Focusing on Drawabox for this whole month. I did Lesson 1 and now I'm doing the 250 box challenge. Completed the first 50, now onto the next 50. (These photos are a representative overview, not everything I did so far)

This was hard! Pre-demo try. Critique welcome. I started with the top of the hat and tried to measure my way downwards. However, the hat (which I started with) was the only thing that was off-size when I compared to the photo... It was ridiculously small! After adjusting the hat size I tried finishing the sketch with ballpoint pen in a " Rembert Montaldesque" technique. I could also use some lines inspired by Roberto De La Torre in the beard. Tried to consciously vary line weight throughout. A lot of fun! Bonus tip! Found a great website for overlapping photos (you still need to invert it yourself): https://overlay.imageonline.co/.

This is my assignment for proportions. I feel like I got the hang of it more as I kept doing it but I keep messing up the chin length in some places and I noticed that I don't cut off the sides of the head correctly at some hard angles. I have a lot of trouble with the really drastic angles.

Hello fellow artists! My shot on the lvl 1 exercise, the laces were pretty confusing. ONward to lvl 2!

Nice portrait @luceberg! Beautiful painterly brush strokes, great value control, nice choice on the more muted background, it lifts the vibrancy of the color choices in the face. One thing I noticed is the features are slightly out of perspective on the left side of the face catching all of the light. The far eye/temple is drifting higher than it should be. It helps to draw a line through each corner of the eye to help keep them aligned in perspective. The chin is also slightly small, and the hair/cranium slightly large, almost as if her forehead was tilting towards us rather than away from us, so adding a bit more chin and reducing the hair a bit might balance it out a bit. Try to draw a box in perspective tilted at the same angle as the head to give you an idea of how the features should align in perspective. When working digitally it helps to draw right over your subject so you can bring this info into your drawing as a reminder of how the features align. I liquified the areas I mentioned a bit in the second image to show what I mean. Also, here's a free video from the Basics Course on Drawing Portraits in Perspective! Hope this helps! https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/project-portraits-in-perspective/downloads

I don't have current experience with their V2 programs, but I still have a version 1.9.2 of Affinity that I use when I don't have access to Photoshop and it's always been a solid application!

Really nice job with these! The straight line lay-in for the snail really shows how you're breaking this down, measuring, and thinking through it. Great simplification! The boots are looking good too, something to keep in mind is balancing your use of straights and curves. The boots feel very round and soft, almost all C and S curves. Even in areas like the heel there's a slight curve to that line which which gives the feeling of a bulging squishy marshmallow instead of a hard rubber heel. So I might suggest trying to find some places to preserve the straight lines of your lay in to balance the curves. Keep up the good work!!

Cracking on...

Hey Ariel! I think you did a nice job here, these are looking pretty good! What is feeling off to you?

This is what I ended up with. Started over three times until I got a block-in I was satisfied with to render. Sometimes it's hard to see whats wrong but you know something is. Need to get up and take breaks more.