Molly

Thanks for your time to look over my work and provide me with feedback. I did two more pages of the exercise:

https://imgur.com/a/YiyOq9W

Hi again,

Thanks for your reply! I'm much more stable mentally than I was at the begining of the month, but now main issue currently is that I just have so so much to do that I am having a hard time deciding which priorities deserve my attention. Right now it has been less about drawing and I need to find a way to keep some sort of consistency. I have gotten a few ideas about this from a book I just read called Atomic Habits by James Clear and so far some of the things I have read about and been experimenting with are working.

Another stressor has been my university. We will be having all classes online because of covid and so on the 24th I'm going to be adjusting to that and figuring out how to schedule out my life so I can do the things that are important to me. Hope you are doing okay today, I've been meaning to get back to you and I was finally able to find some time to do so.

Talk to you later,

Molly

Forgive me for the time gap in responding to your message. I appreciate your patience and I also a appreciate the time you put into reworking on this exercise. Great job and good improvement! I hope you found redoing the exercise helpful. Keep mixing in this exercise to your warmups from time to time, and if you have a second I'd love it if you'd give me a crit on my homework on this lesson too. Thanks friend, and good luck with the following lessons!

They are the sakura gelly roll moonlight pens. They come in a thick and thin sizes.

This is the thick size:

https://www.amazon.com/Sakura-Gelly-Moonlight-Assorted-Colors/dp/B000GZOCA8/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&keywords=subaru+gelly+roll+pens&qid=1596840141&sr=8-10

And this is the thinner size:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IST4R40/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1\

And here are the white ones that I like to buy in sets of 3 and 3 different thickness:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BXTNNPR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

These are the glittery ones:

https://www.amazon.com/Sakura-57370-10-Piece-Assorted-Metallic/dp/B001LXK5HS/ref=psdc_1069828_t4_B0018N8ETW

There are other colors of gelly roll pens but these are the ones that will work on black or dark paper. Hope this helps. I'd love to see what you make with these so send me a message if you end up buying them.

Alan,

Thanks so much for posting these sketches and sharing your thoughts. I really needed to hear that cuz I am in a very similar position to you. Thanks for being inspiring. I really needed that today.

Molly

Good work. This was a hard one for me at least so good job finishing it! Here is my feedback. I hope it is helpful.

Arrows:

Your arrows in space are looking pretty good perspective wise. I'm going to suggest that when you practice this exercise again in your warmups, just try making more various shapes for the arrows though because i noticed that you used very similarly shaped arrows quite a few times and you will learn more if you try new stuff.

Organic forms with contour lines:

Will you please also do some warm up pages on some of the days before you start drawing (I'm not asking for you to resubmit this, but i think it would be quite helpful to keep practicing these). Do some pages that have a few of the contour ellipses and a few of the contour curves too just to keep practicing? Mix up the old exercises you felt you need improvement on and use them for warmups.

Textures:

This exercise is hard. I know it was for me. My main observation of your work is that on your dissections in some areas you are outlining shapes rather than implying them. You could also push the illusion that the shape of the form is wrapping by making the middle of the section lighter than the outer edges to hint at a highlight and then more shadows as the edge of the form moves farther into the background. My advice is to take a sketchbook and just go out in nature and observe then sketch as often as you can. The more you do it, the better you will become, even if you do little bits at a time. Practice drawing the things you want to draw but apply what you've learned from this exercise.

Form Intersections:

This one was tough for me so I don't know how qualified I am to make corrections or suggestions for you, but it does look like there are a few instances were the form has passed through another in more than one section but you have not indicated that on some of your shapes. Just keep practicing.

Organic Intersections:

On your organic intersections I there are noticed lots of places where you didn't draw through your forms so do one more page of those and resubmit that before you do the next lessons. If you are not sure what I mean by that, watch the video from the exercise or message me back and I'll try to explain better why I am thinking it would be wise to redo it before moving on.

Hope this helps and I'm looking forward to seeing your revisions.

Molly

Hey thanks so much. I've had to step away from lessons on here for a minute (I have not stopped drawing tho) so I've been inactive on drawabox, hence the late response. I really appreciate your comments and I am glad that you enjoyed my art!

Not a problem. Thanks for getting back to me, and thanks again for the idea, I ended up trying it out and did several sketches this week :)

Hello and thanks for your time to critique and give me some feedback. It is greatly appreciated. I have obtained pens in the correct size finally so that has been very helpful.

Neither of the links you shared with me worked but I was able to find the spot in the video and I kind of was able to guess the part in the text that you were referencing for me to review, and from there I tried to draw some more boxes. Here are 2 more pages

I drew the boxes bigger and I tried to be mindful of the things you mentioned as I drew them this time, paying much more attention to vanishing points and which directions my lines would extend.

I focused on the initial Y shape creating the planes that are facing the viewer, but I guess one doubt that I have, or something that I am not quite clear on, is if I have been picking the correct face of each box to be shaded.

Thanks again for your reply and your patience for recieving a response from me. I was thrown off a bit by my sleep and work schedule getting rearranged, but now I'm back and ready to keep drawing. Hope to hear from you soon :)

That is a great idea! I think I will try this too.