Hey everyone, it's time for a new post!

Here are my line exercises for today!

These came out okay, save for a few wiggly bits, I tried to vary the lengths a little bit more to get used to the feeling. I'm pretty satisfied with them though!

That's all for tonight, check back tomorrow for something new!

Hey everyone, it's time for a new post!

Here are my line exercises for today.

These look alright, I had a couple of mistakes due to pad movement, but they're okay overall. I was so focused on getting the lines straight I forgot to keep the pad in place!

That's all for tonight, check back tomorrow for something new!

Hey everyone, it's time for a new post!

What I've got for you today is a little different than what I've posted the last few nights. Take a look!

So this might just look like a bunch of line segments, and it kind of is just a bunch of line segments, but it is also a means of improving my mechanical drawing ability! The task I had to complete was to draw two points and connect them, but before connecting each point I had to move my pen above the paper, teaching my muscles the motion before I made it. Kinda neat, right? I've never had a hard time with drawing organic free-flowing lines, but straight lines have always been kind of tough, so this coupled with my last exercises has vastly improved my confidence in drawing them. I'm going to be doing a couple more of these over the next few days, so that I can continue to get a feel for what goes into the motion of a line.

That's all for tonight, check back tomorrow for something new!

Hey everyone, it's time for another update!

Here are my line exercises for today.

Today's lines are a bit of a mixed bag, I think that's due to my own fatigue however, this was one long week! I'm very happy with the smallest lines, they're definitely the best of the bunch. I also think the lines underneath those look pretty good too. I feel like I made quite a few strokes that matched the original line perfectly, but it's hard to appreciate that fact because all you can see in the end are my mistakes. The longest lines are alright, but my squiggly lines are kinda all over the place. Guess that's what happens when you're tired, haha!

I think this is about enough of these exercises, time to move onto something new tomorrow, check back to see how it goes!

Hey everyone, it's time for another update!

Here are my line exercises for today.

These look even better than the ones I did yesterday! I'm pretty happy about that. The smallest lines are still the straightest, but there were quite a few strokes in the middle and bottom that I laid right on top of the guidelines. They just ended up getting concealed by the sloppier strokes! Well, that's all for tonight. I'm not sure how many more days I'll be doing these, there are a few other exercises for me to complete in lesson one, so I can't spend forever on this. I think this is important enough to spend a good amount of time on though, so I'll probably stop once I stop seeing any appreciable differences. Hopefully that doesn't take too long!

Hey everyone, it's time for another update!

Here are my line exercises for today.

Seems like these turned out slightly better than the ones I did yesterday. Or maybe they just don't look as bad because there's a little more space in between the lines? Haha! Oh well, that's all for tonight. Got more of these to do tomorrow, so yeah, fun stuff!

Hey everyone, it's time for a new month, and that means a new theme!

I started this year with the intention to post one finished piece of art on my blog each day, and though my daily updates won't be changing, I want to do some things a little differently. I'd like to use this space to showcase things I'm learning, everything I've done up to this point has been me fumbling around in the dark. Speaking of fumbling, I was doing just that around the internet and found a link to this really cool site, it's called drawabox. There are a whole bunch of neat lessons on there that are based on instruction from an artist I wanted to take an online class with! I think this will be a good way for me to learn more, and get better, instead of just working toward some vague goal that I won't really know if I've achieved. So for the next however long this takes I'm going to be working on the lessons and homework assignments assigned on that site, and post my work here.

Alright, now that I got that giant disclaimer out of the way, let's see what I did! I'm going through each and every one of these lessons, so I'm starting at the start with lesson 1. It's all about lines, ellipses and boxes.

My homework for the first part of the lesson is to draw several 2" lines (I did 10), several lines that were half a page in width (10 again), and some lines that stretched the full width of the page (I think you know how many I did by now). All of these lines were drawn with a ruler. Once that was finished, I went over each line by hand 8 times, to test and improve my mechanical drawing ability. I also added some squiggly lines to trace over as well. Let's see how it turned out!

I think these came out pretty good, it might seem kind of easy at first, but it's pretty hard to go over everything exactly right 8 times! As you can probably tell I had a little trouble. The first set of lines (the short ones on top) were made by moving my hand from the wrist. Those were definitely my cleanest lines, mostly because I tend to draw small and you don't need to involve a whole lot of the arm to do so. My next set of lines were drawn by me moving my forearm from the elbow, those came out pretty sloppy, but I also think they were scrunched a little too close together. Finally the last lines were made by me moving my arm from the shoulder, that way I could move across the page and keep my lines straight. Trying to do that from the wrist or elbow would have created a lot of sketchy lines.

I'm gonna keep doing these for the rest of the week, so I'm sorry if these next few posts won't be terribly exciting, haha! I know this is going to benefit me and my art in the long run, but it might not be super fun to look at right now. The next lesson's gonna be pretty neat though, it's on organic forms, and those are kinda my favorite things! But there might be a month of squiggly lines and boxes before that, so yeah.

Check back tomorrow if you want to see my progress! Thanks for stopping by tonight!