Cylinders

This is maybe the baseline where I'm starting from. Before beginning the actual course I was trying to get familiar with the iPad and the pencil by drawing some type of cylinders.

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After starting the course, right off the bat the first obstacle has been drawing parallel lines and ellipses.

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I've been alternating between plain cylinders and the skeletons and at some point tried to start deforming the cylinders a bit and adding some shading.

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Here's the second attempt at shading:

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I learned that adding shading makes the process go much slower and right now that's maybe not the best use of my time.

Here's where I'm currently at with just plain cylinders:

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Skeletons

Not much to say about these cylinder skeletons. Here's a quick sampling from first to latest.

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So far everything has been drawn on top of a reference image. I tried to draw a few from reference, but the end result was way off compared to the reference. So I think I'll try that again next. There will be some stuff about measurements later in term 1, which will probably help me get a better grasp of that.

I feel the main issue with my skeletons is that they don't feel very three-dimensional. For that reason I've been alternating between drawing skeletons and drawing just plain cylinders (to improve how I draw the cylinders themselves). I'll also try to pay attention to what kind of reference images I pick.

Proportions

This post completes the initial upload of the exercises. Here's my first attempt at the proportions exercise:

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Here's the latest:

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So far I've done a few, each one following the class and using the grid. On each one I've picked up some more details I missed or got wrong on the earlier tries.

Observations:

• I tend to gravitate towards a clean-ish look, but that might steal focus away from the actual proportions and for me it makes the exercise take longer (although right now any kind of drawing counts as an exercise in lines and using the pen ). I might aim for more of a rougher sketch as I continue.
• I also find it difficult to draw without zooming in, and on some attempts that led to symmetry and size issues, I suppose due to losing perspective of the overall picture. I could try a few where I keep the entire paper in view and this might go nicely with the sketching approach.

Next goal: Try to get faster at this and complete a few more, then try from memory.