6:49 PM, Sunday January 10th 2021
Regarding your questions.
I agree that the wording of the sentence probably is unclear. There I tried to tell that in my view some of your ellipses are nor confident, nor accurate. Perhaps my critique is straight-forward but I never wanted to offend you.
Now about “drawing from shoulder” … I only have a few months of experience in drawing from shoulder that started with the “drawabox”. I mentioned “drawing from shoulder” in my critique to remind about it (since I know from my own experience that beginners in this “shoulder” field are not accustomed with it and they forget about it time to time). If I look back on my Lesson 1 submission, I can say that there is mixture of different pivots. Only now (while going through 250 box challenge) I started to get more accustomed to draw each line from shoulder with ‘locked’ wrist and elbow. However, I still need to remind myself on lighter pressure of pen. So far, I have followed only the instructions of the “drawabox”. What really helped me to understand “drawing from shoulder” is this video
and the exercise that is written here when you lock one pivot by one to feel them separately. So, this is my experience with “drawing from shoulder”. It hadn't even occurred to me to try on a larger page than A4 (until your question). Ha, ha, ha :) If you feel that you need some other advices/examples/experiences from other community members I think that you could ask your question here .
And now regarding your re-dos.
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straight Superimposed Lines now are much better, i.e., they are drawn with confidence - no wobbling. Great! Frying on the far end will reduce with practice. The arching of straight lines (that I found in your work) could be due to several reasons described here
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Tables of ellipses. It seems that you havn’t yet found rhythm and pace that fits the best for you to draw confident (and accurate) ellipses. Be careful that you are not confusing confidence with speed. Drawing confident line means execution of line without hesitation once preparation phases of ghosting method are completed. I would suggest watching also ScyllaStew’s live example of doing tables of ellipses (the links to these live examples are available on the bottom of each drawabox page immediately after “example homework”).
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Ghosted planes. Lines now are more confident than previously. In few cases there are a little arching of lines as they approach the end point but I think that you are on the right track :) Also in the ellipses in planes I see that you made more focus on preparation stages before execution of line (compared to the table of ellipses). That is good.
I wanted to suggest you to find the right speed for your ellipses during warm-ups while you are going through 250 box challenge, but I saw that you already submitted that challenge. So, let’s make one more try - finding the ideal speed for your confident ellipses.
Next Steps:
1 page of Tables of ellipses. It is enough to make table 6x2 (as it was in the example homework) without extra levels. Choose the orientation and the degree of the first ellipse. Then try to draw it very fast, then lower your speed to very slow (or vice versa). Fill first 3 rows wit that ellipse in different speeds. The next 3 rows try the same but with circle (in my opinion it is more difficult due to the wider movement of arm). Chose the best ellipse and circle - that is your ideal speed for them now. Make sure that you do not rush, ghost each individual ellipse/circle, focus also on ‘locking’ your wrist and elbow to achieve drawing from the shoulder. Good luck!
