Thank you so much for your detailed feedback Chiran! I like the "box a day" idea; after having done 250, I think 1 box for warmup will be very manageable haha.
However, I must admit that I haven't done any of the Lesson 1 exercises for a while now. How often and how much should I be revisiting those?
You are Welcome Eagle. I'm glad that you found my critique Helpful.
For Warm ups, You can choose any 1-2 exercises which you need to Improve on from lesson 1 ( like for example If you chose Ellipses in planes and Super imposed lines Today and do it for 10-15 minutes striving towards the goal. Then you can Change to rough point perspective boxes and table of ellipses tomorrow. if In case, if you feel you need to practice more of super Imposed lines exercises then you can Incorporate these Instead of table of ellipses or Rough point perspective)
Above Is just an example, there are no hard and fast rule to do Warm ups. If you feel these exercises are need to be worked on then you need to practice them regularly in warm ups session before the beginning of your drawing session. I highly suggest to do warm ups consistently in order to maintain our skills sharp. if you are not able to provide some time to it You can do it in alternative two or three days. in that case at least providing 5- 10 minutes is enough In my opinion.
On the subject of revisiting the Lesson- We should revisit those articles and video lectures because most of time we tend to forget some points that are mentioned in those. I normally re visit the lessons articles around a 1- 2 months after completing those exercise. After that I will revisit them in after 2 month to refresh my memory and understanding of those lessons.
Doing critiques will definitely help in reinforcing our understanding of those lessons. So i highly suggest them.
So yeah Thank you soo much for your time and effort in responding to my feedback.
have a great year ahead!.
Right oh, that makes sense. I did find ellipses quite difficult in general, so I might focus on them for now.
Thanks for the advice Chiran! Hoping I can become a great critiquer like you one day!
Thats a great Idea. You will definitely Became even more greater critiquer ! the Consistency is the key here.
good luck Ahead! Awaiting to see your progress.
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