Line drawing warm-ups are always good. Shamelessly undoing lines in Krita! I think one of the biggest habit changes from this course is to always slightly hover the hand. Before, I always mushed the edge of my palm onto the surface and drew from the wrist. Now with a hovering hand, I can unlock the entire arm for wide sweeps. Perhaps a way to get comfortable with this is to hover the hand when using the computer mouse as well? Having a correct table height should also be considered for minimum fatigue. Another thing that might not just be specific to digital tablets is to combine this slight hover with transferring that weight to the stylus/pen. A passive relax/lean by pulling up the arm less, which can add to line weight, and doesn't require pushing the arm down into the paper. I learned this from "How to use a tablet without hurting your wrist" by "Pedes' scribbles". Also, I think it's very interesting that some straight lines you want to correct end up always having the same bends, because of certain weaknesses or biases in the arm assuming the body and the paper stay in the same place. The only way to fix it is to over-correct the bend in the other direction.

my warmup

My perspective boxes, all drqwn before the toom assignment just forgot to post. I used a ruler to rough out lines then outlined everything freehand. I ran out of my orange color pencil and only had green on me

i started out using a mechanical pencil but ran out of lead and switched to a 2H, so some lines are darker than others. Did not use a ruler. Need to keep practicing lines. My challenge was drawing another box further down the same axes. I had no problem with the side and top lines, but drawing the front facing rectangle kept looking slanted and not going in the right direction.

There's something abstractly beautiful about seeing objects all converge into a point, like staring down an endless pit, or at a giant cityscape. The wobbliness of my lines, inaccurate angles, and line quality definitely breaks that illusion in these warmups. Gonna be something I'll have to work on. I did have a question about the project - how light/blurry do lines get as they move further away into the distance? Is it a linear gradient or exponential depending on distance? Does it change depending on the thickness of the atmosphere (such as fog) and/or different levels and sources of lighting?

I love the animations some students did :D SO COOL!! I never studied perspective before so I’ve been working on it lately while watching other videos and exercises online. There are a TON of resources so it can get overwhelming really quickly because it feels like a REALLY DENSE topic. The good thing is that it seems like one of the most important fundamentals for achieving great drawings, so I’m really excited. This is probably going to be painful, but also really rewarding. I’ll also be attempting the “Drawabox 250 Boxes” challenge later on…

Rotated because phone.

Warm up boxes

Nice addition to the warm-up-routine!

Broke out the ol pen and paper for this one.

1 point perspective warm up - this revealed me on how bad my straight lines are. I guess I'll have a plenty of the straight line practices in this module :P

I'm still getting used to the iPad and apple pencil. It was especially hard to draw the bottom of the green box on the right above the horizon since its bottom lines are so close to each other.

Huh cool

I am feeling inspired to draw a Borg ship! Resistance is futile!

Warmup

This is neat!!

The perspective isn't a problem, but I still need serious help with my straight lines 😭. I used a ruler a bit here though 👀

Unsure on if these are drawn correctly. I think they are but I've always struggled with perspective in the past.

👋,Fun Excersise, Locked in on, line quality, subtle angles shifts & straights.🙌

Boxes, boxes, boxes. Who knew drawing them could be so much fun. Bonus discovery, using the overhand grip gives me much better control drawing straight lines.