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Thanks for making this critique available. I was struck by how much you saw that I didn't. Amazing.

Maybe it's not the drawing, but the pressure of homework, or drawing what somebody else tells you to draw rather that drawing for the joy of it. Or maybe it's not a good career choice for you but rather a leisure time thing. Some of my very best classes were taught by professors who made incredible drawings to illustrate their lessons. Maybe they didn't want the pressure of trying to earn a living with art. I became a nurse, so there has never been pressure to perform with my art. (which I hated). Good luck with this - sometimes you feel worse about stuff when you're very tired.

Appreciate your POV so much. Beginners are so fixated on getting the shapes just so, that we forget to give them life. Thanks for this - a memorable lesson.

Actually, Andrew Loomis talks quite a lot about this in his book on illustration. The idea is that you would line up elements in your composition to these lines. The lines you have here are symmetrical, not always the most interesting arrangement. Loomis shows how to divide up the composition in a nonsymmetrical way, which tends to be more interesting. It also makes it easier to divide up a square or other shape compositions. If you notice, the lines create a division in thirds, which is a common compositional devise. The place where the lines cross is supposed to be the best place to put your elements. To be honest, I find these devises to be a little too much like math, which is my mortal enemy. I tend to go with my gut, but I think this is good for you to play with and try to understand, then adjust and adapt it to your needs. Hope this helps :)

The shoe laces made me dizzy when I tried to draw them.

Oh boy, first assignment time! I'm just a beginner but so far I feel like my pace is closer to the intermediate, I'm like level 1.5! Well, what to do? I guess I'll just draw a beautiful peartrait ;)) Shading was done with 2B and F (Which stands for F-You-Proko-F-Is-A-Good-Pencil (peardon my french)).

@Stan Prokopenko i was wondering when the main lessons will be released, I don’t currently have Wi-Fi and have to go to the library to use it so just curious if there’s a specific release date for the lessons that we draw along to or study, also super helpful video, definitely thinking about getting some of those wood less pencils.👌

Yay, 1st assignment! I've been using pencils (HB and 6B), since I've been drawing lines and lines an lines in a workbook I purchased some time ago, I thought I'll maybe skip those and started with the ominous pear instead :) Erasing doesn't work, I didn't get the highlights as intended. I've been using a kneaded eraser and an electric one (feels like drilling :) ) - any tips for the highlights?

haha, as a beginner with only a few drawabox lessons, I surprised myself what I can draw, it started as a simple scribble that should have gone straight to the trash and in the end I'm quite proud of it, the shading is completely intuitive, no formal knowledge : ) There are probably a lot of mistakes, but it was great fun.

Hi there, this is my second attempt for portrait, but with different medium this time.I choose gouache and I tried to simplify as much as a can the values.

Playing around with my new tools: 1st assignment done :)

Hello everyone :)! I drew some tools that I almost always use when I'm drawing.

skull what's my mistake