References: https://imgur.com/a/IPLBQBv
I don't know if I covered all of my issues. I've been trying to use less contour lines over all. I still can't wrap my brain around some 3D shapes, especially when doing the heads and feet.
Thank you for the feedback! I needed that. I will continue to draw plants and insects as part of my warm-ups and just for fun. I discovered that it's very relaxing for me to colour my drawings too. Plants are the easiest, but some bugs do look great with contrasting colours.
Do you plan to ever do some lessons about colours, colour theory and colouring technics?
I will move on to lesson 5 and I'll try to stop going over my ellipses more than 2 times.
I haven't yet started the texture challenge, it's quite intimidating.
Hi there!
For the challenge you're supposed to do them like it is described in this article https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/textureanalysis
If you want to see what others are doing, you can go through the homework submissions for this challenge or you can have a look on the discord channel #advanced-challenge at what others have posted. In short, you have to do the three panels with the first being a study, the second being the list of observations and the last being a demonstration with texture from high density (dark) to low density (white).
Good luck!
Adrian
Hi there!
The limitation of using only fineliners is just for the homework. What you want to do in your own drawings is your business. At most, DAB recommends doing the warmups before starting your drawing sessions as this helps a lot. Just remember that if you want to submit anything for a review, even a free one, it should be done with a fineliner without any previous sketch in pencil.
Good luck!
Adrian
Thank you for the feedback. I understand now what you mean by getting the ellispes backwards, I will try to focus on that. I still feel that all my form intersections all look a bit samey. I think I need to force myself to experiment with them more.
Should I start doing the texture challenge in parallel with lesson 3, or should I wait to start that? What about the cylinder one?
Hi!
I redid the extra pages you recommended. I still don't realy feel confident about them. I get fustrated a lot, especialy when I start making mistakes on the third or forth sausage. I feel that i shoul continue with these exercises. i'll focus on them as oart of my warmups.
Let's be real here for a second: fineliners can get pricey. It varies from brand to brand, store to store, and country to country, but good fineliners like the Staedtler Pigment Liner (my personal brand favourite) can cost an arm and a leg. I remember finding them being sold individually at a Michael's for $4-$5 each. That's highway robbery right there.
Now, we're not a big company ourselves or anything, but we have been in a position to periodically import large batches of pens that we've sourced ourselves - using the wholesale route to keep costs down, and then to split the savings between getting pens to you for cheaper, and setting some aside to one day produce our own.
These pens are each hand-tested (on a little card we include in the package) to avoid sending out any duds (another problem with pens sold in stores). We also checked out a handful of different options before settling on this supplier - mainly looking for pens that were as close to the Staedtler Pigment Liner. If I'm being honest, I think these might even perform a little better, at least for our use case in this course.
We've also tested their longevity. We've found that if we're reasonably gentle with them, we can get through all of Lesson 1, and halfway through the box challenge. We actually had ScyllaStew test them while recording realtime videos of her working through the lesson work, which you can check out here, along with a variety of reviews of other brands.
Now, I will say this - we're only really in a position to make this an attractive offer for those in the continental United States (where we can offer shipping for free). We do ship internationally, but between the shipping prices and shipping times, it's probably not the best offer you can find - though this may depend. We also straight up can't ship to the UK, thanks to some fairly new restrictions they've put into place relating to their Brexit transition. I know that's a bummer - I'm Canadian myself - but hopefully one day we can expand things more meaningfully to the rest of the world.
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