perspective

    Next Steps:

    Revisit the markmaking lesson and watch the explanation video and read the explanation text.

    Try to find out why your lines aren't as straight as you could draw them. Are you drawing from your shoulder and not the wrist? Exercise by completing a fitting homework again like "superimposed lines".

    Revisit the explanation for the perspective lessons and homework.

    You haven't quite understood how perspective works yet. Redoing the "Plotted Perspective" (I think it was called this) where you draw boxes with a ruler is a very good idea.

    It will help you understand 3D space better.

    As of now your lines of the boxes do not converge when they should.

    Greetings

    Sebastian

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    5:45 PM, Wednesday September 14th 2022

    No worries and please don't misunderstand:

    I didn't mean to say that not resting your wrist at all is best but I think that it's something worth trying out.

    Because if you could get used to it you wouldn't have to deal with the difficulty of dragging your wrist too much.

    I myself rest my wrist for support too.

    If you're careful to not create too much drag you're fine in my opinion.

    One more tip for the 250 Box Challenge:

    Most of the time it's no fun so I'd recommend to not get into too much of a grind.

    It'll feel like a chore.

    Maybe decide on filling 2 pages a day like I did (6 Boxes per sheet).

    Have fun, bye

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    5:15 PM, Sunday September 11th 2022

    Hi Senator Platypus,

    your submission looks great, your improvement is visible.

    Your understanding of 3D space is good and will definitely improve in the 250 Box Challenge.

    Next Steps:

    Your mark making skill is what you should focus most on in the future because it's a really important aspect you will improve at.

    Your lines tend to curve quite a bit sometimes.

    It's not that easy to explain exactly how to improve at it since it's something you'll learn by focusing on everything you do motorically when doing each stroke.

    Try to think about these questions when drawing:

    • Am I drawing from my shoulder instead of my wrist? / is my wrist really "locked"/not moving?

    • Am I rotating the page correctly for each stroke?

    • Am I holding the pen too tightly? / Is my body too tensed up/stiff? (Holding the pen rather lightly and being relaxed physically and mentally is recommended, though it's hard to force yourself to be relaxed)

    • How should it feel when the tip of the pen slides across the page, how much should I press it down?

    • Is my wrist resting on the page when drawing for additional stability? Is it obstructing the stroke by creating too much drag?

    • Would my Strokes improve if I didn't rest my wrist when drawing?

    I could go on and on, these are questions that helped me.

    You'll have to observe yourself when drawing and constantly try out different techniques/subtleties in order to improve.

    Mentally you should accept to fail, only then can you draw in a relaxed state and draw decisive, confident strokes.

    I hope I didn't confuse you too much, have fun

    Sebastian

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    4:18 PM, Thursday August 4th 2022

    Thank you for your feedback.

    My markmaking skills are improvable, I changed my pen which has already helped.

    I forgot to upload "Rotated Boxes", so I did that, thanks for telling me.

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    3:57 PM, Wednesday August 3rd 2022

    Great progress overall. I like how confident your strokes are even if you overshoot or miss sometimes.

    What you can improve:

    Your sense of 3D space: you've progressed in this aspect considerably too, now you could review the lesson about how the lines of boxes converge again and identify the mistakes in your "organic perspective" sheets.

    Some lines there do not converge or aren't parallel when they should be. They "go further apart" when they shouldn't.

    Just thinking about the behavior of boxes in 3D space will improve your understanding over time, no rush.

    Hope this helped, goodbye

    Next Steps:

    Now you could review the lesson about how the lines of boxes converge again and identify the mistakes in your "organic perspective" sheets.

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