Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
3:16 AM, Monday October 17th 2022
I DID IT
IT TOOK TOO LONG BUT I DID DO IT
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7:39 AM, Tuesday October 18th 2022
Quite fancy the improvement of the superimposed lines when looking at the second drawing.
In the ghosted lines and ghosted planes exercises, it seems that you're prioritising accuracy instead of flow (the main goal here), hence the wobbly lines, albeit there are some developments in the last drawing.
The ellipse exercises also present a similar mistake, you should try to practice (but of course, don't grind) draw ellipses on a piece of paper without anything that defines the shape and size of the ellipses, just make sure the hand movement is smooth and natural.
From what I can see in the rough perspective exercise, youe some lines that points too far away from the vanishing point, make sure to check that, otherwise the rest are pretty fine, just make sure to, again, put flow above anything as you still are too focused into the accuracy.
The rotating boxes are, well, very disoriented, you may want to try to watch/read the exercise video/article again to try to grasp the methods.
In the organic perspective, you appear to draw trapeze boxes from time to time. If I remember correctly, we're trying to draw mostly rectangular boxes here so you can try practicing it little by little if you can.
Remember, flow > accuracy.
Next Steps:
Redraw the rotating boxes, but try drafting it partially on a random piece of paper to understand how the boxes are to be drawn before beginning with the exercise.
Try to improve your flow first, then accuracy on draft papers too.
11:32 PM, Monday December 26th 2022
Thanks for taking the time to critique my work. I'm so glad that I finally got around to doing this. I said to myself I wouldn't buy a drawing book or a tablet until I finished lesson one when I first started drawabox so it's looming over me for a while.
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