Lesson 7: Applying Construction to Vehicles
11:13 PM, Sunday July 19th 2020
I put all the references I used and all the proportional studies I did on a separate imgur post, which is this one :
As this might be my last submission, there are some things I want to say.
First I'd like to thank you for everything you've taught me.
I seriously started drawing one year ago. Drawabox has been part of my daily life for something close to 6 months.
I aspire to someday become an illustrator. In September, I will attempt an admission test for an art school. Despite the fact that skills are still nowhere compared to what I want them to be, I feel hopeful and confident thanks to everything I've learned.
Drawabox isn't the only course I followed, but it is with no doubt the one that had the biggest positive impact, and also the one that pushed me the hardest. So hard in fact, that I don't think I was ready for lesson 7. But I did it anyway as best I could. Part of me wishes I could've done better, but I think this feeling will always poke its head, no matter how good or bad I do.
And quite frankly, a bigger part of me just wanted this to be finished. I have a long history of giving up projects, and I couldn't allow Drawabox to be one more to add to that pile. "Done is better than perfect". There are many other things I want to learn and explore in drawing and painting, but as I got close to the end, I felt like each drawing was emptying my willpower.
I still don't consider it done. I will wait for you to make that judgment. If you believe that there are some revisions to be added, then so be it.
I spent anything between 1 and 6 hours per day for 6 months on the lessons and challenges. And some of it was really, really frustrating. At times the only thing that was going in my head was a strong desire to give up or insult th... maybe I shouldn't finish that sentence. Now I can look back at it with a better perspective and think that it was a nice challenge.
I also want to say that I have a tremendous respect for the others who completed Drawabox did a much better job than me at it. Before actually doing the lessons, I often thought that they would be much easier than they were. But now I can only be humbled by how difficult it actually is, and how incredible some of the students here are.
Also, the people in the community who take time to help others. They are the MVPs. They rock.
Finally, I wanted to mention one thing that changed that is unrelated to drawing. This is perhaps far more important than all the skills I've developed here, as it was seriously needed for my growth as a human being. It is the ability of being more ok with my mistakes and imperfections. I always felt like I needed to make everything perfect before I could show it to anyone, and this was harming me quite badly, because if there's one thing I'm very good at, it's making mistakes.