7:40 PM, Tuesday December 22nd 2020
Alright Guinea pig #2 for critiques. I want to offer my sincerest apologies before we begin... Good Lord you're using a sketchbook!! What is that 25 - 50 cents a page? My man! or Women!! Do yourself a favor and buy some cheap copy paper and stick it in a folder. Buy yourself a sandwich with that extra money! What's that? I'm projecting my broke ass problems on other people? Fine let's move on.... (as I eat my 300th PB&J of this year)
Superimpose Lines: Solid. You start the line carefully and let a rip. There does seem to be some arching but since this is a warm up exercise I'm sure it will improve over time. Just remember to tilt your page ina a comfortable position.
Ghosted Lines: Solid strokes with some over and undershoots, along with some arching lines. Again a warm up exercise, after hundred times you'll get better.
Ghosted Planes & Ellipses in Planes: This got me too! In the video and the lesson the instructor clearly says use your Ghosted planes for the Ellipse exercise but the concession in the community is that they are two separate exercises and should be treated as such. I like how you play with extreme angles just remember the instruction are to only go over the ellipse twice, three times max. On a side note I find this to be the best warmup exercise if I'm short on time. It helps with line quality, ellipses, and also gives you room to mess around with perspective and distortion.
Table of Ellipses: 2 full pages and again a good variety of sizes. Some of the line work gets wobbly though. Remember to position you page in a comfortable position and use those big muscles in your arm.
Funnels: Solid. All of the ellipses are touching with minimal overlap and they seem to fall on the minor axis correctly, creating two equal halves.
Plotted Perspective: Spot on.
Rough Perspective: Solid. You seem to understand the exercise well. Most of your problems will be solved with better line quality, which again will come naturally with practice and implementing these lesson into a regular warm-up.
Rotated Boxes: Impressive. The boxes are tight and maintiant the illusion that they are of similar size despite the distortion of them falling away from the page. Some of the bottom ones look off but overall a very nice effort.
Organic Perspective: Again not to club a dead horse but you clearly understand the exercise, with the boxes becoming smaller to bigger as you follow a curve. Line quality will improve with time.
Overall Thoughts: Evertyhing looks in order. My suggestion would be to make sure your implementing the lessons into a regular warm-up. I typically take 15 - 30 minutes before I start a lesson or do any free drawing (And looking at my drawings I should probably make an effort to draw more during the week.) Also I would say don't be a slave to a sketchbook. If you enjoy it and it's comfortable then by all means stick with it. I found it much more beneficial to take copy paper, (about a cent a page) and taping it to a drawing board. That way I can rotate, tilt, and dictate where the page will fall in my eye-line in any which way. Again if your comfortable and you enjoy the art being in a sketchbook that's all that really matters.
So yeah... critique # 2 in the books. Good work and hope to see you in lesson two. Till then, Cheers and Happy Drawing.