I have been informed to redo the challenge with 45-50 additional boxes to follow the rules this time, hopefully this will help be a lesson to help me better understand the great importance of all the instructions. You are free to critique this as well for anything that can be done in the future.
Okay now this is looking better! You've correctly applied your Line extensions this time! I can definitely see improvement throughout your boxes but there are still a few things I want to mention.
First of all: Did you scan these pages or did you take photos? I'm asking because your lines look pretty faded and scratchy So either try to just take regular photos of them so there isn't any kind of editing and sharpening done by your scanning software which might be the cause of it. But if your taking photos or scanning without additional editing another reason might be that you're holding your pen not perpendicular, so at a 90-degree angle, to your paper not allowing the ink to flow properly leading to that faded and scratchy line quality. Another cause might be that your pen is running out of ink, but since this can be seen through your whole submission, so I think this not very likely. So make sure to check whatever is causing the lines to look as faded as they currently do and try to avoid it from now on.
Another point I want to stress is, that you sometimes when one of your lines or angles was of just drew another line in order to correct the old line. Try to avoid that! It will only lead more attention to the mistake itself, rather than fixing anything. If you feel like a line didn't go the way you wanted it to go, just accept it and go with the "wrong" line anyway.
Apart from that I think you made progress and now are ready to tackle Lesson 2, but I would still heavily recommend that you include boxes in your warmup exercises, since you now only have done 50 with the line correction method.
Next steps:
Move on to lesson 2, but keep practicing boxes and everything from lesson 1 as your 10-15min warmups before you start drawing. Explained here: https://youtu.be/6Nj-TQ2AE-0?t=280
it is probably the scanner that is making the issues and at some point sooner or later i may need to get the fineliners as recommended.
And will do, boxes are extremely important for almost everything anyway and much practice can be applied, even when its being constructed for fun thats still mileage.
thank you kindly for the critique.
What kind of pen are you using currently?
BIC, ultra round 0.6
And yes those are the rules... when you go to lesson 2 you warmup with studies from lesson 1, -and for the remainder of tbe course.... 1 and 2 should be studied
I have done plenty of boxes so far and fixed the old line problem, only thing sort of holding onto me is my discouragement for what could have been done better earlier on, something I'm unsure if I ever will accept.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
On the flipside, they tend to be on the cheaper side of things, so if you're just getting started (beginners tend to have poor pressure control), you're probably going to destroy a few pens - going cheaper in that case is not a bad idea.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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