Date of execution: 9th April - 4th May
Lesson 1 started out easy as cake and while doing it i encountered each exercise only to be periodically decreasing difficulty over time. Even after doing the Ghosted Planes, i always couldn't tend to make perfectly straight lines that easily.
I'm glad it's done now.
Congrats for finishing Lesson 1, Ale2050.
Your show some solid work on these exercises, but there's still room for improvement.
One think I certainly recommend is that you do your drawings on loose paper sheets, instead of a sketchbook, as it's very hard to keep a perfectly flat surface using them. I recommend A4 printer paper, since it's cheap and it has the recommended size for these exercises.
Lines
Your superimposed lines show good work, but there is some wobbling, specially on the longer lines. Your ghosted lines are also overall good, but some arching is noticeable. Always remember to draw with confidence and with motion from the shoulder.
Good work on the ghosted planes. Your lines seem to be better here, although I can still notice some arching, specially on the longer lines.
Ellipses
Your table of ellipses are very good. They are packed tightly together and I see no noticeable woobling. The same can be said for your ellipses in planes and funnels exercises. On this last on, i would recommend increasing the degree of the ellipses as you move away from the center, as shown here.
Anyway, really nice job on your ellipses.
Boxes
On your rough perspective exercise, you did a good job maintaining the horizontal lines parallel to the horizon and your perspective lines are mostly converging, which is a good sign. Your line work, on the other hand, seems to suffer a bit on this exercise. There is some evident wobbling as you were trying to make sure the lines reached the dot you've placed. Be sure to ghost your lines correctly and, when drawing the real line, have confidence on your ghosting method. In some occasions you've drawn over your lines, in order to correct them. Don't do this, because it will make your work messy and, in the end, the person who is seeing your work, might not know which is the first or the second line, so they won't know if you corrected the line or made it worse. Again, ghost your lines and draw with confidence.
Your rotated boxes look decent, although you could have pushed the rotation a bit further.
On your organic perspective you did a good job making it seem that all the boxes belong to the same 3D space, although you could have drawn your small boxes smaller, in order to show they were really far away. Again, your line work here could be better, as some of your lines are not quite straight. Also, the perspective on some of the boxes is not quite correct, as some of the lines are not converging. Some of them also seem to be skewing a bit. This is something you'll need to pay close attention on the 250 boxes challenge. Regarding the overlapping boxes, you can play with the line weight of the box in front, in order to highlight the fact that it's the one in front.
Overall I think you have done a good work in this lesson, specially in your ellipses exercises, which are really good.
Next Steps:
Keep practicing some of these during your warm ups and be sure to ghost your lines before committing to them.
For the 250 boxes challenge, don't forget to keep focus while drawing them, in order to keep your perspective lines converging.
I should admit that ghosting lines was one of the most annoying things and overall not easy to make them as perfect as possible. I did my own best to be focused, but even with rotating the pages and trying to hold myself up, it doesn't change a lot. (And yes, i've drew many lines as i could with the shoulder.) But i can also admit that for very shorter lines i kind of cheated with the ghosting.
Probably it might be the sketchbook that made me do mediocre lines.
QUICK EDIT: For a bunch of weeks / few months of time i'll be able to use a pile of printer paper my dad has been keeping for years. It is the same format that my sketchbook uses and i assume even if it has got a pale yellowish (really it might be not too much noticeable so it is still as bright as possible). So for the time being the next few lessons i will be able to progress using that paper.
Hoping not to keep doing messy lines but i am afraid it might not make difference :/
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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