Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
3:17 AM, Monday July 27th 2020
Homework for Lesson 1.
Hi there, I like how your lines have a lot of flow to it, especially Organic Perspective you did.
Having said that, I feel that you could benefit from slowing down a bit, in terms of putting down marks.
Here are a few points I noticed:
Your superimposed lines and ghosted line exercise often miss the end point, which means you probably will benefit from a) steadying your wrist and drawing from your shoulder, b) slowing down the speed of the pen a little, and c) doing a few more 'strokes in the air' before you put your pen down. If you try this, I think you'll see improvement quite quickly.
Ellipses: all the ellipses are drawn through a few times as instructed, which is good. Again, like I said in the beginning, I personally like the flowyness of your lines, but the scale is tipped towards speed/flow and away from precision. I suggest the same three points I mentioned above to hit a good balance between flow and precision.
2-point (plotted) perspective: nicely done :)
Rough Perspective: this is a hard one. But you seem to have gotten the hang of it and you also went over with red yourself, so well done.
Rotated Boxes: Again, tough one, but you managed it. I guess you could add another layer of boxes at the back for the sake of completeness, but I guess that's not strictly necessary.
Organic Perspective 1: The distortion is somewhat strong, but I like how there is a lot of dynamism to how the boxes twist and turn.
Next Steps:
Next steps: there are a lot of opportunity to practice mark making further in Draw A Box exercises. Take your time with your lines, and take breaks when you get bored/impatient and start again when you've rested!
Happy learning :)
Thanks a bunch! I also forgot that I should probably be warming up - definitely going to slow down in the future and really prioritize drawing from the shoulder. Appreciate the feedback.
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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