Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
9:44 PM, Monday October 7th 2024
Thank you Drawabox Team,
enclosed please find my homework for lesson 1.
I have been quite late to learning to draw being now 31 years old. I have previously started drawabox a couple of years ago but made all the mistakes Comfy (did not stick to starting with lessen 0 etc.) and stopped before finishing lesson 1.
I still have some questions:
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I am a leftie. I noticed that in Uncomfortables demos on lines they make a mark wen pushing their hand away from them. And many other videos show people marking lines in that same manner. I myself have however found it to be more comfortable to make marks in pulling the pen towards me. Is this a technique that will hold me back in the long run or is it fine to do so? The advantage it has for me is that I can see the end of my mark clearly.
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A next question i have concerns development of art skills in general. Specifically I am asking myself in which beadth versus depth to pursue my journey. At this point I enjoy and would like to emulate many aspects of art including portraiture, figure drawing/character design, concept art in different mediums including digital art as well as more traditional media (such as oil and goache). There are so many books and resources for everything and I am quite frankly a bit overwhelmed. My approach at this moment is to focus on one aspect (for my 50% rule drawings within drawabox) which is drawing faces. Still I wonder, how can one structure their approach in face of so many options and so much frankly overwhelming possibilities?
I am looking forward to your cirtique
Thank you.
Marius





