Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:41 AM, Monday July 13th 2020
(The sort of s shaped line that you see in the Line Homework is a hair that was in my scanner and anytime you see something crossed with an X or not done I did it as a way to mark mistakes that I felt I couldn't work with and move on.)
I've tried to learn how to draw better on and off for years but this lesson is probably the most substantial step in learning this skill that I've ever done.
I want to use this comment box as a space to reflect on the work and leave my thoughts.
Lines
I think I lack patience when ghosting my lines. either I tend to just ghost just a few time which results in overshooting Or I wobble a bit when I hesitate.
Ellipses
I couldn't get a clean ellipse I always had a line sticking out cause I was mostly just drawing around 2-3 times.
Boxes...
I think I really screwed up here. I thought I understood 3D, because I have a very visual thought process where I can imagine things in my mind very vividly but drawing on paper was really hard for me. The rough perspective came out rough cause I had about a 2 month gap and I was basically remembering everything as I worked it through. You can kinda see it in the order that the assignments were done.
I understood that the last 2 assignments for boxes are intended to be harder than normal but I still felt like I could have done better. I think for rotating boxes I wasn't really taking into the vanishing points, how it relates to the rotations and ended up drawing out crappy cubes to fill out the page irrespective of the rotation. I realized that I screwed up and I wanted to do it again but I realized I'm not good enough to do this better yet so its better to take the L and move on. Same goes for Organic Perspective my brain kinda broke at this point and I had no idea what I was doing.
I think I need to space out these assignments for next time. every group of assignments was done essentially all in one sitting if I recall. I think I was burning myself out at the end and I end up doing sloppier execution.
To whoever critques this do you have any advice to applying the lesson material to personal drawings? Whenever I draw/doodle on my own I tend to go into symbol drawing. Is it too early to worry about this? Sorry if this is a lot of text.