Vyse

Hi Rob,

Thank you so much for your feedback and for letting the slightly different pens I used slide this time. I will be looking forward to your comments on the 250 boxes challenge ????

It is obvious that you do put in a lot of effort. If you try to construct the head out of basic 3D shapes first, you can get a far better threedimensional impression across. There are some excellent free videos made by Proko on YouTube on portrait drawing that explain the method and what to look out for when drawing the nose, eyes, ears, mouth, etc. Really helped me when I found them. Just search for „proko portrait“ on YouTube or their website and you will find a series of videos by them.

The quality and consistency of your lines is really impressive. At times I was wondering if those were really made by hand and not with a ruler. There seems to be a little problem with convergence however. The edges of every box that face the same direction are all parallel to each other. Normally this only happens when we look straight at one face of the box without seeing the other sides. When viewing a box in perspective, each set of edges is supposed to converge to a vanishing point. That is actually one of the more tricky aspects of this exercise. We know that all of the edges on the actual box we are supposed to be drawing a parallel in reality, but the lässt of perspective show that we cannot draw them parallel if we want them to look „right“. Maybe check out the descriptions on the topic in lesson 1 and the 250 boxes challenge description and do a few more pages where you try to make the lines converge. Since this is a central aspect of this exercise I would mark this for revision, but other than the convergence thing I‘d say you did a good job with these. Keep it up!

I'd say just try to keep in mind what you thought when you placed your original lines and then check in what way you were off when you correct them. Then try to apply what you learned on the next page and see if you hit the mark this time. If you do this 250 times you will improve. At this point you haven't even completed 10% of the boxes so it is no surprise that you do not see the effects yet. Trust the soup, just keep drawing and yoz will notice a difference at some point.

Generally speaking, the superimposed lines get harder the longer and the more curvey they get. You tried very few straight lines and you really didn't fill up the page in general. I would suggest to do more straight lines with increasing length in addition to what you already have.

As for the ghosted lines and planes: I'm not sure how often you have done exercises like this before but they do not look half bad. That being said, you kept trying to correct lines. Do not redraw a line once you put it down. Our eyes go to the place of highest contrast when we look at an image. Having darker areas from having multiple lines in one spot just draws more attention to those areas. in other words, by trying to correct your errors, you draw attention to them. When you start to do drawings for your own enjoyment that is the last thing you want so don't make it a habbit.

Other than that, I can give you a tip I got from my drawing teacher back from I was taking a drawing class in university. When you draw a line, look at the point where you want it to land, not where you are currently drawing. Even if you are drawing fast like uncomfortable explained, your brain still tries to correct your movement. If you look at the point you want to hit you will further minimize this effect. It might feel a bit weird but try it out sometime. After a bit of practice it worked wonders for me.