Well I am late for submitting the assignment but here is my submission. I was able to do make lines intersect in the center but they are wobbly. Also the points on the circle are not exactly where they should be

Well you warned me that I would suck if I'm new to this and well... I certainly met those expectations XD. Not sure what's worse. Line quality or my inability to eyeball measurements into thirds. Not sure if I should be worried about how long it takes me as well? 2 hours for only13 circles seems like a mistake.... seeing how they turned out maybe I should be taking longer?

Hey, Marsh, that's a fun exercise! Thanks for including my drawing from the last assignment! ;-D

I did some tests first at a smaller rate and all in pen so I commit to my lines and see if push or pull made me more accurate. The big test was to see how close I was in my guessing. Some were darn close! I may later on this paper to train my eyes with overlapping lines.

Some line practice with the degrees of the circle and Peter Han's exercise from a few lessons ago.

Days 3,4,5 and 6, making circles is getting so much easier and I can make them with fine lines now. Straight lines on the other hand, well I came up with a map for the angle and direction of the strokes. This practice is not about circles and lines, it is about trusting your guts.

Missed the deadilne by a day. I suck at this. That said, I did learn how to do the triangle for divisions and that was fun... I am doing these circles every day, even though it's my 19th nervous breakdown, a ton of nightmares and more days of going at it!

Here are some of the circles I did. It is actually quite difficult to do them freehand. hope i can still make it into the video!

Here is my practice of bisecting circles from today. I think I need to continue practicing this regularly to get stronger at accuracy and have better co tell. I’m not sure if it can be seen from the drawing but I noticed that I was having the most difficulty with the lines going SW to NE (or going from NE to SW, I tried various line directions). It seemed that those line had more curvature or incorrect angles to them than the other lines. I also tried doing some slow and faster lines. It felt easier to be more accurate when drawing slower but not always. Sometimes it the line went way off when trying to concentrate too hard on it or when I looked directly at the pencil point instead of where the line was starting and stopping. I look forward to doing some more practice and hopefully improving my accuracy.

Here are some warmups done over the last couple days. Some with pencil, some with pen, and some digitally (gotta mix it up). The hardest part is making sure each line intersects in the middle accurately. I've realized that with different sized circles, I have to take different approaches to make them as accurate as possible. Of course, smaller circles are easier, so my tunnel vision tends to prefer them better. But I want to kick that, so I tried to fit in as many bigger circles where possible. For big circles, plotting out the beginning and end and looking at my destination, not where my pencil is traveling, leads to better results. It changes too; sometimes looking at the entire circle leads to better results, sometimes focusing on the split parts of the circle makes them better. It fluctuates. Is this normal? My lines are wobbly too; a mix of both line confidence and trying to strike the balance of accuracy vs speed. Just gotta keep hammering it down Also threw in some miscellaneous warmups doodles to spice things up inbetween. Cheers!

Yikes… 😅 I found the 15 to 75 angles the most awkward to do, ironically in a few of the circles those angles look the neatest. It was a relaxing exercise! I experimented with pushing and pulling, fast and loose and slow and controlled. When I do this exercise again I’m going to try and be more light with the pencil and experiment with having the paper on a flat surface instead of an easel. I’m definitely going to implement this into my routine!! Looking forward to seeing improvement.

Took an experimental approach to this assignment. Accepting the challenge, I went for total freehand - ink, freehand circles and of course, freehand lines pulled with no paper rotation - picture one. Feeling quietly confident, I then did a red pen, compass and protractor analysis of a random but representative sample - picture two. Results: - on average lines are out by 2.27 deg - maximum error was up to 5 deg - largest errors seemed to be over the NW to SE axis which happens to be normal to my most comfortable SW to NE line pull orientation - the proportion of +ve vs -ve error is 44% vs 56% respectively - my ‘perfect’ zero angle error was a lackluster 14% - my ‘perfect’ straight line (same error/no error on exact opposite) proportion was a dismal 12.5% I now have a quantitative baseline for analysis of future improvement….however, feeling a little disappointed at my performance and the need for a more rapid improvement to bring back that misplaced confidence, I suddenly remembered university days, shooting pool in the student bar on a Friday evening. As we all know, an optimal intake of alcohol, just enough, but not too much, places one in the ‘beer window’ where you become pretty much unstoppable. Purely for research purposes, I decided to try getting into the beer window for this assignment. With lucky red pen in hand, 6 cans of moderate strength lager downed and feeling invincible, I set pen to paper and what a result! Nailed it! Freehand circle division mastery - picture 3. I defy any and all to find even 1/10th of a degree error… N.B. I definitely did not go back a few videos, pick up 📐 and 📏 and pair of compasses and cheat…though my recollection is a little hazy.

3 ain't much, I know, but it's the most I can do tonight. Top left and right have 8 strokes, bottom left has 4.

Interesting Exercise. As you can see I couldn't rotate the paper, but ended up rotating myself around it, 😂. In my case I have more stability pulling at the rhythm of my exhale. Also, doing the airplane landing and launching technique when I pull the pencil when drawing the line helps a lot. I learned that Airplane technique from Wood burning courses, and it works in drawing the same! The thickness and feel of the marking instrument is essential for control. I used two different tools, I found out the thicker one is harder for controlled lines, while the mechanical pencil was a breeze. So, lesson learned, the instrument is vital for the type of work we want to do, duh...I tested my pluck and can say: Thank you for this challenge! PS: I don't have a compass but used different lids for two dimensions. Small and Medium. I will look around for a bigger circle, to try again. Definitely it will take a longer exhale, will have to train those lungs, 😂

Hi, I’m sharing a few pages with an exercise. I originally knew this exercise in a version without drawing the circle. Just placing a dot and crossing straight lines. Here, it allows for more intentional and predictive work. I also have a question. What do you think about switching from a pencil to a pen to make marks more deliberately? I’m not talking about while practicing, but during actual drawing sessions. Let me know what you think!

Finally submitted the assignment before the deadline! This was way harder than Peter's straight-line practice! I’ve noticed that when I focus less on the tip of my pencil and more on the overall path of the line, the result tends to be straighter and smoother. Interestingly, my second attempt (on the right) looks worse than my first attempt (on the left). This also happens with Peter's straight-line practice, and I’m not sure why. It can be a bit discouraging to see things getting worse instead of improving lol.

I enjoy using spare graph paper to practice straight lines, it’s almost meditative. A self critique; I need to remind myself to extend my forearm on longer strokes, I’m too used to working small and therefore putting pressure on my wrist and elbow joints.

1 down 999 to go 😜 this took about 30 min. While waiting for my kiddo’s music lesson. I will use a compass in the future. I struggled with my first few attempts at the illusions, but will keep trying and hopefully my brain will start to accept how to dissect them. take care and I am uncomfortably enjoying this class and I am looking forward to see the growth in my understanding of perspective.

Amazing how such small movements can wear the arm down :)