Shame

https://imgur.com/a/rxEYfWJ

Holding it at a different angle made all of the difference for how solid my lines are. I'm too used to just resting my hand on the page.

Anyway, here's to a new start! I've got an awful habit of getting short bursts of motivation at irregular intervals. But I've started to make time before work. The first few boxes had extra wobbly lines but I could see myself improving in real time as the exercise went on... Only to drop the ball at the finish line as my time ran short and I messed up the last box. You'll know which one it is, probably. A lesson on the importance of keeping the mind clear, right?

Sorry for the delay. Life got hectic but I'm trying to get back on track. Thankfully, it doesn't seem that I've regressed much. But I still find myself having trouble at the same exact moment of each line, the part where I actually go to make the mark. The act of moving my pen onto the paper is what throws me off. How do I know how hard to lower my pen? How do I know what angle to come in at?

Noticing this has caused me to hesitate and it's just making things worse.

Thank you for your time.

https://imgur.com/a/ISOIvm2

I typed up a whole big response and lost it to a bad connection. Im gonna call it a blessing in disguise because I'll probably be able to make the same points in way fewer words this time!

The real issue I keep encountering is the transition from ghosting to making the stroke. The way my hand seems to hit the paper always throws off my trajectory and sometimes makes me panic a little. The ghosted lines exercise went pretty smoothly but I actually took a step backwards with the rough perspective exercise since I started experimenting with all of the different factors such as speed and pressure. The difficulty of the exercise also contributed to the mess, I'm sure.

Typing my thoughts made me realize that I could likely benefit from keeping my elbow closer to my body so I'll definitely try that next time. I move for my job a lot and the hotel I recently moved into is old and cheap so the table is actually bowed inward and not perfectly flat so that may have contributed to curves in the lines. I don't consider it likely though. Thankfully I move again this weekend to a newer place.

I also got the impression that I was using my elbow far too much between doing both of these exercises so you see the result of me trying to be more shoulder heavy. But in hindsight I think I had an okay balance before.

Thanks for the feedback!

https://imgur.com/a/NAwBcQp

Thanks for the feedback! I went ahead and threw some ellipses in the planes just for good measure. You read my mind with suggesting the ghosted planes exercise.

I need to confess that I'm still pretty bad at ellipses, I just hide it by only doing ones I'm comfortable with. Thinner ones scare the hell out of me.