Hi Arahel85, I was in a similar boat. I wasn't asked to completely redo lesson 3, but I also struggled to continue with the course after Uncomfortable said "parts of your submission were so bad I almost gave up on the critique and just made you redo everything." Of course that's not what he wrote, but that's how I read it. Even after he clarified I had to take a break from drawabox before I was able to properly reframe things.

What I eventually realised is that this is not about the quality of the drawings. In fact it's the opposite because a lot of the ways in which we deviate from the instructions actually result in better drawings, at least in the short term. You can see that mentioned this in his feedback to you:

Yes, it may lessen your accuracy and result in your line weight separating from the initial mark, but there are two things to keep in mind for this:

...everything we do in this course is an exercise - so if you're going to make mistakes, in order to learn from those mistakes, there's no better place to do it than in your homework.

You do have concrete steps to take. You don't need to come back with gorgeous masterpieces or fundamentally re-evaluate your understanding of the material. Uncomfortable just wants to see that you're doing all you can to follow the instructions. If you apply everything he said in the critique he gave you I'm sure you'll pass even if it looks bad. You can definitely try to apply lineweight in a single stroke, you can certainly include a minor axis when building a plant pot and it doesn't take any extra skill to resist drawing additional lines when constructing branches.

I think the reason Uncomfortable is so strict with the lesson 3 critiques is that it's an opportunity to drive home that these are exercises first and foremost and making nice pictures takes a distant second to closely following the instructions.

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Well, there is a lot to say to keep this as short as possible, why did you start drawing? if I had to guess because you had fun with it.

Although drawbox has a pretty rigorous method of teaching you the fundamentals, it is still about drawing at the end of the day.

I urge you to find the fun in all the exercises you do, doing lesson 3, draw plants in your free time, observe leaves in real life. Follow the instructions in lessons like instructed but always do them in a way, where you do not hate your life.

Remember drawing takes practice and patience, be kind to yourself and enjoy yourself , and I am sure you will do just fine.Hope this helps

Cheers,

I just started lesson 3. I can almost guarantee I will need revisions. The curriculum difficulty spikes a lot in lesson 3.

Lesson 3 asks you to apply the material of the previous lessons all simultaneously. It is possible to at least acknowledge all that material at this point, but it is quite difficult. You will need to slow down and I am willing to bet most Patreon-track students have revisions of at least some magnitude here.

You have it in your mind that because you were asked to re-do the lesson, there is something wrong with you, either as a student learning or as an artist. There is not. What it means is you missed some core concepts in the lessons. Look over the critique and watch each lesson video again. They wouldn't ask for you to redo something if they thought you had fully absorbed the lesson. When you do this, keep in mind the 50% rule. If you are struggling mentally, change it to the 2/3 or 75% rule. Do your best to make sure you look forward to drawing every day, or at the very least that you aren't dreading it.