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12:38 AM, Thursday April 25th 2024

Hello Rob. Thank you for the critique! I have a question about the rotated boxes. The one I submitted was my second attempt at that exercise. I watched the instruction videos quite a few times, but the instructions for the corner boxes continue to elude me. I literally tried my best with this one. I don't know how to draw the corner boxes. At a certain point Uncomfortable's instructions not to grind and accept where I am at this point in time came to the forefront. Do you have any suggestions on how I can complete those?

Also, I have been drawing with my shoulder. It is actually in quite a bit of pain today due to that. I have had to ice it throughout my work day. Any advice on how to avoid hurting my drawing arm would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

9:46 PM, Thursday April 25th 2024

Don't worry about it. Being able to draw boxes from different angles and rotations will become a lot easier the deeper you get into these lessons and the rotated box exercise is sort of meant to be beyond most beginners abilities to get them to try something they aren't comfortable with.

For your shoulder a little soreness was happening for me at first as well but not that bad. I would definitely practice for less amount of time than you were previously doing until your muscles get used to being used more.

3:15 AM, Friday April 26th 2024
edited at 3:16 AM, Apr 26th 2024

Thank you for the advice for my shoulder! I will work to break up my drawing sessions into shorter periods.

Here is my second attempt at the rotated boxes.

https://imgur.com/a/IBQTbkA

edited at 3:16 AM, Apr 26th 2024
11:12 PM, Friday April 26th 2024

Good job on completing the exercise! You are running into a pretty common issue of not actually rotating your boxes in some cases but instead simply drawing them moving back in perspective. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/21/notrotating Other than that this turned out pretty well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge!

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