I've been coming back to this lesson a few times since I don't get the blob part and whenever I see your comment I'm hoping someone would just reply as I'm not in much of a position to do so. However obviously we're still here and you have no reply so let me illuminate a few things. So sorry if I come off as a jerk but that's the state that I'm in as I really can't come up with a better way to say this. I've taken one of your most recent submissions and I'd like to point out that you made this, along with with a whole host of other submissions entirely on your own without following any set rules bar the requirements of using blobs and turning them into boxes. You could have just made variations of what Stan showed us in the demos but you came up with your own original set of examples. You are always going to have a few basic rules that you must follow when drawing. If you want to draw a landscape you're not going to fill a page with a portrait and call it a landscape. So you're being anxious at something you're already doing, unless you have something much more specific in mind. That or I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say.

Chief I feel you, I've been in the cycle of fundamentals practice > get fed up > try a personal project > fail miserably > repeat for 3 years now. I sincerely hope to finish this year being able to draw my own works. To this effect I embarked on a bit of a journey to completing a personal project this past month, big reason why you haven't seen much from me bar that very rushed picture during this past assignment. It's in your best interests to keep on studying what Stan has taught us so far and try and "see" these theoretical concepts in the works that you like. Art is very much a subject that requires a lot of "understanding" in many fields and while it's often times best to figure these things out on your own, feel free to ask around for advice or a few nudges here and there. For example try to see the VPs and the "boxes" in drawings. Ask yourself "where did this artist put weight on his lines", "what shapes did they use" etc. So you can start building knowledge to make the pieces that you want. A nudge that I can give you is to find mistakes in artwork that you like. I was very surprised when I put the piece that motivated me to draw under the lens and noticed that it wasn't at all anatomically correct. The artist had made a great piece out of a pose that shouldn't work, their understanding of the subject being so good that only people with a certain knowledge would see it from the get go. In my opinion that's being a great artist.

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.