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9:14 PM, Thursday August 27th 2020

I love these new pages, what an amazing progression! You really corrected everything!

Arrows: Notice how even though the line weight in your arrows isn't that precise, they still look far better than before. The precision wasn't really the problem. The problem was the amount of line weight you put before, and now that that you have limited the amount of passes they feel much more alive. I also noticed you're now slanting the edges, which probably has contributed to make them more organic. However, you're slanting them only in a fashion that kinda undermines the foreshortening, in the sense that they feel wider in the "side" farther from us. That doesn't mean these are less valid, but try to make some bending in the other direction too in the future.

Dissections: look how clean the edges are now! So much more pleasant to see.

Form intersections: now that the line weight is applied only locally, the whole feels clearer. I see you're struggling with intersections with curved forms, but that will improve with time as long as you keep practicing the exercise and try weirder intersections.

Thank you for the nice comments about my submission! Still, you're far from right when you say my superimposed lines are good, just zoom at some the arrows haha. In fact, some edges have quite an amount of passes, but I've already corrected that, just as you have.

Some answers to other stuff:

  • when I have to draw small things with the shoulder, I lose a lot of precision

It's normal, but you should still do it. Confidence before accuracy. I'm now doing lesson 3 and I completely destroyed one of the drawings because I started doing very small circles with the wrist. It just looks SO WRONG for some reason.

  • and when I come out of the exercises, in production or something else, I become hesitant again...

Don't worry about that as long as you're doing it right inside the lessons. As you internalize the concepts they will begin to show everywhere else. And anyway, we hardly ever need all this rigor outside of these lessons. It's more about changing your mindset than your actual process.

  • About the transition, however, I think I am quite close to the examples in the lesson, but I see what you mean and being more gradual could also be done.

I don't think the examples mean to show the best quality possible, but instead to show effectively the main points of the lesson.

  • how fast do you make your lines ? The fastest you can ?

Fast enough so I can't think when I'm marking, but definitely not as fast as I can. The best tip I can give you is to make the lines as slow as possible as long as they don't have any wobbliness.

  • and how fast do you make your superimposed lines ? As fast as the first one or slower ?

I'd say as fast as the original one. Until a few days ago I was doing curved lines a bit slower and I would get wobbliness regularly, but because I'm now with lesson 3 and in this lesson flow is the top priority, I've been forced to change this bad habit.

  • do you touch the sheet with your palm when you’re drawing ? Or are you totally free hand ?

I hover because I usually put too much pressure when I support my palm with the page. And when i do use touch the page it's very lightly.

  • do you work on a inclined plan (draw table) or flat ?

Flat. Though I tried an inclined table in the past and I noticed my circles were looking better, so I'll probably buy one in the future. Still not a priority.

  • are you russian (I'm french) ? Your rough drafts look like role-playing character sheets, and with Cyrillic fonts ? Wich role playing game ?

Which rough drafts? Cirillic fonts? I don't know what you're talking about ahah. I'm not russian nor french.

I do have an art instagram, but only close friends follow me for now. Hope you understand, and anyway I'm sure you'd be disappointed haha.

Next Steps:

In my opinion, you definitely pass the lesson, let's hope other users agree! Remember, of course, to keep practicing all of these exercises as you move onto lesson 3.

That being said, I haven't seen if you've corrected the sausages. You don't have to post them here, but make sure to apply the feedback to them as well, because with your latest improvements in the arrows, textures and intersections they have now become your weakest exercise!

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
10:16 PM, Thursday August 27th 2020

Thank you for all your answers !

Concerning the question of nationality, it is your third page (https://imgur.com/a/RINhIC0), we can see some writings through the page, which made me think of cyrillic and role play...

Have a nice journey on DrawABox.

8:04 AM, Friday August 28th 2020

Well, you see, I try to recycle as much paper as possible so I'm always asking people for pages with a blank side that they don't need anymore. Those pages in particular were given to me by a friend who does role play.

You too have a great journey, keep putting this same amount of effort and I'm sure you'll get where you want in art!

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