misterspades

Hey, thanks for the critique! And also thanks for pouring so much energy into answering my question - I really had to stop myself from getting distracted by tangents such as this one, otherwise I would be doing this lesson for a year.

And your comments about my work mean a lot to me, especially since they are coming from you. Reading this critique felt better than sex.

This course as a whole was probably my favourite learning experience in my life. It taught me more than just construction and perspective. It taught me patience, persistence and the importance of giving whatever I'm doing my best attempt. I also came to realize just how important it is to put pen to paper and play around with the concepts that were presented to you - this is where the actual learning takes place, not reading about theory (although that has its place too).

So your role in my progress was not small at all. In fact, I consider you a mentor and always will. Your philosophy on drawing and learning is something I inherited (for the most part) and is now a part of me. I am very grateful for that.

This course is an absolute gem - myself and the whole community are in your debt. You can be sure that I will recommend it to fellow artists for as long as it exists.

Anyways, I'm saddened to say goodbye, but may our paths cross again someday!

All the best to you and good luck on your future projects,

MisterSpades

Wow, that's awsome (and VERY reassuring)! I guess I won't have to worry about buyer's remorse hahah :D.

Hey! Knowing how busy your schedule is, I really appreciate that you responded to my post. I must admit that I don't understand why the orientation of the smaller elipse would have to shift slightly - I thought that both their minor axis' would lie on the same line.

I flipped through Scott Robertson's ''How to draw'' book in search of answers. I couldn't find any explanations (maybe I will once I actually get around to studying the book), but I did a little experiment. I placed my elipse guides on the wheel of the car on page 183 to find that both elipses have the same minor axis - or maybe I wasn't precise enough.

Anyways, I think I'm kinda missing the forest for the trees here by going into such depths for such a small piece of information. I should probably let it go for now and eventually revisit this topic when I'm equipped with more knowledge and a fresh mindset.

Hey, thanks for the critique! I drew the medical tape from life (and everything else), so I just drew the cast shadows as I saw them. I agree that it came out looking awkward and confusing - to that end I should have used my artistic license to choose a more dynamic and clear light source. At this point in my artistic journey, I have very little understanding of light and rendering, so that's my next stop after Drawabox. I found out about Dorian Iten's course and hopefully it will be as rewarding as this one.

The buttons on the speaker are roughly at the same level as the surface behind them - the two on each side slightly dip in at the middle and the two on the inside slightly pop out in the middle - so this was intentional. I am unsure of how I could communicate this to my viewers without confusing them.

I knew the comments about the tracing would come, and yet I still couldn't stop myself. I wanted my objects to ''pop'', because there are so many lines within the whole constructions. I know I could have done this more sparingly, but I am a sucker for contrast. And this is also a problem I have - I do care about my drawings looking good. The more time I invest in them, the more precious they become to me. I even keep all my warm-up's. I will try to follow your instructions going forward, but the pain is real xD.

Hey man, thanks for taking the time to respond. My point is that doing concentric elipses on a wheel is wrong, since the elipses should represent circles on a wheel. It is however a very minor thing, but the lack of foreshortening flattens the image out.

The second purpose of this post is to find learning resources which describe this topic in great detail. I want to understand how one would go about drawing two concentric circles in perspective with complete mathematical accuracy.

I can only tell you what I did, so take it with a grain of salt. If I missed really badly, then I made another attempt to correct it. If the error was minor, I just went with it. As far as the extensions go (pun intended :D), I always put them on the line, not the points I was initially aiming for.

Good luck with the challenge!

Dear Uncomfortable,

thank you for the critique! You've raised some good points, and I tried keeping those in mind as I drew the 3 additional pages.

Another thing I wanted to mention is that by the time I received the critique for lesson 4 I had already finished lesson 5, so that's why some of the mistakes were carried over. I'm kinda struggling with the 50-50 rule, because I am actually really enjoying the grind. I did start feeling burned out the end of the cylinder challenge, but I'm waiting for my elipse guides to arrive so this has given me some time to make some preety pictures :D.

Best regards,

MisterSpades

https://imgur.com/a/pzf0UFv

Thanks for the reply! I decided to get them in the end, since I will be forced to learn a new tool and I can focus on the meat of the exercises and not have to worry about my elipses looking like crap.

Hey man, this is looking really good! I think your constructions are super solid - they really do feel like 3D objects and not 2D shapes. The only drawback I was able to notice is your line weight - you mostly thicken out the whole silohuette of the animals (I actually like this effect btw), but this takes away from the visual hierarchy of lines. I would use line weight more sparingly and in places which I want to bring forth. For example, a leg that is closer to the viewer will be outlined with thicker line weight than the leg that is farther away.

My last thought is that you may have thickened out so many lines because you wanted to correct them/make them look better. I am guilty of this too, but we have to hold back here. We are not here to make preety drawings - we are here to learn and make mistakes. In essence, this is a bad habit. We waste precious time adding additional line weight (which serves no purpose) while trying to hide our mistakes. By exposing ourselves to the mistakes we are making, we are giving ourselves the opportunity to grow.

Hopefully this was helpful, keep on drawing bro! :)

https://imgur.com/a/mULDZTk

Dear Uncomfortable,

here are the two pages you had asked for. The first page is really messy and filled with contradicting information. I loosened up a bit for the second one and hopefully I did a few intersections correctly.

I gotta admit though, doing this exercise without understanding the math behind it is super frustrating for me. But I really tried to go with my gut and not overthink it, so hopefully I did the exercise in the way it was intended.

Looking forward to your reply!

MisterSpades