Fedodika the Koala

[Fedodika]

Jun: Thx man, I tried to do the challenge and I am figuring out a lot of things I never would have noticed before. I used to actually draw a lot of boxes and such, but just stacking them on top and not really caring how they looked. But now, since I know about the ghost technique and the concept of wobbly lines and "Bad" boxes, it adds a whole new dimension to this stuff

Drawing these I just see more and more things I can't do correctly. I can't even make a box look solid and like it could sit in space. The lines get all crooked or skewed or flat and crushed in. It looks terrible, I really cringe just looking at these it's embarassing. Draw a leg on it too long or too concave and the whole things gets off. It's really brutal haha.

So total all this stuff took about 8-10 hrs today, not sure. Really humbling experience, especially when you're kind of aware of how it should look and how you think you knew this stuff but you really don't. Then looking at my work before this and HOLY CRAP, mistakes are just now sooo clear and so obvious. It feels like I had a dirty skewed lens on my work before this month and now I have a much clearer lens. Still not the best lens, though, I'd have to draw a few more boxes for that ;)

The very foundation of all my work was built on a skewed idea of perspective and form, and thats why people don't like it. It's like, your eye subconsiously measures things/angles to let you know how much space it occupies, but when you throw a distortion on it, that is totally unintentional, things just really skewed and bizarre. Huh, It's kind of romantic to think what my work would have looked like would I have kept on my path beforehand. But the eye is pleased when it sees the measurements meet appropriately to the scene before it. It's very very subconscious, and shouldn't be a gamble. The people who nail it every time reap the rewards every single time. 

Hoo hoo, well there it is the 250 box challange, all with ghost technique lines. That is a really interesting way of drawing lines btw. You kinda get in a cool swing after a while, even though my boxes don't appear to improve, my eye certainly did. I see all the little mistakes now, and what a box should look like, and man it's a lot more specific than what I had previously thought.