Jumping into this course, also working with dip pen. I did extra practice on the sphere with different nibs. My 3-line-weight box may have a few edges with wonky perspective, I used manual tracing paper & graphite to transfer to some pen paper & probably introduced a few glitches.

Really exited for the course, here is my assignment, I tried to add a contour line to the face on the right behind the beveled extrusion since it wasn't clear at first what was it's orientation but I'm not sure if my execution was the best solution.

This a refresher for me after the robot class.

I am running a bit late. I did not realize this was a live course when I bought it, until I saw the critique notice. Will try to catch up. This was done with brush, india ink, a ruler... and white out. Any feed back is appreciated. I wondered about the extruding parts. Would we see the change in material to get the 2nd spring line? Thank you.

Here is my submission for the first assignment. I printed it out and drew right over it with my dip-pen (since thats the medium I use to do my student/university-comics). Unfortuanately I smudged it a little bit. Apologies for that.

I printed out Len's cube and drew directly on it. I used 6B for silhouette, 2b for parting, and 2H for spring/x contour lines. I included some questions about some of the choices I made. I, too, am confused about what is meant by using a silhouette line when "there is air behind it". (both pics show the same attempt; one just includes the questions and line key). I also included some attempts at drawing a linear "sphere". I used a circle template for some just so I could focus on the line weight and tapering. The rest are freehand. It was really difficult to alter the line weight and taper the ends, while leaving a space for the specular highlight. I really need to practice on 1) drawing circles, 2) drawing any line with a varying line weights and 3) creating lines (and circles) that start and end with a tapered edge.

This is my assignment submission. I drew the assignment download from scratch with a mechanical pencil, using a grid sheet and then transferred the drawing to a sheet of smooth bristol paper. I used a ruler for the straight lines and winged the curved corners freehand. The pens I used were Pentel Pointliner’s .8, .3, & .05. For the sphere page, I used a circle template tool that I had laying around, that I had never used before. I used the same Pentel pens that I used for the mechanical drawing with the addition of two more sizes being a .1 and a .5, and shifted the template for varying thicknesses of the line weight. As always, critiques are encouraged and welcome. Cheers!

Hello proko land! I am here to defile this nice clean comment section with my horrendous art... my apologies. So probably taking this opportunity to learn how to use my dip pens along with line weight is not the smartest move but... I have them... I would like to get better with them... so let's do this class with them. Shield your eyes!! To Start off with I decided to just do the circles and trying to follow along with the demo. First attempt free hand, second attempt with a ruler.... mostly. Got a wee impatient with last couple of lines. Don't think I nailed the clear contrast. I was using the thick flex tipped G-Nib for contour and parting lines and the stiff, ultra fine Maru nib for the spring lines, but I guess I was a tad too light with the medium lines because they look awfully close to spring lines. Big question is what is going on with that window? The silhouette, parting and spring lines don't make sense to me. We're not describing form with the inner frame, it's the inner frame, why not use the parting line? Also kind of confused by what we mean if there is air behind the object? That dark part of the frame is identical to the other, if we were looking from the other side. Yes? So are we talking about air as in the construction of the object or air in terms of only what the viewer sees? Not sure if any of that made sense but hey! It's nice to be posting in class comments again while the perspective course is on hiatus. Appreciate any thoughts and comments from one and all. Thank you, I'll be sure to post the rest of the assignment soon. Tools: Circle Template, LED tracing pad, French Curves, Ruler with quarters taped to it, Maru Nib, G-Nib, Speedball super black India ink, Papermate Sharp writer mechanical pencil, Neenah Exact Vellum Bristol. Notes: When I first got into dip pens someone on the internet recommended: Neenah Exact Vellum Bristol, to practice with. I disagree. This paper is pretty terrible with a lot of bleeding. Although far from great the cheap marker paper I use for illustrations holds the shape of the lines much better.