kaponautas

I'm sorry for the late reply again, had to deal with a lot of personnal stuff and wanted to get it done, so I could tackle the revisions with more care and patience. So anyways here are the revisions and here are the reference photos used.

Here are my revisions. I'm sorry for the late reply, I got really busy with some personal stuff. I tried my best to follow the instructions on your critique but I don't know if I succeeed or not.

Here are the branches.

I finally understood the overlapping of the lines! So that's why my linework was so messy on my first attempts. Though I think my execution is still kind of lacking, especially my ellipses.

Here's the link with the revisions.

I do have to say, I have been struggling with bad time management. I'm following this art curriculum and on it's structure says that you should spend a month in each term. So I've been trying this and slowly realising that I can't properly retain most of the information I learn because I'm rushing the courses to finish them in a month or so.

Of course I didn't follow the Drawabox course as the curriculum says (I believe you're not a big fan of how this thing tries to rush you through 4 lessons in a row), but I usually study a lesson per month (and sometimes even while trying to follow other courses as well). So thats why I didn't draw as much as I could.

Currently I'm rethinking about how I spend my time. Sometimes I feel like I have a lot of stuff to study in a short period of time, and it seems like a daunting challenge even at the beginning of the month. At the same time, I do want to get better as quickly as I can, but I don't want to burn my self to the point that I won't enjoy drawing anymore. I try to follow the 50% rule but I usually end up not drawing for fun and instead being lazy watching youtube videos and stuff, and when I do draw I don't focus on the drawing as I'd like to because I decided to listen to a podcast or something else to distract me when instead I'd much prefer to focus solely on the drawing.

Anyways, maybe is just a matter of trying to fix my bad habits and organize my time. Thank you for the great critique and I hope I can reach the high hopes you got in me haha.

Thanks now I understand that I should be using my shoulder to give line weight, I'll be practicing this. Once again thanks for the critique and for taking your time to answer my questions!

Here are the assigments.

I think is good to tell you about some things you pointed out on the critique.

My lines are bad on the arrows exercise because on the explanation it says to go over the lines to give them more weight, but I don't reaaly know how to do it. Do I use my shoulder which is less accurate but more confident and smooth, or do I use my wrist which is more accurate but doesn't have good range and it's not smooth?

Also I have to say that the explanation on the contour forms exercise is really confunsing. Because it says that you should use the more consistent sausages forms but on the example of the exercise it has a lot of different forms and it becomes quite confusing. Should I draw or not every form like it is explained on the text?

Anyways thanks for the critique, it was great!

Whoa great video! Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the critique! I had a lot of trouble with the lines on the back of the boxes. Like, the third and last line on the back would always be really tilted away from the vp because I missed the right spot where the first two should connect. Could you give me some advice about it?

Thanks for the critique!

Thanks for the critique! It was very helpful and encouraging, I'll keep doing my best