Sekhburd

Thank you once again. You're right about my choosing more complex subjects. It's partially me just not knowing plants as a subject well enough to find the right ones to draw, but also I make an effort to not try to recreate the example plants since I find if I do that, I end up just copying the original drawing instead of trying to explore the actual process used to create it. I'll make an effort to scale that back a bit with the next set of lessons.

With the outlines that I end up going back over, I think that's a poor attempt by me to put some "3d" shadows under them in a few cases.

I'll add some extra warmups to my list for the next set of lessons, thank you for the review again.

Hello there!

Thanks for the critique. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Life keeps getting in the way.

I've got the requested extra pages here - https://imgur.com/a/MwWmqKR - Took a bit to try to get a handle on what you mentioned but I believe I've mostly got it down. I'm still not really great with shadows / black blocking things in it seems, but hopefully the construction is good now!

Howdy!

Appreciate that and here is a link to the completed two pages. I thiiiink I got them looking better. I missed the note on only keeping the ends of the 3d bodies about the same so thats why everything looks way off.

https://imgur.com/a/NbnLkDM

My pens are 0.5mm pens from here - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09XQRVKTM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thanks for the assistance. I have difficulty with getting circular marks down even with ghosting the lines, its not nearly as simple as straight ones so they don't always come out curved on both ends like I want them to.

Thank you for taking a look at my work. It was nice to see actual progress from the first, very not great boxes to the end. Looking forward to working on something new now though hah.

Ah ok, thanks! Going to start on that one now. Looks like a real challenge!

Have a good week!

Rob,

Thanks for the critique. I think my biggest fear was the ellipses because it feels like after ghosting through them when I put my pen down its really hard to acurately "see" where the mark needs to go. I've just kept practicing though.

Could you elaborate just a bit on the relying heavily on parallel lines for box construction? I thought that the main intent was to use them to make sure the boxes stay boxy. I did find myself getting lost when I tried to make the REALLY BIG boxes that start on the edge of the page.

Appreciate it and have a good one!

Personally it feels like so much of learning these skills is building up muscle memory on various shapes and a mental book of what did and didn't work so if you arne't putting pen to paper you aren't getting the most out of that time. I'd read on the side, but try to still put in the full 50% towards building the hand-eye-minds eye coordination.