Hi there. It's pretty hard for me to post this stuff when I know it's bad, but I want to take the advice here seriously.
Line control is my biggest issue in my opinion, but I've been practicing it every day and I've also added some images from my 250 box challenge to show how I've improved with that.
Any kind of feedback or critique is greatly appreciated
Hi JackPagan!
I've checked out you submission, and first of all, it looks much better of what you describe!
I wanna start out with your line control, It's not bad, in fact, for a starter it's normal. You will hear this all along DaB, you have to do things at the best of your current ability, and it looks like you are doing that! Remember, the important thing about your lines it's confidence; confidence>accuaracy. Just cement this into your mind.
On the same note, Checking your ellipses I see that most of the time you are going through them 3 times. I supposed that you are doing this to compensate the problem that you say you have about line control. I don't recomend you doing this. You should go through them only two times as it says in the lessons, the reasons it's only two it's for you two make up for some of the ellipse mess on the second pass. But when yo do more than 2 pass, it actually get's messier!
Your boxes exercises in general look good, it seems like you have some previous knowledge on perspective, which is always good and handy. I really like how you went all out with your organic perspective and other exercises! I always recomend newcommers to make the most of every exercise and lesson, fill the page, it's better to make a mess because you did too much, than having blank spaces that you could have taken advantage of, it looks like you are already doing this so I can only tell you to keep it up! it will pay off in the future.
However, it's not everything rosy in the garden, when looking at your organic boxes, I cannot help to notice that a lot of lines don't reach the corners, as it you are afraid of overshooting your lines, and this makes your lines to not look confident. This is normal. It really happens to everyone. though, this doesn't mean that it cannot be fixed! First, I wanna repeat; confidence>accuaracy, you gotta use the ghosting method and when you feel confident, make the line. If it overshoots, it's okay, that gets better over time and practice, what's really important it's that you strive for your lines to look confident!
Also, it's good that you submit this even knowing that you make mistakes, it's really a big step to doing getting better! You will start realizing during DaB that mitakes are the best thing that could happen to us, because if you can see the mistakes, you can see something that you can improve, and if you see something that you can improve, if you work on it, you are going to get better! This is better because you get someone to mark mistakes and tell you how can you improve at them in every single lesson! So, make the most of it.
One last thing, not a big one though. Try to advance to the next lesson or challenge when someone checks your stuff and tells you to. I know you started the 250 box challenge because of enthusiasm and wanting to get better, which are the best qualities to have in this course in my opinion. However, patience it's almost a better quality, specially if you want to get better at art. Obviously patience doesn't appear overnight, you gotta work on it. And as I say, you are waiting for someone to tells you in which ways you can improve, so you can have them in mind on your next step.
I'm gonna mark this lesson as complete, keep on the good work, the enthusiasm, and face up the next challenge with confidence!
Next Steps:
Although you have already start the 250 box challenge, don't restart it, just let me tell you some advice.
This challenge it's all about determination and constancy, try to do it on a daily basis if you can, and you don't just regularly. And always warm up before getting into drawing them, it really helps.
The best of lucks!
Wow, thank you so much. I wasn't expecting such a detailed response, and so quickly.
I'm glad to hear my line control isn't that bad. I think working digitally all the time has had a really negative effect on me when it comes to this stuff. I've already seen progress though from where I stared so I'll just have to keep at it.
Looking back at it I think you're absolutely right about the ellipses. I think it was in the 'How to draw a box 2' video, Uncomfortable points out trying to fix mistakes over and over will just draw attention to them. That seems to be very true and it's something I need to keep in mind.
So I need to keep working on confidence and my accuracy will improve over time with that. I think that's the main thing I really need to drill into my brain.
Next time I'll make sure to get feedback before moving on. I think it was just me putting off showing my mistakes to other people, but I think you're absolutely right that knowing my mistakes is exactly what I need to improve, so the more I can learn before moving forward, the better.
You've also proven to me that taking the time to ask for feedback is absolutely worth it. I really appreciate you helping me out.
I'm very glad you liked my review! regarding the quickness, I usually scroll down to the ones that didn't got reviewed yet, and today I just got lazy xd.
However, I'm glad I pick yours cause I really like your thought process, I really relate to it. Just honestly trying to get better at art, no easy ways or ignoring mistakes, just head on against your insecurities.
I'm just a couple of lessons above you, but let me tell you, this mentality pays off. And those voices that tell you that make you doubt, it's not that they disappear, you just realize how wrong they are and you just ignore them.
Remember to not be so hard on yourself and just keep on lerning and getting better!
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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