Uncomfortable

2015-07-29 21:21

Absolutely. This will go in effect August 1st,so you have tomorrow and Friday to submit your homework.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-30 14:48

Yup. There always are one or two people who take advantage of the system, pledging and then removing their pledge once they've acquired whatever they wanted (extra videos, critique, whatever). At least with the critiques I'll actually know who is guilty of that, not that I'd really do anything aside from shake my head in disappointment.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-30 17:54

I try not to think about it.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-31 12:55

It's kind of tricky. Generally I discourage people from moving ahead before having the lesson marked as complete, because there may be problems occurring in the first lesson that then carry over to the second - so if you wait to get the critique on that first lesson, you'll be able to avoid those mistakes the second time around.

Obviously in this particular case that becomes a lot more unreasonable. I'd say go ahead and go through each lesson one week at a time, but know that when I give critiques, I often ask for parts to be redone, and that when you actually submit the homework in September, submit it one at a time - like, submit lesson 1, then wait for the critique. Then submit lesson 2, and wait again.

I definitely will recommend however, that before doing each lesson, read the lesson carefully (obviously) and also try and look through some of the homework other people have submitted. It'll give you a good sense of what common mistakes you should be avoiding.

Uncomfortable

2015-07-31 23:25

Yeah, I figured this would really mess up the plans of at least a few people. Still, you're young, you can afford to wait a month :P

Until then, be sure to flip through the homework others have submitted. There's a fairly limited number of mistakes people have been able to make, so you should be able to see what kind of things I've drawn focus to in other peoples' submissions.

Uncomfortable

2015-08-01 16:25

Haha, thanks. I do actually have a bit of recovery time included in the semi-hiatus. I'm heading back to my home town to pass out for a few days near the end of the month.

Uncomfortable

2015-08-08 15:03

I tried that to a small extent, with a couple of exceptional students. While these few people were helpful for a time, it's difficult to expect anyone to devote the time and regularity required to really having an impact on my workload.

I did once intend to build the homework submission and critiques into the drawabox website (I was planning to redevelop it completely, though now it doesn't seem entirely worth the trouble), so I could build my own infrastructure for keeping track of which submissions need to be critiqued (there's a good chance of submissions falling through the cracks when you have people sharing the responsibility), or even creating a tier of "exemplary" students who, on a per-lesson basis, would gain the ability to critique and grade other students, while I focused on patreon contributors or something like that.

That concept kinda fell by the wayside though, because I have yet to determine what I could offer those 'exemplary' students in return for consistently critiquing others' work. After all, if you expect people to do things for nothing, you'll naturally be disappointed with the results. People do have a tendency to want to help others, but that motivation tends to come in bursts, and it's only fair to acknowledge that they have their own lives and personal endeavors.

Uncomfortable

2015-08-11 14:49

There's a list of all the lessons, organized into sets, in the sidebar. If the app you're using doesn't allow you to view the sidebar, the same list can be found on http://drawabox.com (where the lessons are hosted anyway).

In February, I started rewriting the lessons into more comprehensive articles, so the oldest posts here are the previous versions of the lessons, and are outdated.

Uncomfortable

2015-08-23 18:16

Haha, thanks- I'll keep that in mind.