How long does getting community critique on the website usually take?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtFundamentals/comments/yocz87/how_long_does_getting_community_critique_on_the/
2022-11-07 04:45
fuckNietzsche
I put up a Lesson 1 submission sometime around the start of August, and am still awaiting critique now in November. On the one hand, I do want to try to complete Drawabox properly (darn that completionist in memissing a few pins won't cripple you!), but at the same time, the longer I wait without critique the less likely it is that I'll be able to move on. In the meanwhile, I've been going through the 250 Boxes challenge so that I don't fall off the wagon, but I don't want to commit if I'll have to stop and redo it in the case that I get asked to redo some of the exercises.
Any advice on either getting critique faster or on whether or not I should commit and ignore the official critiques?
Uncomfortable
2022-11-08 17:09
As there's no real guarantee that you'd ever receive feedback on your community feedback submission (since it relies entirely on other students finding your submission and investing time into giving you feedback), there is an informal critique-exchange program being run by our students on the discord server. I mention this in one of the Lesson 0 videos.
If you jump onto our discord server you can read about how it works in the #critique-exchange pinned messages. Those submitting their Lesson 1 work can generally get added to a list to receive feedback from those who are trying to "earn" feedback for their later lessons/challenges.
fuckNietzsche
2022-11-08 17:27
I see. That's really helpful, and I really hope that I can finish the course this time, because I genuinely love the structure of the course, and the way that the more complicated concepts are broken down into easily digested chunks.
Also, as an aside, thanks a lot for making this art resource, and thank you for also making it free as well. I've learnt so much from the course already, in spite of not having managed to move past Lesson 1, and not just in the surface level of "this is how to draw a line, a box, a person, etc", but also in how to learn how to draw. Having some frame of reference for how long to grind away at a topic and them moving on alone is worth its weight in gold, and has made following along to things like Michael Hampton's Figure Drawing: Design and Invention so much easier and more straightforward than when I first got the book. Again, thank you so much for making this fantastic resource publicly available!
Uncomfortable
2022-11-08 17:55
Happy to help!