Hi, I'm new to drawing. So far I have been just colouring (colouring books for adults) and for a long time I have wanted to be able to do my own drawings. I'm eager to learn:) I have finally finished lesson 1. The rotated bixes exercise gave me a real headache! It is not good. Shall I do it again? I will be greatful for critique of my homework.
Hello Marcelina,
Lines
Superimposed and ghosted lines look nice, although there is some arching. Make shure you are using your shoulder to draw, also try do more variety in the size.
Elipses
Your planes look good but there is more wobblying in them , remember confidance over accuracy, this is also notisable on your elipses. While they are very accurate they are also very wobbly. I cant stress enogh how important it is to focus on the fluidity of the line/elipse over the accuracy, you will miss, but accuracy will come in time and repetition.
Also focusing too much on touching the edges makes elipses look more square like.
Funnels are very nicely aligned.
Boxes
Rotated boxxes is a very difficult excercise, there are quite a few issues here but over time you will improve so dont worry. First your corners are not aligned for the most part, the spaces in between boxes should be equidistant and aligned ttps://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/9a16c189.jpg . Also some boxes seem to not be rotating https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/d73eea49.jpg id recomend reading the boxes section again carefully before moving forward.
On organic perspective i notice you did some "corrections" by drawing over your mistakes, dont do this , you need to see your mistakes and then move on, dont dwell on them nor skratch them off, it can make it harder to see them.
Over all i think this is a very nice first lesson, you still have a long way to go but that is completly normal, this is not an easy course, it is very repetitive so if you dont usually DRAW for fun, you should start, even if the result is not "perfect" (whatever that means to you) you should do it and have FUN, just like when colouring. Remember the 50 50 rule (50% drawing for fun and 50% course work)
Next Steps:
Move forward with 250 Box challenge, read over the box section carefully and remember the 50 50 rule particularlly for this challenge. Good luck
Thank you very much for your critique. I'm going to repeat the rotating boxes exercises soon. As for the 50/50 rule I forgot about that and luckly somebody mentioned about it on discord so I'm already working on my second picture:) I didn't realize this course would be so difficult, but I'm not discouraged:)
Just remember to take your time, this is no race and no one will rush you, in the end you are your own teacher and while the course has a guide there is no time frame, i know people took 2 years yo finish it and people who took 6 months (this is insane).
So just go at your own pace and youll be fine and improve your fundamental skills.
I won't rush- I have a 2-year-old at home ;)
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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