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9:54 PM, Wednesday March 9th 2022

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.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
2:10 AM, Thursday March 9th 2023

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

5:30 PM, Thursday March 9th 2023

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.

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