Thank you in advance to whoever critiques this. I did complete the 250 box challenge prior to starting this though since there is quite a backlog of submissions mine did not get graded yet. However, I decided to continue onwards so as to keep up a decent pace.
Hi Redartist23,
I've checked your submission,
Wanna start out by reminding you that it's for your best interests to just wait for feedback on your submission. Critiques are not just to give you a badge, they give you another person perspectice on your work so you can improve, so I recommend you that from now on you wait between lessons, don't try to rush learning. Another thing that you can do so your submissions don't get forgotten it's to critique others! I would say that half of what you can learn from Draw a Box it's in the lessons and the other half it's the reviews!
Also, I saw that someone has already critique your 250 box challenge, so we can go straight into this one!
Now, Wanna start out by your organic arrows and forms. In general, when you do lines that are organic, they look kind of woobly. Don't worry, this is normal, though remember that you should look for your line to look confident over being accurate, so if you ever feel afraid of doing a curved line just do the ghosting method and go for it, and if you miss, don't worry again! accuracy comes with time and practice.
As I've said this also happens in your organic forms, try to do them in a single stroke.
About your texture exercises, I wanna talk to things mainly about shadows. FIrst, If you are gonna appaly a shadow make it a black mark, don't do scratchy lines to shadow nothing, pure black. This takes more time but gives you a better end result. There is also pen brushes that will mae this easier, but you don't really need them, in my case I don't use them.
Another thing that I saw in your dissections is that you are explicitly putting all the information that you are seeing of the textures. For a start and this exercise, it's not bad, but I recommend you check again the implicit vs explicit video con the lesson, it really explains how we, as artists, are supposed to make as we put all the information and let the viewer trick itself.
Your form intersections look good, though I see a problem in your line weight. Remember that it's more important that you do it confidently than getting it accurate!
I'm gonna mark this lesson as completed! Keep it up.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 3!
Thank you for your feedback Wiejak! For the organic lines, I've been trying to practice my strokes when doing curves, as those seem to be my weakest area. One thing I'm having trouble with is lightening my strokes (which impacts my textures and line weights, as you pointed out). However, when I try to apply a lighter stroke, I inadvertently make the stroke less confident. Do you have any advice on how to practice that?
Also, I do agree with you that it makes complete sense to wait for a submission to be graded before moving on. I do try to spend time reviewing other's submissions (though since as of writing this I only have lesson 1 complete there's not much in variety for me to grade). But it can be a long wait for critique, which I don't mind since everyone here is doing it out of their generosity, but I do get a little anxious to try new things and push forward. Which obviously incurs issues.
Hey man, my plasure!
Regarding applying lighter strokes, it's one of those things that will take you practice, there is no better way to put it. The more you use your fine liner, the more you will know the in and outs of it.
Now, Yes I'm aware it takes some long for revie, my lesson two review took 28 days, and I fel also anxious. However, there are things you can do between lessons, I try to do photo studies to get more comfortable with digital painting (I'm telling you this as an example) You should look for other things to practice. Also, The more critique's you do when you have a submission posted, the more time that submission stays up in the front pages, so take that into account.
Now that you have completed lesson 2, you can review work both from this lesson and the 250 box challenge (plus lesson 1), I really encourage you to do this althoguh you don't feel you are ready, you really learn a lot from it.
Best of luck!
Will do, thank you. I can't promise I'll be able to completely stop myself from moving to a later lesson (I know that feel with the ~month wait, not to mention my box stuff only eventually got noticed via this submission haha), but I'll try to spend a week at least just doing some reviews before moving on. Hopefully that combined with the boost from reviews will get it seen faster.
This is a remarkable little pen. Technically speaking, any brush pen of reasonable quality will do, but I'm especially fond of this one. It's incredibly difficult to draw with (especially at first) due to how much your stroke varies based on how much pressure you apply, and how you use it - but at the same time despite this frustration, it's also incredibly fun.
Moreover, due to the challenge of its use, it teaches you a lot about the nuances of one's stroke. These are the kinds of skills that one can carry over to standard felt tip pens, as well as to digital media. Really great for doodling and just enjoying yourself.
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