idichekop

Very much an improvement! Keep the great work, and go on to the next!

Hi Zerg,

Wonderful work! Very well done.

I like your lines, very confident and solid.

All exercises were made with care and confidence. I see you can draw from your arm already!

There was some struggle on the ghosted perspective exercises, but this is something that comes with more repetition. I think the 250 boxes challenge will help you a lot improving it. Go for it!

Hi CaptainShaani,

Thanks for the effort you put on the exercises! The most of the merit is already in the effort.

I can see some points in your work for improvement:

1) The superposed lines and ghosted lines need some more work. The line is confident, but it really misses to be on the top of each other. Check if one of these things are happening:

2) The Rotated Box exercise did not really work. Try to do it one box at a time, slowly. It is a difficult exercise that should not be sped.

Hi PiratenPrentice,

Good and hard work!

1) Your lines have confidence in it. They are straight and have a sweep movement. I cannot see any hesitation nor hairy lines. Good! Keep it like that. Though you show confidence in the line, your work on super imposed lines show a lot of lines all over the place. It seems that you have some difficulty on putting many lines in the same position. Here, there are some things you can check:

    1.1) Maybe you are going too fast.  After the first line, you should not be too slow, but also not too fast.  The speed should be confident, but slow enough that you can keep it on the top of the previous line.

    1.2) It can be that you are sweeping with a lot of strength in the arm.  You can try to be light, as if you were hoovering, levitating on the top of the line.  The thickness of the line comes from repetition, not from the strength every time.

    1.3) You start many lines already off from the line underneath.  If you approach the line in the beginning almost ghosting it (not touching) and slowly go down with the pen on the line, increasing the contact as you go, that will give you a good start, and makes it easier to follow the line.  Better than immediately start with correcting it.

2) Your ghosted lines are a bit hasty. I think this is no show stopper, but when exercising this , it is exactly the effort to try starting and stopping on the points that will give you the extra line control. So, next time, put extra effort in that. Lines are of good quality, though.

3) Ellipses in plane are good! The lines you have for the squares and lines in between are very very good! Different thant the ghosted lines! What did you do in here! This is the way you should do in the ghosted lines as well !!! I mean, clean, and precise on the start and end of it. Good work

4) Table of ellipses are not really ok. It feels you did very big ellipses to speed the exercise(?!).

5) You had some hard time on the rough perspective, but it will get better with time. Warm up with this exercise when doing the 250 boxes challenge. It is drilling the 250 boxes challenge where you will improve :D!

6) Rotated box was hard. It is hard. Unfortunately, it seems to not be there yet. The boxes shrink way too fast, and as you go up (down) the boxes seems not to turn as much as they should, just shrink. That gives them a feel of being crooked, not rotated.

Indeed, very good work! I think that you are ready to advance, in fact.

Some small work yet to go on the perspective boxes, but this will come with time. Keep doing it from time to time to see your own progress.

As other mention, the best of your work is the confidence in the lines. I guess you are really doing it from the arm, not from the hand. If you want to go one step further on your lines, start playing to variations of the weight.

Have fun in lesson 2.

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You can try to use a drawing board. That is a large (larger than the paper, kind of A3 size) wood board. Anything like that will fit well. Search "drawing board" in google.

If you have a drawing board, you do not put it "on your table" but leaning against your table border. The lower part of the board rests on your lap. This gives you an inclined plane in front of you, instead of the horizontal plane of a table.

The advantage is not only that you use more naturaly your arm, but also you keep a straight up position to your back, which is good for long time drawing.

Have fun!

Dear Samuchad,

I see youf had a lot of work and time spent on all the lesson 1 exercises. But you made it! And made it quite well. Congratulations!

In general, all seems fine and quite in line to the instructions of each exercise. Also, you show the drive to draw filling all the page in all cases. That is nice ! The more you push yourself to draw every inch, the faster you will progress. Speaking of progress, I can see improvements along the exercises already. Your line is more steady and confident against the end of the exercises than it is at the beginning.

I would call your attention to some points of potential improvement:

1) Line quality -- Your line is confident, but most of the time have the same weight. That is very normal at the beginning because you are not yet used to control the weight of your hand. But try to vary from light to dark, and from dark to light in the same line. When drawing boxes for example, the front edges can be darker and get lighter as they go to the back. Or vice versa. There is no rule. The idea is to have variation. Experiment!

2) Bending lines -- In many boxes and squares some line bend from their direction and become small curves. That makes you miss the corner where the line should go. Try to see if this happens because you are trying to slow down at the end of the line. This effect will disappear as you draw more from your shoulder. The bending line at the end sometimes is exactly a movement of the wrist.

3) In the one point perspective boxes, you used some dots at the corners of the boxes. They are visually not pleasant. Also, they tend to hide if you really hit the direction or not. The dot becomes. an area where all is right.

4) Nice ellipses ! They were clean most of the time. Keep drawing them from the shoulder, or at least from the arm. Try consciously to not draw them with the wrist.

5) The boxes in perspective -- the one where boxes are in the surface of a sphere -- needs a bit of re-work. It is a very hard task to get it really right. The boxes at the periphery should have a more critical turn to the inside, and they should be smaller. If at all, I would recommend you to try the exercise again.

That all said, great work! You are fired up to become a great drawing machine! Enjoy and do not forget the rule of 50%-50

%. For every hour in exercise drill, take also an hour to draw freely and things you like! Have fun with lesson 2!

Cheers,

Idichekop

Many thanks for your review and time WIFU4LIFU!

Loved the diagram you indicated. I will remember it on the coming way. Also, I will try drawing some big boxes from time to time to get beter on close-ups.

Again, many thanks !

Hi WiFU4LIFU,

I finally managed to scan the last pages with line extensions. Thank you for your review.

Here they are:

https://imgur.com/a/iQCFe5O