Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
7:26 PM, Wednesday April 22nd 2020
Some annotations that I made in the process and at the end:
Lines. I felt uncomfortable to do the first straight lines. I think it would be just straight lines, but I see the example, so I was do some curvy lines. In one of them I really see I messed up. So, in the next ones I tried to no over think (just pay more attention). Because that one curvy line I did not like, I do another sheet of lines, but finally I decide to put the first one, because it made me pay more attention. Sometimes I wonder when I feel comfortable and secure about the line trace and when I just do by doing.
Ghosted lines. First I just do it, I feel super uncomfortable. But, line after line I prepare by ghosting a Little more. Sometimes I fail, if I concentrated about the fail I mistaken more in the next lines, so it was an exercise for breath, draw, analyze and move on for improve.
Rotated boxes. Mentally I had a lot of resistance to perform this exercise, in the end I managed to get in front of the sheet and try it. I constantly reminded myself of what I said in the lesson, "You just have to finish it." In the end I realized that I had made one more box on each side of each quadrant, so in the end it seems to me a little overloaded.
Organic boxes. I also resisted doing it a bit and there are things that I hope will be clearer to me in the 250 boxes challenge. It was really difficult to understand all that information because there are words that I do not know and that when translated in Google sound out of context to me.
In the end, I think that learning, in addition to being "technical", is that the ultimate goal of drawing is to express myself and enjoy the process in between, no matter how difficult it feels. Wanting to make it perfect and not facing it doesn't help me move forward.
Thank you. Greetings from MX