VexedVampire

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    11:42 PM, Wednesday June 16th 2021

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    A critique from the big box boss himself, nice! I made the revisions as you suggested, but I think these are actually worse than before. I don't get it; I re-read the article and watched the videos again 3x as well as your feedback, but as I went to draw the boxes, everything was just a jumble of confused lines. They overlapped, phased in and out of 3D, and I couldn't remember every step. Whenever I draw, it's like this, but worse if I'm trying to do a completed, color painting. I work slowly because It's like I have to remember 500+ things all at once. Motion, perspective, line weight, line confidence, light direction, shading, etc. For these, I was trying to remember where the convergence points were for each line, but when I went to draw them intersecting, it was like I forgot where the other point was and they all ended up completely off. None of this spatial reasoning stuff comes naturally to me like it used to, which just makes everything even more vexing.

    12:43 AM, Friday May 21st 2021

    Thanks for the detailed feedback. When it comes to drawing specific things with lower margins of error like boxes, I'm usually mindful of the start and endpoints. In the lessons, Uncomfortable suggested lifting your hand off the paper to avoid overshooting the other vertex, but when I do that, I usually overcompensate and undershoot the target instead, likely because I'm aware of my own heavy-handedness; do you have any other ideas to achieve both accuracy and line confidence?

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