Last year I finished Lesson 3 and then took a little break. It was nice revisiting DAB within the purpose of this course and completing DAB Lesson 4. After doing so, I really challenged myself to go out of my comfort zone. I used crosshatching (which I hated up until now) while applying what I learned so far from this course, and what I've learned about insects, to make a drawing of an insect purely from imagination, without using references. Doing this before moving on to the section on inventing shading is deliberate - I have promised myself to redraw this after completing the next section and see how it differs. I feel there is some realism lacking from my imaginary insect, it would make me happy to get some critique on what is missing - a background tone? Is the value organization too messy? Should I have done outlines in certain parts? I feel it's a lot harder organizing values with crosshatching, but I am determined on slowly getting there.

I will use drawabox more later

I finished Drawabox months ago, It's nice to re-visit this excercise and learn something that I could not get before, This is a bug constructions. Any feedback/critiques will be greatly appreciated.

Like playing Legos, this is perhaps the most fruitful tutorial of them all :-)

Draw a box is awesome. Love the community idea. Would love a Dorian / Shading community with you guys aswell ... just an idea :-) Cool exercise!

I started Drawabox lessons a while ago and I never completed them, so I picked up where I left, and started lesson 4 on applying construction to insects and arachnids. Since Drawabox exercises require a lot of focus, and I've been very tired in the last week, I moved on to the next lessons, thinking I would go back to it when I would feel better. As always, I find it challenging to estimate proportions and draw beautiful flowing lines when erasing is not an option, but that is part of the game. Some of the lines on the wasp sketch seem lighter because I've added a bit of water to the ink. Oh, and part of the wing is cut out because I miscalculated and it didn't fit completely on the page...

Some of the 250 box challenge I am working through.

I am familiar with Drawabox so I decided to try a HW Assignment I have struggled with in the past. Still hard for me but totally worth it.

I think I should start from scratch, I did lesson1. May be I should continue to improve my 3d awareness!

I did some plant studies

Decided to give a try at showing the structure of a lady bug