The final exercise of the Lines part of drawabox.com’s Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes is Planes. The exercise requires two pages of work and I have only done one, so I have one more to go.
A few observations:
- Rushing will always yield poor results. There is not a single time I rushed on the ghosting (drew in the air over the paper as I would when applying pen to paper) and it turned out well. Fast is bad.
- Every time I loosened my grip on the pen my line quality improved, and quite often my accuracy did, too.
- Likewise moving away from using the wrist, which is one of the main focus points of these exercises–to get you to draw using your shoulder and elbow, and not your wrist.
- Focusing on the ghosting made it easier to stop at the endpoint instead of overshooting it. As you can see, my focus needs work. 😛
- I did one plane using a ruler, so you can see what the page would look like it I had the precision of a robot or a really good artist. Or a really good artist robot named Drawbot 8000.
As mentioned before, when I finally complete Lesson 1 (in ten months), I am going to switch over to ctrlpaint.com’s traditional drawing lessons and try the first few there to see how they compare, then decide which one to go whole hog on. Because I never half-hog.
