Uncomfortable

2015-03-30 23:41

The line weights on that sharpie'd page definitely look much more dynamic - consider that, going forward. I suppose your reasoning for not doing it everywhere else is wise, though in later drawings you should continue to vary your line weights instead of leaving them uniform.

In general though, you're doing fairly well. Plenty of room to grow, but you're catching most of your mistakes.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-01 02:38

Congrats on completing the challenge. I think the critique I gave for your lesson 2 homework applies here too. Use the ghosting technique, slow down and plan your marks. It'd definitely help to take more time to think through everything you're going to do.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-02 22:33

Congrats on completing the challenge. I definitely want to point out that after the first page, your boxes suddenly get really small. It's much easier to get sloppy and to make mistakes when you draw tiny like that, so try to avoid it. Bigger boxes come out looking much more confident, and the lines themselves end up looking finer relative to the size of the box - since on a tiny drawing, lines will immediately start to appear to be very thick and clunky, due to the relationship with the size of the drawing itself.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-02 22:46

Haha, yeah, tedium is the name of the game. You did well though. Glad to see you drew through a lot of the boxes, and played with line weights. Nice work!

Uncomfortable

2015-04-04 19:33

I think the dominos are my favourite. Keep an eye on your near/far plane relationships though. You should definitely go back with a different coloured pen - I noticed that you did in some cases, but you missed quite a bit, so it'd be worth going over it again.

Also, don't forget to use the ghosting technique. Most of your lines are solid and fairly clean, but it might help with the bowing lines, and you have a bit of a tendency to get sloppy near the end.

Anyway, pretty good work. Congrats on completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-04 19:34

Definitely seeing some steady improvement between the beginning and the end. Your comfort level has certainly increased, so I'm pleased to see that. Nice work!

Uncomfortable

2015-04-05 17:36

Well done, I definitely see a good deal of improvement in both your confidence and your eye for perspective throughout the exercise.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-06 00:45

Definitely seeing a lot of improvement. Keep it up!

Uncomfortable

2015-04-06 23:58

Congrats on completing the challenge. Keep up the good work.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-09 22:08

You're either getting way better with the cylinders or getting way worse. I'm hoping the latter (that'd be the case if the ones on page 1 are the later cylinders). I did notice that the vast majority of your cylinders aren't making any use of the minor axis though. The minor axis is super important, because it aligns your ellipses to one another, allowing you to build a believable cylinder between them.

Anyway, I think you're definitely on the right track. Take another stab at lesson 6 - do 4 pages, and we'll see how things have changed.

AND USE THOSE MINOR AXES!

Uncomfortable

2015-04-11 00:52

Tedious as they may be, them's some handsome looking boxes. Very confident. Nice work.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-13 23:43

Nice work. I hope that helped increase your comfort level!

Uncomfortable

2015-04-16 02:49

I'm really glad to see how your lines have become significantly cleaner and more confident as you reach the end of the challenge. Definitely a very nice improvement. Great work!

Uncomfortable

2015-04-18 01:31

Well done! I think you started off at a point where the mistakes in your early boxes were fairly minor and at times hard to notice, but you worked well towards ironing those out. There definitely is progress between the first and last pages, though since the mistakes themselves were small, at times it's harder to notice.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-18 19:17

Looking good. Your corrections definitely show a good understanding of what you're doing right and what's going a bit awry. You may also want to consider playing with the line weights in the future, as right now all your lines are fairly uniform.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-19 18:13

Pretty good. If you ever find yourself having trouble with understanding how the form sits in 3D space, try drawing through it completely (including the lines that you generally wouldn't be able to see).

Uncomfortable

2015-04-20 21:21

When you start off, your boxes aren't bad, but what's generally lacking is confidence. As you progress, you show a marked improvement. You don't seem as uncertain of yourself.

The only thing I'd say you could change is, when you find a line you draw is slightly off, don't correct it (in this case, don't correct it in black). Leave it as it is, adding more ink will draw attention to the issue.

I award you one more banana.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-25 00:00

Good work. Be sure to move onto playing with line weights in the future, though. Also, if you do some more box-practice in the future, instead of just circling your mistakes with the different coloured pen, it may be more helpful to mark in what you think would be more correct.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-25 00:01

It looks good. There's always room to grow, but I think in general your boxes look quite confident, and the line weights come through quite nicely to hold the boxes together.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-27 22:17

I definitely see a lot of improvement over the course of your work. Well done! Just keep an eye on the whole near plane/far plane size relationships. Some of yours are still coming up backwards (with the far plane being bigger), though only just barely.

Uncomfortable

2015-04-28 22:33

Congrats on completing the challenge. I do have a few suggestions though.

The biggest thing I notice is that you definitely made the challenge significantly more difficult by overlapping the boxes. By doing so, you bring them into the same scene (similarly to if you had drawn a frame around them) - which means the amount of perpsective distortion on each one will have to be consistent, which can be tricky to get on top of just working on drawing the boxes themselves. It's best to tackle one problem at a time. These notes explain the idea of consistent perspective.

Also, I am noticing that some of your boxes are showing issues with the near/far plane relationships. The farther plane should never be bigger than the closer one. I go over this in the 'How to draw a box' video included in the challenge post. I'm sure you've given it a look, as with all of the notes I included, but I'd strongly recommend watching it again.

All that said, I just realized when completing lesson 1, you said you'd already completed the challenge. Is this what you were talking about, or is this a new stab at the challenge? The reason I'm asking is because the boxes you drew for lesson 1 were considerably better - so if they were done afterward, they show a marked improvement.

Uncomfortable

2015-05-05 22:39

Nice work! I'm definitely seeing a lot of progress. Here's a couple things to keep in mind though - overlapping your boxes will start complicating things, because as soon as two forms overlap, they exist in the same 'scene', so the perspective distortion between them needs to be consistent. Here's some notes on that issue. When tackling this challenge, it's best to draw them separately, so you're only dealing with the problem of drawing a solid box.

Secondly, don't draw boxes that get cut off on the side of the page. Since you're not drawing the whole thing, it's kind of... arbitrary and pointless.

Anyway, congrats on completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2015-05-06 22:10

Nice work! I definitely see some progress in your confidence throughout, especially at that last page. I'm glad that you feel it started to click.

Uncomfortable

2015-05-06 22:16

Nice work completing the challenge! I definitely notice what you're talking about - often times your boxes kinda come out at very similar orientations, like you're trying to get them to come out different but they tend to default to what you're comfortable with.

One exercise I've seen people do is drawing a box in the center of your page, and then drawing boxes next to it that slowly rotate on a particular axis in regular intervals. Dealing with intervals like that might help force your brain to deal with a wide variety of angles. Ultimately some will come out poorly since you're not comfortable with them, but that's just part of the game. You've gotta make mistakes, and right now it looks like you're terrified of letting that happen.

Uncomfortable

2015-05-17 18:33

I definitely see some improvement throughout. I do think though that it might be in your best interest to, when practicing this on your own, draw through some of the boxes to get a better understanding of how big that far plane really is relative to the closer one. Right now, the far plane is usually composed of just two lines, so we have to imagine how big it is. Drawing through it will help you get a better understanding of how it all comes together.

Anyway, congrats on completing the exercise.

Uncomfortable

2015-05-23 00:38

Nice work! Congrats on completing the challenge. Just keep an eye on situations like this, where some of your angles go a bit out of whack.

Uncomfortable

2015-05-23 18:11

I can definitely see that you explored quite a bit - with different ways of drawing boxes incorrectly, and figuring out what exactly made them wrong. The results are that you have made some improvement, and while you have some more room to grow, you are definitely moving in the right direction. So congrats on completing the challenge!

Uncomfortable

2015-05-26 22:00

Fantastic work. I was actually looking at what you'd posted to twitter, earlier today. Your boxes are solid, and your corrections are right on point. I'm also really glad to see that you experimented with line weight - it definitely helped make your boxes look much more dynamic.

Uncomfortable

2015-05-27 22:01

Congrats on completing the challenge! I must say though, I'm seeing a whole lot of signs of rushing. Don't forget that the core of all of these lessons is the idea of splitting up the process of drawing a line into three phases.

1. Identify what kind of mark you need. Where does it begin, where does it end, is it straight or curved, etc.

2. Prepare by finding the most comfortable angle of approach (rotating your page if necessary). Ghost through the motion as many times as you need until the motion feels comfortable and familiar.

3. The last 10% of the process, continue ghosting through the motion and finally touch the pen to the page and draw the mark in a single consistent and smooth stroke.

It takes a long time at first, but your lines will be straighter, and you'll have fewer messes.

Uncomfortable

2015-05-27 22:47

Good work completing the challenge. I must say though, it's getting pretty muddy there. The lines seem rather thick, and with the corrections done in the same colour, it all gets very busy. For the most part you do seem to be making progress though. I do want to make a suggestion though - when doing this kind of exercise, avoid overlapping the boxes. It's best to tackle one problem at a time, and overlapping multiple boxes introduces other complications.

Uncomfortable

2015-06-01 22:13

Nice work. I like that as you progressed you started experimenting with your line weights. It's true that there's a lot of rather dramatic perspective distortions here, but they still look correct within their own isolated scopes. Of course, if they were in the same scene they'd be inconsistent, but since they're not, you're all good.

Uncomfortable

2015-06-06 00:08

Congrats on completing the challenge. Your line quality by the end is looking really nice, though you still need to work on the forms themselves. Though they look really confident (which goes a long way to convincing the viewer that they're right), you have a tendency to draw the far plane larger than the near one.

Uncomfortable

2015-06-08 18:27

Good work on completing the challenge. I do have one thing to point out though, that you may or may not have noticed. The vast majority of your boxes are seen from an upwards angle - the orientations are fairly similar. You may want to try varying it up a little more in the future so you don't get super comfortable with one orientation, and not with others.

I've seen some people draw a series of boxes, gradually turning more and more with each subsequent box. You may want to try something staggered like that so each time you're forced to turn it more than the last.

Uncomfortable

2015-06-10 20:01

Nice progression. Your corrections generally seem on point. You are still struggling a bit with making the far planes a little smaller than the near planes, but you are improving. Keep it up.

urbanrazor

2015-06-14 21:03

Hmm, hope it didn't go in the spam filter again

Uncomfortable

2015-06-14 21:42

:P It did end up in the spam filter again. I have no idea why it keeps targeting you.. did you do something in a previous life?

Anyway, your boxes look solid. I see a definite increase in your confidence as you progress. Keep it up!

Uncomfortable

2015-06-14 18:32

Fantastic. The challenges are open to anyone who wishes to do them - at times I do recommend them specifically to certain people because they need the extra work, but it is of benefit to everyone.

Usually I don't recommend drawing the boxes overlapping, largely because it adds an extra dimension of complexity (since now all the boxes have to have similar levels of perspective distortion, since by overlapping they automatically exist in the same scene/environment). That said, you handled it very well, despite the added complexity.

Great work.

Uncomfortable

2015-06-15 22:10

Nice work. Confident lines, nice variation on line weight. Keep it up!

Uncomfortable

2015-06-16 00:18

To be honest, your question was confusing as all hell. I did what I could with what you said in explaining how a box rotation works, but more than anything it is something you are going to have to discover by trying it.

I'm guessing the thing you were describing in terms of rotating something very slightly relative to its neighbour was along the lines of this sort of thing. Try and use that as reference and attempt it yourself.

It's much easier to explain what you did wrong, rather than to explain the specifics of how to do something as complex as this.

Uncomfortable

2015-06-15 23:28

You most certainly did rush through them. I'm glad to see that you've tried to complete the challenge, but rushing through them and thinking of it as a number to hit is not going to show very much improvement. When you draw the boxes, you need to consider the lessons and the notes and put your full attention on each one. If you do not put your all into each box, you will improve much more slowly.

I really hope you'll give this challenge another shot, and the time it deserves. Even if you draw only 10 boxes a day - but put your full effort into them - you'll see far more improvement over the course of 25 days.

Uncomfortable

2015-06-19 23:07

Generally quite well done. I do notice that (as I mentioned in your lesson 2 critique) that you sometimes have a tendency to draw the far plane larger than your near plane. You don't do this nearly as often here, but I do think you may want to draw through your boxes completely for a spell just to get used to the relationship between how you angle your lines and how that builds the far plane. Since the far plane isn't actually drawn in its entirety normally, it becomes difficult to gauge. Drawing through the cube (meaning drawing the far plane as well) will help you assess that more carefully.

Anywho, congrats on completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2015-06-24 19:42

Nice work completing the challenge. There is a major issue that you're exhibiting though, and it probably is what you're noticing with the boxes looking awkward. The issue is that your far planes on your box are generally larger than your near planes - which directly contradicts the rules of perspective. When using the Y method, you need to be mindful of in which direction your other lines (the ones you draw after the Y) are going to be converging.

Try drawing through your boxes - that is, drawing all the lines that compose the box, as if the box itself were see-through. That'll help you compare the size relationships between the near and far planes.

Anyway, as you completed the challenge, I'll mark it finished - but be mindful of that mistake, you're making it rather often.

Uncomfortable

2015-06-25 19:30

Well, you certainly did complete the challenge. I think your judgment may be correct though. You may benefit from trying to draw through some of the boxes - like, drawing them as though they were transparent, so you can see all the lines of the box. This will allow you to better assess the relationship between the near and far planes of your boxes. It tends to make it easier to spot major problems.

Other areas you may want to explore is the use of line weight - some of the notes in the challenge post relate to this, so be sure to reread them.

Uncomfortable

2015-06-26 19:51

I'm glad to see how your confidence and line quality improves over the course of the lesson. Your corrections generally show a good sense of what you should be aiming for, even if you can't quite hit it just yet. You're going in the right direction, keep it up!

Uncomfortable

2015-06-28 17:19

Nice work completing the challenge. Generally you do show an increase in the confidence of your lines, but there is one thing I notice throughout - your size relationships between the near and far planes of your boxes are not always correct. As I explain in the video, the far plane should always be smaller than the near plane. The amount by which it is smaller can be minimal, but it should always be smaller. I see here and there that you draw your far plane larger. For example, 8, 81, 89, 96, 178, 241, 245. There are others, but I just picked those I saw at a glance. The trick to overcoming this is to make yourself more aware of what you're doing. Drawing through your boxes completely (drawing all the lines as if the box were transparent) helps considerably, because you actually define that far plane with all four edges. It's easy to make the mistake when you're only defining two edges of the far planes.

Feel free to use coloured felt tip pens, as long as they're not something unreadable like.. yellow. Also, it's perfectly fine not to grind on the boxes constantly for days with nothing in between. Taking breaks is encouraged.

Uncomfortable

2015-06-30 19:41

Congrats on completing the challenge. You did pretty well - just a couple things to note:

• Here and there, you're reversing your near/far plane relationship (213, 230, 209). If you catch yourself doing this often, try drawing through your boxes as though they were transparent. Marking out all of the lines that make up the box will give you a better comparison of your near/far planes.

• You should generally draw bigger. Right now your pen tip is very large relative to the size of your individual boxes. It tends to make things look clunky.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-01 16:44

You're definitely moving in the right direction. Over the course of the challenge you make a few good decisions that ultimately help you overall - one of them being increasing the size of the boxes you draw. The smaller you draw, the bigger the tip of your pen is relative to the drawing, so on a smaller drawing the lines will look heavy and clunky. Drawing larger lets you be a little more subtle and nuanced with your lines.

I did want to point out however that there's two major areas where you could improve:

• Here and there (like box 250) you reverse the size relationship of the near and far planes, and end up drawing the far plane as larger than the nearer one. Drawing through your boxes (as if it was transparent, so you can see all the lines) will help you understand the size of the far plane, as right now it's only defined by two out of the four lines.

• When you make a mistake, the natural response is to draw another line over it as a correction. This, unfortunately, adds more ink to that area, increasing the contrast and drawing the viewer's eye right to your blunder. So, the correct response is to just leave it alone.

Overall, I think you'll benefit a lot from doing lesson 1 (honestly I usually intend for people to start there, and then I point them to the 250 box challenge if they need it), as it covers helpful techniques like ghosting through your lines.

Either way, congrats on completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-02 19:59

Your boxes are definitely looking way more confident and solid now. They were pretty decent beforehand, but the little bit of uncertainty I was noticing seems to be gone, and that near/far relationship thing I mentioned seems to have been corrected. Nice work.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-05 16:57

Nice work. Early on, your linework seems a bit shoddy (I'm guessing you're trying to add weight to the external lines, but they don't really come together so it looks kind of messy) but you improve considerably in that throughout the challenge. Your corrections in the other coloured pen are generally on point, so you seem to know what you should be aiming for, it's just a matter of practice. The boxes are looking pretty solid though, and I like your line weights near the end of the set.

As for your questions,

• Ghosting itself is really meant to help people draw longer lines, so ghosting out of the wrist defeats that purpose. Draw from the wrist when you need to do shorter lines for fine detail, but when you need a longer line, it's best to draw from the elbow or shoulder.

• How do you deal with the frustration? Honestly, there's nothing you can do but get over it. Mistakes happen, just leave it alone and move on. Getting worked up over it will only hold you back.

• You can check out my portfolio site.

• Move onto lesson 2.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-07 20:02

I definitely see a great deal of improvement, especially in the last two pages. Your confidence has definitely increased, as has your general sense of understanding when it comes to these simple forms and how they exist in 3D space. Your corrections also generally seem to be accurate.

There's definitely more room to grow, but you're totally on the right track. Nice work!

Uncomfortable

2015-07-07 22:08

Generally I see a lot of improvement throughout the set. Near the end, you definitely get much more confident with your line weights, and you seem to have a better sense of the size relationship between the near/far plane. You slip up here and there, and have some with some slightly wacky angles (232, 218, etc), but it's definitely much better. Keep it up!

Also, that's a nice tidbit of information.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-10 19:53

For the rest of the challenge I kept the paper straight, which made it even more challenging. Do you think I should continue to draw with a straight paper, or does it not matter for now?

I really don't think it's going to help to make something that is already challenging even more complex. Rotating your page is something that helps you immensely when attempting to get comfortable with the drawing motion required to make a particular mark. That's part of the core of the whole ghosting technique which you should be using whenever doing any sort of freehand drawing. Limiting yourself from doing that is going to take something that is already hard for you and make it twice as hard.

Focus on dealing with one problem at a time. It can definitely be argued that there is great benefit from learning to draw a straight line at any angle of approach, but it certainly isn't worth much if it hinders you from learning to draw a straight line at only one angle. Baby steps!

Anyway, on that same topic, while it's great to listen to many sources and learn from many places, if you are doing an exercise that is a part of one particular body of lessons, it is important that you follow that body of lessons to a tee and not try to tweak the methodology while you are practicing it. By doing so you risk missing key points that you might not fully grasp until you are completely finished, and in a position to look at everything that was covered as a whole.

At that point, once you can step back and understand how everything fits together, you can blend what you've learned with other elements, tossing out things that simply didn't work with you and keeping what did.

Anyway, looking at your boxes, you're definitely making progress but there is room to grow. I very much think you should try drawing through your boxes more - that is, drawing all of the lines as though the box itself were transparent. This is because I'm seeing a lot of instances where you're reversing the size relationship between the near/far planes (as explained in the video), like 242 and 249. You've also got some issues with your angles - many of your boxes do not appear to be constructed from right angles, so they look somewhat skewed. Those are definitely things you'll have to work on.

Anyway, congrats on completing the challenge - though I hope you'll continue to practice these simple box exercises as you continue to move forward through the other lessons.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-12 14:31

I'm going to mark the challenge as complete, but it is definitely in your best interest to go back and correct things in red. I can see many cases where your far plane comes out bigger than your near plane (240, 238, 246, 207, etc). Your lines are definitely coming out more confidently though, so there has been some improvement over the course of the 250 boxes.

Generally when I see people making that size-relationship mistake often, I recommend that they draw through the boxes completely for a time. That is, draw all the lines of the box, as though the box were transparent. This will allow you to define each plane of the box explicitly, which will in turn show you the size relationships between them.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-12 15:10

I can still make out most of your pencil corrections, and they seem to be correct. The ones where you just circle the issue aren't really of much value of course, but I did notice a few where you redrew the lines, which were definitely more useful.

The changes are subtle, but I think I can see a general increase in your confidence by the end. You do a good job of keeping your near/far plane size relationships straight, and your angles are generally correct more often by the end.

Since a lot of your boxes show some fairly extreme perspective, I do want to remind you that when drawing a scene with many forms, the rate of perspective distortion (how quickly things get smaller relative to how far away from the viewer they are) will have to be consistent. Usually this means that if a box that's close up has some extreme perspective to it, something just a little further away will end up being much smaller than one might expect. The solution to this is, when drawing many forms in one scene, is generally to keep the perspective distortion less dramatic and extreme. Shallower perspective is often much easier to deal with. It also implies a smaller scale in general, while more extreme perspective immediately starts to read as tall-building-scale.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-13 20:03

Definitely a big improvement throughout the set. I do want to point out though that if you feel you're getting sloppy, don't push through it. Stop and take a break. Practicing while you're sloppy and unable to focus risks training bad habits.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-14 19:42

Very nice! Great confidence, and your forms (and corrections) seem to generally be on point. Keep up the good work!

Uncomfortable

2015-07-17 19:46

Nice line weights. I am noticing a lot of situations where your near/far plane size relationships are not correct however. Always remember that the further plane should be smaller than the closer one, never the reverse. One way to identify this problem more readily is to practice drawing through your boxes (as if they were invisible), so you can define all six lines and the planes that lie between them. When you don't draw through your boxes, it becomes more difficult to assess the size of the far plane, since you can only see two of the lines that define it.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-18 15:35

Yep, you're on the right track. Plenty of room to grow, but that's all practice. When correcting, don't bother focusing on areas where the lines are just messy, I don't really care about instances where you tried to draw a specific line and failed. I'm more interested in places where the line you intended to draw simply wasn't correct. In that situation, you'd draw the more correct line with the different coloured pen.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-21 19:36

I definitely see improvement in your general confidence. There's room to grow for sure, but that's to be expected. I think you've earned yourself a break, so go ahead and tackle lesson 2 again when you feel ready.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-22 19:45

The consistency of your lines definitely seems to improve throughout the set, growing straighter as you progress. Your forms in general and the corrections seem to be on point. It is too bad that you forgot about line weights, but there's always time to tackle them later. Congrats on completing the challenge!

Uncomfortable

2015-07-25 21:14

I do see some improvement over the boxes. There's a couple things I want to suggest that will help you improve even more.

First off, don't just circle your mistakes - in that different coloured pen, actually draw the correct line. Don't worry about issues where the line overshoots or things like that. We're interested in the mistakes where you drew the wrong line, at the wrong angle.

Secondly, you should definitely practice drawing through your boxes more. That means drawing all six lines for each box, as though it were transparent. Right now, the far plane is only defined by two lines, instead of the full four. Because of this, you often make the mistake of drawing your far plane larger than the near plane, as explained in the video.

Anyway, congrats on completing the challenge. Definitely making progress, but you've still got a fair bit of room to grow.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-26 15:21

Great improvement! You definitely make huge leaps and bounds throughout the set, and after that little break, your general confidence improves significantly. Nice work!

Uncomfortable

2015-07-27 22:35

I definitely see a significant increase in the solidity and confidence of your boxes throughout the set. One thing I do want to recommend however is that instead of just circling lines you think are wrong, correct them. Identifying mistakes isn't worth much if you don't go back and figure out what the correct line would be.

Anyway, good work on completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-29 22:09

I definitely see some improvement here, especially with your general confidence and the quality of your lines. I do want to recommend that you practice a bit by drawing through your boxes completely - that is, drawing all six lines as if the box were transparent. The reason being, I notice various instances (like 226, 234, etc.) where your far planes come out larger than your near planes. Drawing all the lines of the box will help because it will allow you to define each plane with the full four lines, whereas right now the far planes are only defined by two.

Still, great work completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-31 20:00

Nice work. You definitely seem to be getting bolder and more confident. If you do a similar challenge in the future though, in terms of marking your mistakes, don't worry about the issues where a line you drew just went off mark. Focus on the ones where the line you intended to draw was incorrect. Then, instead of circling the mistake, actually draw the correct one. I saw that you did this in a few places, but not others.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-31 22:24

Definitely some improvement in your confidence. Still gotta watch out for a few situations where the far plane comes out larger than the near plane (241, 245, etc). Also, there are some techniques in lesson 1 that will really help you deal draw your lines more cleanly. When you do that lesson, focus on the ghosting technique - rather than just an exercise, it's an approach to drawing that should be applied everywhere. It'll help you draw more accurate and smoother lines in one go.

Anyway, nice work on completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2015-08-01 16:22

I'm going to mark this challenge as complete, because since it's a challenge it doesn't really warrant much in the way of critique.

In case you haven't had the chance to see it, that I made an announcement about critiques in august being limited to patreon supporters only, since I'm totally swamped with work from my full-time job this month. Regular free critiques will resume on September 1st.

If you do happen to be a patreon supporter though, send me a message via Patreon with your Reddit username so I know to associate the two accounts.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Uncomfortable

2015-08-02 15:23

Unfortunately, I recently made an announcement about critiques in August being limited to patreon supporters only, since I'm totally swamped with work from my full-time job this month. Regular free critiques will resume on September 1st.

If you do happen to be a patreon supporter though, send me a message via Patreon with your Reddit username so I know to associate the two accounts.

I will however mark this challenge as complete, since it doesn't require any indepth critique. All I want to remind you is that when you correct with a different pen, don't just circle your mistakes. Draw the correct line. Also, review the ghosting technique from lesson 1.

Uncomfortable

2015-08-03 15:12

Unfortunately, I recently made an announcement about critiques in August being limited to patreon supporters only, since I'm totally swamped with work from my full-time job this month. Regular free critiques will resume on September 1st.

If you do happen to be a patreon supporter though, send me a message via Patreon with your Reddit username so I know to associate the two accounts.

However, since the 250 box challenge doesn't generally need a whole lot of critique, I'll go ahead and mark it as complete. You definitely seem to show a marked improvement over the course of the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2015-08-04 00:14

I definitely see some progress throughout this set. You seem to be getting more comfortable with the idea of rotating the forms around in space.

There's only one thing I want to mention - when going over with a different coloured pen, instead of just circling the problematic lines, actually draw in the correct one. Also, don't worry about instances where you overshot a line, or your hand went a bit crazy. Instead, focus on lines where your intention itself was incorrect. Your ability to control your hand will improve with time, so what we want to solidify right now is the understanding of form itself. It's possible to know what the correct line is, and simply fumble when attempting to draw it.

Anyway, I'll mark this challenge as complete! Nice work.

Uncomfortable

2015-08-06 01:01

Unfortunately, I recently made an announcement about critiques in August being limited to patreon supporters only, since I'm totally swamped with work from my full-time job this month. Regular free critiques will resume on September 1st.

If you do happen to be a patreon supporter though, send me a message via Patreon with your Reddit username so I know to associate the two accounts.

I will however mark this challenge as complete, since it doesn't require any indepth critique. The only thing that I want to remark is that you should get used to drawing larger. Smaller drawings will often restrict the motion of your arm and cause the thickness of the line to be quite large in relation to the size of the drawing, making it look somewhat clunky.

Uncomfortable

2015-08-07 01:59

You seem to be getting the hang of it. I'm glad to see that you drew through a great deal of the boxes. The only thing I want to pick on you for is the sloppy cross-hatching near the end. Generally though, you did a solid job.

Uncomfortable

2015-08-19 01:13

You're making some definite headway. One fundamental thing you should work on though is the lines themselves - most of them come out well, but I do notice some arcing and bowing to some of them, which compromises the solidity of your forms. You always want to aim for straight, and put lots of time into ghosting through the drawing motion to achieve that goal.

Some people do however find that when they ghost a line, they have a tendency to arc in a particular direction. In that case, try to aim for a line that arcs slightly in the opposite direction. This may compensate for your natural tendency, resulting in a straighter line. Definitely something to experiment with. At the end of the day, knowing what your tendencies are is important, because once you acknowledge and recognize them, you can compensate and correct over time.

Anyway, congratulations on completing the challenge. Kindly mop up your brain-goop before someone steps in it.

Uncomfortable

2015-08-22 01:36

Pretty nice work. You're definitely getting confident with your lines. I did notice however that most, if not all of your boxes are showing some really dramatic perspective. It's good to practice that, but you should also allow yourself to construct boxes that use a shallower perspective - that is, boxes where the far plane is only a little smaller than the near plane.

When you draw many forms in the same scene, you're going to end up making use of shallower perspective more often, because if everything's got super dramatic perspective on it, it'll look weird as hell.

Anyway, good job completing the challenge. Keep it up.

Uncomfortable

2015-08-23 20:09

Yeah, generally with all of the homework, it's best to take breaks and know your limits. I notice here that your work is generally pretty solid up to the second last page - then on the last page, it kind of gets sloppy. If you ever get tired, stop and do something else. I know it's not a good habit as far as getting shit done goes, but for now we want to focus on doing the absolute best we can. After all, you can either do something quickly, or you can do it well - so lets focus on doing it well.

Anyway, you still did a pretty solid job, and aside from some of the ones on the last page, you're clearly getting a hang of constructing these simple forms. Congrats on completing the challenge.