Molly

Hi Olivia!

Great job on completing this assignment, it's not easy but drawing daily will improve your skills quickly if you stick with it.

Your line quality on your ellipeses is a bit wobbly, but that will come with practice, but make sure that when you practice that you are drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist becuase that can cause an uneven wobblying line sometimes.

On your rough perspective, you have done a good job of guessing your vanishing point, but i did notice on one of the exercises that you estimated your vanishing points in a way that each box had it's own indiviual vanishing point. I did this too on one of mine! It looks like your practice paid off because the others look great

The exercise with the boxes in a sphere was really challenging and you've done a great job tackling it. I would occasionally try to redraw it every now and agian as a warm up and over time you will gain a better ability at drawing this exercise

Lastly on the rotated boxes exercise, there are a few spots where you have tried to give a line more weight and you went too heavy and thick. I'm sure these are just the errors you made as you practice, just like playing incorrect notes as you learn scales on an instrument. There were also a few times you made errors in your line placement and tried to redraw it. I've gotten critiqued for doing this myself by other students so my suggestion to you is to just leave the line as it is when you do make an error and learn from it when you extend out your lines when you realize how far off you were

Mistakes are great learning experiences and I've seen a few places where they have happened so just be aware of this when you go on to the 250 box challenge

Start on the 250 box challenge. I recomend doing a few pages of ellipses as a warm up before your drawing session each time, or at least I have found it helpful

Since you have finished these lessons, I would reccomend that you do a few of them over as a warm up exercise each time you sit down to draw. This will keep you skills fresh because you will not improve or maintain your gains if you do not continue practicing and stay consistent with it.

Great work! I'm impressed! If you haven't taken any drawing classes at all before, then you are naturally talented and I can tell that you have put a lot of effort and care in your work. Your mark making is confident and your lines and ellipses have a smooth quality and consitent flow. I can tell you have firm and understanding of the concepts that were were taught in each exercise so I believe that you are ready to move on to the next assignments.

Hi!

You have done and excellent job on these and it is clear to me that you have a firm understanding of perspective and how you are visualizing the boxes in space is very accurate. There are several instances where you have estimated your vanishing point dead on which I'm sure was a satisfying feeling. Very nice work!

There are 2 critiques I have for you:

1. There are a few spots where you have tried to give a line more weight and you went too heavy and thick. I'm sure these are just the errors you made as you practice, just like playing incorrect notes as you learn scales on an instrument. Mistakes are great learning experiences and I've seen a few places where they have happened so just be aware of this.

2. There were a few times you made errors in your line placement and tried to redraw it. I've gotten critiqued for doing this myself by other students so my suggestion to you is to just leave the line as it is when you do make an error and learn from it when you extend out your lines when you realize how far off you were.

If you end up getting and using any of these supplies will you please send me some pictures of your work? I would love to see what ways you handle the materials and see more of your art work besides just your drawing homework.

Hey thanks!

This is what I am using and I have been able to find these items on amazon.

the sketchbook I use

these crayons work great on black paper

so do these pens

if you like metallic colors, then these markers are awesome too

Thanks for critiquing my work. I do appreciate it and I agreed with all the critiques you gave me as I was making the lines. I would draw an ellipse and the shaking would get worse and I would be like, "dang. I know I can HAVE BEEN able to do sooooo much better than this."

It is not fun to lose control in this way but I am thinking that if I do these as warmups everyday, maybe I can adjust to the shaking the same way I adjusted to being able to sketch in moving vehicles.

I have been drawing for over 16 years and I have always felt confident in my line quality, up until this week that is, because of this meds switch. It has been incredibly discouraging but I am figuring it out.

I'm mostly judgemental to myself because I have an Illustration degree, a Graphic Design degree, and 5 classes left until I earn my BFA in Visual Communication, so I've been at this for a while. It just makes me a bit nervous that it could become an issue in furthering my career if it continues, but I am hopeful that it will just be a matter of adjusting to the medications. Practice will help for sure.

Thanks again!

I'm on new meds that have been making my hands shake badly. This started happening about 3 days ago. Here are my before and after attmempts. I am shaking again as I type this :( Very frustrating but maybe I will get used to the meds in about a week. Either way, I have been doing these as warmups before drawing everyday so I hopefully these meds get adjusted soon because it is really hindering my drawing and hand/eye cordination. https://imgur.com/a/nY5Kgmh

Thank you very much! I originally made the drawings for myself but I liked them so much that I wanted to share. I am glad that you enjoyed them too.