Hah, managed to do no2 hand lvl 2. A lazy attempt but I wanted to go practice my rhythms but I just had to submit something, the unfinished feeling suck in the back of my mind.

I started my art journey two years ago with Drawabox. As the name implies, you very quickly move into drawing 3d boxes. In fact the major challenge of the first chapter in that course is to draw 250 boxes in perspective without drawing the vanishing points. After doing the challenge, I was still completely in the dark. I'd gotten better at drawing boxes but they were rarely "correct". This was mainly down to the simple fact that learning how to do this, as with learning anything, requires one to commit to understanding the insights that are given and/or figuring out these insights by oneself. If you can understand "what" you are drawing and its rules, you can draw it. And this sounds like a very stupid thing to just say, I mean it's a given that if you want to learn you need to pay attention, but fact was I'd just done the 250 box challenge 4 times, while reading the articles on the site, and none of the insight was sticking. I had to use a ruler to make something even remotely accurate. The biggest insight that made the gears turn for me was understanding that "things move away from a point and as they move towards it, their form distorts into being smaller". What this means is that if I can identify the closest "object" everything will shrink from there. Couple that insight with the rule that everything converges into a point and my knowledge of what a cube is and I could conclude a few other things such as: - You can find a VP with any two lines in case you need to. - After confirming the general position of the VP you can draw any line that converges towards it. - If you draw two lines that converge to one VP, any 3rd line drawn in between these lines can't have a greater angle than the first two lines. I could go on and it's all very obvious stuff that I wasn't paying attention to. Until I made a conscious effort to really "know" the things that I already knew and had read over a dozen times by this point. Honestly from what you're saying it feels like you're tying way too hard to get them absolutely perfect, which I don't think anyone can do with perfect accuracy. Maybe take a break from boxes or review what you know and draw a few with just your knowledge of drawing a box in 3d and then ask yourself where you went wrong, if you went wrong that is. It also helps to look at a box or cube in real life or in a 3d viewer. Hope this helps.

Here's the rest of my set. Wanted to have these out earlier but I spent the weekend practicing gesture and when I picked the assignment up on Sunday, my performance was all over the place. No. 11-15 look weird but hey that's that. Ill practice portraits some more. As for putting the boxes in perspective. I don't know how well I'm doing to be honest. The portraits are too close for there to be any significant perspective distortion but I may be entirely wrong.

Hey man, a suggestion I have for you to avoid line clutter is to just use different layers for every object since you're using digital tools. You can organize this however you want but an example would be: Have your VP in one layer, the project you'll be drawing in another layer (let's say it's a rail again), and then you have the lines for the right metal bar in a 3rd line layer, once you're done drawing the right metal bar in your project layer, disable the 3rd line layer so you don't see those lines and do a 4th layer for the left metal bar, 5th for some of the wood planks etc...

Yeah Stan said not to do ellipses so you know you're gonna have to try them. Did not enjoy myself with this one, had to redo the objects a bunch of times because I put the point outside of the page and lost track of it more than I did for the others. Tried making some plates and jugs but I'm not there yet. More tomorrow, I'm off to draw some people.

Forgot to post but hey batter fashionably late right? one of my boxes was being weird anyway.