WereVrock

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The Indomitable (Winter 2024)

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    9:40 PM, Monday February 3rd 2025

    Thanks. I will keep these in mind.

    11:18 PM, Sunday February 2nd 2025

    Thanks for the review. I will keep these in mind in following lessons.

    For the entirety of the exercises I used real objects I have for reference. I didn't use or take any picture as reference because I saw no point in that. I opted for more dramatic perspectives because having at least 1 Vanishing point on paper made it easier to get accurate. I am not sure if I could have used a different angle while still having a vp on paper.

    I did the revisions. Focusing only on the visible part of the intersections has made it work I think.

    https://imgur.com/a/lesson-6-revision-9An0P0O

    9:00 AM, Sunday December 29th 2024

    Thanks

    9:25 PM, Monday December 9th 2024

    Thanks for the review. To my horror I've just realized that the first 150 cylinders are out of order. I could swear I put them in the order. I apologize if it was any inconvenience.

    I think the reason I had those problems in the early cylinders is that I was having a hard time controlling the size of the ellipses.

    I tried to vary my boxes out of boredom and as an added challenge. Back in the box challenge I was simply following a procedure to draw boxes. But in this challenge I was thinking more of how to draw the box I want, trying to visualise the box I want before drawing. I think it clicked when I started visualising skyscrappers from an aerial view.

    4:56 AM, Saturday July 13th 2024

    Thanks

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    7:05 AM, Friday July 12th 2024

    I don't get it. Do you always have your pc readily available? Don't you have moments where you could have doodled but you don't have access to your pc? I thought every digital artist carried pen and paper to doodle in those moments.

    6:54 AM, Friday July 12th 2024

    Thanks for the detailed review. I am reading and rereading it to get it all.

    I thought overshooting the sausage contours was for the beginners and we are supposed to stop doing it as we advanced. ( I don't know why I thought that).

    Every shape must have outward curves unless pressed by another mass. Do I understand this correctly? So I am not allowed to use any concave shapes. Is this a drawabox rule or a general rule? I think I can imagine a mass that naturally has inward curves sitting in a void and touching nothing but I have learned to trust the system at this point.

    Head construction was especially hard with animals with eyes on the side. In your rhino demo I see that you are putting the cranial ball where the eyes are. Is that always the rule?

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    5:53 AM, Wednesday June 5th 2024

    It is awesome

    5:54 PM, Thursday May 9th 2024

    Thanks for the detailed reply. I will keep this in mind

    4:24 AM, Thursday May 9th 2024

    Thanks for the critique.

    "there are a significant number of pages where you’d artificially limited the amount of space you gave to the construction, by drawing it much smaller than the page allows, leaving lots of blank space unused."

    I am having problems with getting the size right. Giving nature of the exercises that I am not supposed to do any preliminary drawings, erasing or retrying, my best guess of getting the first circle the right size is usually wrong. Is there any technique that I can use to get the size more correct?

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These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.

Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).

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