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SeikyouJournal

Basics Brawler

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    5:21 PM, Thursday July 30th 2020

    Those are some nice straight lines there!!

    In the first week it seems like your line converged a little too soon, you seemed to correct that and spread them in the next weeks. By the 50th day or so you pretty much got it!!

    There seem times where your lines tend to get close a little soon but all in all they all seem to be nice cuboid figures :)

    Just watch out for those convergences and always commit to the line. One or two of those cubes seemed to have lines where you corrected course halfway.

    I like how you spotted flaws in your work and corrected it.

    Next Steps:

    As I said just watch out for those convergences and always commit to the line.

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    5:06 PM, Thursday July 30th 2020

    Really good work making the axes of those cylinders close enough. I really liked how confident your line work is in the majority of the pages. Seems like you got burnt out ¾ ths into the exercise, if that’s the case try to shorten the working time and take some brakes. Warm up a little with whatever pen you decide to use to feel the smoothest angle and speed to work with. At the end of the work I can see some real confidence in those cubes.

    All in all remember to take your time. Over time I feel how I get stiffer and stiffer. Taking some brakes whenever I feel the stress coming helps me to relax my arm a bit. Short breaks also give me the time to take a look at my work to notice when I have moved the axes and my vanishing points, it also helps all the information to sink in.

    I really envy those final cubes of yours!!

    By the way… I wonder if you used a fountain pen at some point, some of those balck lines seemed to me like fountain pen lines. When I use fountain pens I watch out not to let too much ink into the line and also need more time for the ink to be absorbed into the paper, especially when using a ruler.

    Next Steps:

    Not an expert here, I can just advise to always remember to commit to the line. You seemed to have the fundamentals right and pretty much know how to construct. When starting your drawings doodle a little bit with the pen you are using, relax and be confident in your strokes.

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