Spendthriftmonk

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Alright, I've done what was asked, and also just decided to include a few extra leaf drawings to showcase more folds. I've been practicing those outside of these assignments and do feel like I'm grasping them a little better now. I hope this will satisfy. Drawing larger is something I'm still trying to train my brain to remember so just take into account I am attempting to be mindful of that even if it's a difficult habit to break.

However, I must confess that I don't find drawabox's approach to texture thus far to be as helpful as the rest of the lessons. It's the thing that the website itself states is not a main focus of the course but even still I have been trying my best, and despite reading over the notes NUMEROUS times, the explainations given just don't click with my brain. I've tried applying them in my own practice but it just doesn't work. I cannot look at a reference photo and differentiate between surface texture and 'shadow shapes' or even really grasp how to convey the difference between implicit and explicit texture. Honestly it's caused me an immense amount of stress and I considered dropping the drawabox lessons altogether because of it. All I can say is I hope I won't be held back from continuing on based on that because I really just don't feel like the information thus far on the topic is enough to help me get any greater sense on how to tackle this aspect of drawing.

Thank you for your time and the critique. I am definitely aware of most of the mistakes you've outlined for me, and understand the technical execution skills are something that will take more time to develop. I struggle a bit in my head with confident markmaking during some exercises. Often outside of assignments I just feel less pressure and perform a bit better with certain things. I'm sure that's something I'll work through eventually.

I will move onto the 250 Box Challenge and hopefully feel like I come away with a better grasp on constructing those structures. At this time it's still very difficult for me to see the shapes in my mind and I have a tendancy to end up drawing many boxes in similar orientation. I'll use the Y Method tool for the first 100 boxes as the challenge suggests since that may help me better understand how the shapes are to be made from that initial starting point. I'll be more mindful of line weight as well since I definitely feel like that has been a struggle for me.

Thank you again, and have a good day~!