Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
12:24 AM, Monday March 2nd 2020
This was done in a 7" x 7" sketchbook.
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4:39 PM, Tuesday March 3rd 2020
Looks pretty good!
However, some of your lines do look kind of shaky. I recommend that you try making your lines with a little more speed.
(https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/8/wobbling)
Or it could just be the fact that you're doing this in a sketchbook, rather than on a plain single sheet of paper like Uncomfortable recommends you to do. It's easier to make lines on a flat surface rather than an elevated one.
12:06 AM, Wednesday March 4th 2020
Thank you very much for your time and response! I will try to do that for the 250 box challenge. I didn't see where he recommended loose paper, so I will use that for the challenge.
I very much appreciate the response and I will keep going forward with these. The rotated box and organic perspective were (unsurprisingly) the hardest for me, and I found myself looking at the example for the rotated perspective quite a bit. Is this bad? I am wondering if I should just keep going forward or try it one more time without the reference.
Thank you very much.
7:02 AM, Wednesday March 4th 2020
He mentions what materials to use in Lesson 0, the 'Required/Recommended Tools' section.
I've actaully started Draw-a-box quite a while ago, but I had to stop due to some personal problems.
And I just so happened to stop at the rotated boxes exercise.
Although I may not have done that specific exercise, I had a similar problem with the rough perspective exercise. I could not understand where I had to start or end my lines, therefore I would use other people's submissions and other examples to compare my work to.
However, looking back on it, I should have looked at references differently. Instead of trying to look between other submissions and my own work, I should have looked at correct examples before I started the exercise, and then stop using them as soon as I started it. This way of looking at references seems more helpful because you won't be frustrated if your work isn't up to par with your example(as you would be contantly staring at it throughout the entire process), and it still allows you to make mistakes when doing the exercise. As Uncomfortable mentioned before, we learn best from our mistakes and failures. It's better if it turns out ugly and you learn something, rather than trying to make it look pretty and learn nothing at all.
Uncomfortable even states at the beginning of the rotated boxes exercise that he doesn't expect you to do that well on it. It's difficult on purpose.
And remember, even if you get some things wrong, it's fine. There's no need to grind. As long as you get the general idea or concept of the exercise, it should be good enough to continue.
(With the approval of the community too of course)
12:10 AM, Thursday March 5th 2020
Thanks! I actually have some experience drawing, though that is mostly in figures and not strict perspective. I hope for this entire course to help me with all of my drawings and that I may get a job as an illustrator in the future.
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4:32 PM, Sunday August 23rd 2020
I see you've already had feedback. Congrats on completing this and the 250 box challenge!
I noticed you had similar feedback on the 250 box challenge on wobbly lines. I tend to have the same issue, but try to be aware that the main point is confidence and accuracy comes second. Focus on getting the line straight and confident and the rest will come with time (or so I'm told XD)
I'm only commenting to mark as complete.
Good luck with lesson 2!
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250 box challenge already complete. On to Lesson 2!
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