Very cool! I’m curious to know if you did any under drawings or “construction drawings” for this?

These all look super cool! I think you got a bit to carried away in the details, or maybe more than a bit, which causes them to look super cool, but also causes the loss of those exaggerated CSI lines that Stan is looking for in this assignment. I wouldn’t worry too much about line thickness in this assignment, just the line shapes. These really do look awesome though. I’ll definitely be following your account to see what you create next.

These both look awesome. Great work! For the snail, I think it’s pretty good, the proportions are a bit off here and there but that’s no big deal in this assignment. I noticed a bit more proportional problems in the boot, but really the only way to fix those would be to redraw it, which they don’t matter enough to do that. You have a lot of good strong lines on this one, which is really good, however there are some particularly near the top that I would simplify even more. One thing to keep in mind is to keep it very clear what line is what type. The one on the far left in particular. I would just simplify that to an I line, or exaggerate the curves more to make it more clear. I hope this helped. Keep up the good work👏🏼

You did really good at making this not wonky with that tricky perspective and shape. Nice job!

Great drawing! And luckily this problem has an easy solution. All you need is a strong (preferably white) direct light source. Before I had my ring light, I would just flip a lamp over and use it as a spotlight. Here’s two example pics, in the first picture I just used my ceiling light. In the second one I used my ring light which I had set up about 1 1/2 feet above and to the right of my piece. Didn’t matter what other lights were on, because none of them could compete with the brightness of the ring light. hope this helped!

I don’t consider myself a pro at drawing straight lines either, but here’s some tips I wish I had known sooner. Your lines will be more straight and confident when you pull the pencil in your direction vs away from you. Speed is a huge part in line confidence, if you spend too much time trying to draw one straight line, than it’s gonna look shaky. Don’t draw from your fingers, don’t be afraid to use you wrist, elbow and even shoulder to help you get good lines. And lastly, don’t be afraid to use a ruler for those really long lines (such as the lines going all across the page in this piece) a ruler is a very helpful tool for any artist and it is totally ok to use. Anyways, I hope that was helpful. Keep practicing your lines, and have fun!