Headhunter09 in the post "Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes"
2016-12-28 03:00
I didn't realize how much I would find myself improving over the course of these exercises:
Sorry about the green markup, I wanted to force myself to focus on my errors and consciously adjust my behavior to fix them. Alas, by the end I was still having trouble remembering to carefully plan out every stroke and avoid trying to correct minor mistakes with more strokes.
Overall I'm frustrated at my lack of patience.
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Headhunter09 in the post "250 Box Challenge"
2017-01-19 06:15
250 boxes! http://imgur.com/a/Be0QJ
I think the thing I struggled with most was line weight. When I tried ghosting and drawing smoothly, I almost always messed up the cleanliness of the form. When I tried increasing line weight slowly, the lines came out wobbly (obviously). Is this just a practice thing, or am I missing something?
Also, towards the end my lines get a lot sloppier. Part of this was a lack of patience, but I think it was also due to switching to working at a standing desk and in a notebook, making my hand less supported and the page less stable.
Anyways, I'm not super happy with the linework, but I definitely feel more comfortable with how boxes behave in perspective and translate onto the page.