Noodling on doodling

Above you see two sketches of a shipping box. I doodled it because I’d just received a new sketchbook in the mail, it was one of the options for a sketchbook/journal to bring to Ireland, and I had to test the paper. So I doodled a box. The first of those doodles is on the right side, and boy, it is WONKY. I took a bit more time for the second doodle. I first simplified the steps, because I got lost half way through drawing the box flaps in the first drawing. I folded the flaps aside to draw first the inside of the box, then the outside. I did the thing a lot where I held up my mechanical pencil, and checked my angles. Then I added shading, and I doodled the flaps. It’s still not perfect, but it’s so much better in my humble opinion. The only difference is (except some shading) that I took the time to breathe, look and study the angles. I took a minute to see what the box looked like before I put the pencil to paper. And when I did, I erased a lot. Not because I expected perfection,…