Hello! Practice doesn't matter much, it's more about how you approach the exercise. A few questions:
-Did you make sure you were drawing from your shoulder? Take a look at this website section + the video
-Are you rotating the page before drawing every single line towards your most comfortable position to draw? (If you are right handed this is normally when you can draw from bottom left towards the top right)
Yeah I have been drawing from my shoulder and rotating the page like you said. It might be because I'm drawing the boxes too small? I seem to find it easier when drawing them on a larger scale. Or maybe my desk isn't the correct distance away or something? I have no idea but I've reread the line drawing section and watched the tutorial multiple times and I'm doing everything it says to do but it still feels kind of random whether the line comes out straight or not. I'm not really sure what to do about it.
Okay, so in general I think you've understood the concepts of the lesson, just one thing, on the levels of the lines, you marked some lines as level 0 when they're level 1. Remember that any confident straight line will be level 1, it will only get to level 0 when it's wobbly.
Here are some of your lines that you didn't mark correctly.
About the lines problem, yeah, it's easier when they're bigger, but it's still important to draw them confident when they're small, so remember to focus on improving this issue through the box challenge, do your best to try to get as many lines as you can to be level 1, and until you can do it don't worry too much about accuracy. First priority is confidence.
That being said, if you go through a chunk of the box challenge and you can't see improvement on your lines you can ping me on discord (@elodin) or send me a message here and we'll look at it again!
Either way like I said you seem to have understood the concepts of the lesson so I'll mark this as complete.
From now on you need to do warmups before every session, so don't forget about them! And make sure you ask any questions you might have. Keep up the good work and good luck on the box challenge!
Next Steps:
250 box challenge
Thank you so much, I'll keep trying and let you know if I'm still having problems.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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