Hey there, congratz on finishing the first lesson. A fellow newbie here, so while I do think I have valuable feedback - keep in mind that I am also a beginner within the course.
Wonderful work, seems like you got most of the concepts right from the get go. Great line quality, wonderful accuracy for a beginner and a lot of variety and experimentation in your exercises, keep it up - it lets you test the extremes to see how far can you go before things break.
Amazing improvements within the perspective related exercises - seems like trying to place things within 3D space really got you going.
Before moving on to the 250 box challenge, I'll ask you for a single revision page and I want you to note a couple of things:
Look at your Rough Perspective, Rotated Boxes and Organic Perspective pages. Note how much you repeat a line, there are many lines that you drew over 2 or even 4 times to try and fix it - this should be avoided.
Once you make a mark, no matter how good or bad it is, leave it. Unless it is an accidental scratch or a line that goes in a completely opposite direction, just keep the line and move on.
Remember the explanation in the Ghosted Lines exercise, I encourage you to read through it again to remind yourself of this mentality.
When you place two dots between which to plot a line, you test your perception of space, where the line should be relative to the space around it, which you later reinforce with ghosting. When you make a mark, it is a test of your preparation - the placement of the dots, the ghosting, and the confidence of your line making.
When you go over the line over and over and over again, you hide those mistakes. That is the exact thing we need to avoid, because we need to later look at the line we made and look at what went wrong - did I go too fast? Did I place the dots incorrectly? Did I stop about 70% through? Did I overshoot and made the line double it's length? Was I wobbly, did I arch?
All of those questions need to be asked and kept in mind, and by erasing your mistakes with repeating your lines - you also make it hard for yourself to actually see where you need to improve.
You'll fix your mistakes by making a new, better line somewhere else.
Plus, it just puts your mind at ease. When you stress over every line and try to fix it, you spend way too much time on each line, and it will just increase the stress and have a negative effect on your performance. Put a line, and leave it. If you catch yourself making another one on top, that's alright - just remind yourself "whoops, one line only."
And again, congratulations on the tremendous work, it takes quite a bit of mental and physical energy to finish this. Be proud of yourself, there is what to be proud of.
Next Steps:
Amazing work, just one step before moving on:
I'm asking you to do this exercise not because there is anything wrong with it (in fact you had some amazing results), but for you to really try and stick to the "one mark" rule. Keep the above text in mind, go over the Ghosted Lines article again, and take breaks whenever you notice that you start worrying too much about each line.
After this, give yourself credit - you have finished a whole Drawabox lesson and improved amazingly. Take a break, have a small celebration, and move to the 250 box challenge!
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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