Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
11:17 PM, Wednesday July 12th 2023
Hi! I don't know exactly what to write in this... Will not do the self critique thing tho haha. I did my best to draw from my shoulder everytime, but I'll admit that when the lines were too small I used elbow or wrist. Making a 1cm straight line from the shoulder is damn hard, but lemme know if that's something I should do. Also I will admit that I did a bit more than the recommended amount (ended up with 11 extra pages) for some exercises... I felt like the ellipses felt out of place in the list of exercises because we tackle them out of nowhere and then go back to boxes (and finish with boxes). But I imagine future lessons will have plenty of ellipses to make me cry lol. I also have to admit that I did not do 50/50 lessons and free drawing. Twas probably more like 70% lessons and 30% drawing...
The most dreaded exercise to me was the Rotated Boxes (seems doomed in the beginning but after a certain point starts to look right). My favorite one was the Organic Perspective (last one). It was surprisingly fun and a nice warm up for the 250 Boxes Challenge (I counted ~81 boxes from my 2 pages).
I will say that I see a nice improvement in how I feel about making mistakes. That is definitely something that always held me back from simply sitting down and drawing. If there is something that this course does right is assuring the person that making mistakes is the only way to learn and make progress, and that's OKAY.