Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
5:59 AM, Friday October 2nd 2020
My line work is definitely not the best. Very shaky at first even when trying to draw 100% from the shoulder. Still a lot of room to go, but it has improved a lot since I began the first assignment. It still starts to get shaky when my arm gets tired. Now I usually do a sheet of superimposed lines and a sheet of ellipses as warm-ups before any drawing session. Short lines are actually the hardest for me now as I have a tough time engaging the arm for very short lines like were used in the small boxes in the organic perspectives exercise.
In the boxes assignments, I sometimes grew into my understanding while doing the assignments. In the rotated boxes exercise I saw after the first rotated box that I was rotating too quickly to meet the side squares (which were also incorrectly sized). But once I had drawn one box, they all had to rotate the same amount... With the organic perspectives exercise, I started to draw each box as a 'Y' and learned that each angle had to be at least 90 degrees after making a couple of early mistakes with this. It wasn't until I had finished 4 panels of the boxes that I understood fully the convergence. I knew each parallel set had to converge to one side but didn't grasp that they had to converge always to the FAR side until then. In retrospect, it's obvious...