Ok, I totally fell out of drawing for a few months. But I'm in the process of taking control of my life and growing discipline, and I'm ready to start drawing consistently.
I hope it's fine to just continue like I didn't just take a 5 month break, but if I have to restart I understand.
Welcome back.
There's a few issues here I'll address quickly and then whether you should restart or not afterwards.
Your lines are lacking confidence so they end up wobbling at times.
You're drawing quite small, drawing larger is recommended so that it helps you become more comfortable working from the shoulder and it allows you to see your mistakes more clearly.
You're not extending your lines towards your vanishing points which means you're not getting nearly as much information about how to improve your boxes as you could be.
Now to address the topic of restarting.
While we leave it up to students as to whether or not they want to restart, it is very important that they review the previous material to make sure they do not forget any instructions when doing these exercises as part of their regular warmup routine. If you're too worried that you've forgotten a ton, and want to avoid the possibility of stumbling into more redos here and there, starting over may not be a bad bet, but it all depends on how much you remember. If you do choose to start over from Lesson 1, then you'll be able to get through the 250 box challenge by drawing just a new set of 50, rather than the whole 250.
If you're confident that you can continue moving forward and don't need to restart + do an additional 50 boxes then I'll still be asking you to draw an additional 15 boxes seeing as how there are currently issues with the ones you've just provided.
Regardless of your choice, welcome back and I hope you manage to achieve your goals. I look forward to seeing your future work whichever route you take.
Next Steps:
15 more boxes please.
Hi, I'm wondering about starting DAB again with official critique. If I were to do that, would I be required to start from the beginning again? I haven't done any for a year.
Thanks, Daniel
First of all, welcome back.
You wouldn't be required to start from the beginning in terms of submissions but I would recommend at the very least reading through and watching the videos again, then maybe doing a page of each exercise just to shake some of the rust off.
Seeing as how each exercise/lesson builds off the previous and it's been a while some of the things we'd expect you to keep in mind may understandably not be remembered as well as they could be.
Other than that all that is required is you do the revisions that were assigned to you last, in this case the 15 boxes I had asked for. If they show an understanding of the course material and what was asked of you in your critique and revisions then I'd mark it complete and move you on to the next lesson.
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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