NamelessArt

This is really interesting, well done.

I understand the impulse. For what it's worth, I've not felt the need to 'scratch' as much in my personal drawing as I build better habits in the lessons.

But SOME scratching might have it's place, and I don't really believe that most artists do an initial sketch without petting some of their lines or using other "messy" techniques to find the right shape - the more experienced ones just seem to know how and when they can use those techniques to get the desired result.

I work full time and have a spouse; time is not on my side for this.

But what can be done? I want to draw, and I want to get better - I won't do either if I don't make this enjoyable. So I let go of the expectation that every drawing will be better than thet last, because that goal-minded mentality is the enemy; we all want to be "there" making amazing art, but the journey is what matters.

in practical terms, I do lessons one day, draw for fun the next day, and post feedback whenever I can in between because by explaining lessons to someone else, I'm teaching myself. And if I need a break for a couple days, I let that happen.

Understood perfectly!

I can see what you mean about my line smoothness - I'm in the early stage of 250 boxes and will continue to warm up with ghosting exercises.

Thanks for taking the time to review my work!

These look good. You mentioned that lines need more work - I have to imagine this is true for all of use around the lesson 1 point. Focus on planning and ghosting more; this is SO difficult for me, because it feels like a waste of time - but today I noticed that I was able to plot/ ghost faster than before, and came out with better lines, so it does get faster.

I don't have a ton of notes - Your funnels were a little large and overlapped, but they look good and you seem to have gotten what you need from the lesson. Elipses look good - a bit outside the boarders here and there but others are just about as good as you can get, and you've got the gaps filled in most places as well.

One thing: You didn't draw all the way through all of the boxes in the rotated box exercise. I think you should keep going with 250 boxes, but take a break from that at some point and re-do rotated boxes.

So, it looks like some of these are digital and some are on paper? And some are done in pencil (or it appears that way from the scans)

If you're mixing the type of media you're using, I think this is going to make it difficult to rate your work.

These are not bad; in fact rotated boxes looks really great, and that is a difficult assignment. You're probably ok to move on to 250 Boxes, so long as you are following the instructions:

-Try to stick with the .5 mm pen on A4 (8.5 x 11) paper, or use black ballpoint pen if you absolutely cannot get .5 mm felt tip pens.

-Rulers are generally for your setup only; Don't draw the subject itself using a ruler. All our your lines besides frames, guidelines, or marking vanishing points, should be freehand unless the lesson says otherwise.

I only mention these things because there looks like a lot of inconsistency in your lines throughout your homework - this could just be a result of the different types of media you are using which, again, makes it difficult for us, and for you, to see where you are doing well and where you need more work.

Doodling actually seems like a great habit. It's a way to get a variety of concepts visualized, and can help you decide what you want to do for a finished piece.

The lines on these need work, but a cleaned up version of any of these would make really cute, minimalist illustrations of those scenes.

This is a nice start. Cute character, robes are draped nicely.

Just a suggestion; The character is in kind of a static pose, which is totally fine, but if they are just standing, I imagine they would be holding the staff upright - perhaps resting it across their shoulder, or just holding it in the same pose you have but with the weighted end pointed up.

Think of just carrying around a large hammer - Keeping the weighted end low will feel unnatural, it keeps the weighted end further away from your center and makes it harder to balance, so you keep it upright, closer to your upper body and center of balance until you need to swing it.

Now, if your intent is that they are pointing the weighted end towards something (like using it as a focus point to channel healing magic towards an ally or something), you would want to probably change the pose so that the character's right arm is lifted up, and have then also taking a wider stance with their legs so that they are balanced, and that the 'action' of your drawing is represented more clearly.

Perspective on the offic chair looks good - the wheels in the back are clearly smaller/ farther than the ones closer to the viewer.

Detail on the bee's wings are nice.

I agree with Keednein, the composition is nice - Really clear fore, mid, and background elements. Lighting is great.

The painting seems tight everywhere except the clouds; I found that just a little distracting, but not bad.

The salamander's pose looks more limp/ worried to me, and not quite like he is running/ scampering. I think it may have to do with the front feet (arms?) being in the same position - Mid-sprint, arms or legs will usually be offset from each other, more like the back legs in your drawing.

I love the ominous squirrels in the tree, looks very cool.