argle523 in the post "LESSON 2: Organic Forms, Contour Lines, Dissections and Form Intersections"
2015-01-20 17:36
Alright. I'll definitely keep doing all of this stuff. Thanks again for all the feedback!
argle523 in the post "LESSON 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes"
2015-01-17 07:18
Yeah, I stopped the circles when I started getting tired this time around, though it's a different kind of tired (physical, where last time it was more mental & actual sleepiness).
And good catch on the "wrist" thing. I should have said "wrist/elbow", not just wrist. At this scale, drawing with my elbow as a pivot seems to be enough even for the biggest boxes that I drew... I actually just drew some lines and realized that if I have to, I guess I do slide my whole arm a bit to correct for the arc. I didn't realize I do that. Interesting. I think I probably would have used my shoulder even more if I hadn't been consciously resting it.
Is there really that much arcing in the cubes? I'm not really seeing it, especially not in the bigger cubes where it would be a more pronounced problem. I could just not be noticing it over the myriad of other problems I'm seeing in my cubes... Or did you just mention that based on what I had written?
argle523 in the post "LESSON 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes"
2015-01-14 15:11
Fair enough, I'll go ahead and do those in ink later and see what you think. The ink part won't take nearly as long anyway, and it doesn't hurt to do extra exercises.
What do you consider a "page" on paper? Is that letter or half-letter? Or more like tabloid?
argle523 in the post "LESSON 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes"
2015-01-14 05:47
I'm late to the party, but here's mine...
I know you recommend doing this in ink/paper, but my reason for re-visiting fundamentals is to get used to tablet drawing, and I like killing two birds with one stone. :)
I also realize I got lazy/distracted at some points, especially with the ellipses pages (I think I overdid the ones with tiny circles and just drew way too many circles overall...). So I'll probably make up for that by doing a page or so as warm-ups for lesson two.
Note that I just got this new tablet today, and I was still getting used to the new size of it during the lessons. I had been messing around more in depth with the one I have at work by taking it home for a week or so now. I'm a graphic designer that has a Intuos Pro 5 Small at work for occasional use for masking, retouching, and really rough sketching before going into vector work. That tiny Intuos (I believe its active area is around 6"x4" for a ~7.2" diagonal) on the 27" Thunderbolt Display at work is a drastically different experience from this 11.8" diagonal Monoprice on a 13" Macbook Air (my personal setup). I'm loving how close to 1:1 my personal setup is.
Anyway, I'll definitely have to re-do some of these quickly as warm-up for Lesson 2, which I'm really looking forward to doing. These lessons are really well done (I've skimmed most of them), and I'm looking forward to progressing through them. Thanks for taking the time to do this!
argle523 in the post "LESSON 3: Drawing Plants"
2015-01-24 16:28
Am I doing the first part right? I don't have time to continue the full homework right now, so I figured I would post these in case you get a chance to look at them before I get going on the rest. Thanks!