05 Sep 20:03
--9 months Olooriel, off and on, but most days I do a page of circles and ellipses.. still can't nail them everytime
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05 Sep 20:01
--digital has many many hacks and 'cheats' to it, but to perform them /well/ requires knowledge, and skill.. I think if you want to do it that way it's all cool, but being able to get close enough freehand is really useful
05 Sep 20:01
--I did nothing else for one week, never again since then :D totally worth it though
05 Sep 20:00
--It's a good exercise to practice drawing circles, ellipses and lines. It helps to build line quality. Or so I hear ;D
05 Sep 19:59
--I gave up on trying to draw them in boxes for now, as long as I can't draw either the box or the ellipse on their own, there's not really a point trying to mix the two
05 Sep 19:59
--One pro of digital - it's not /really/ cheating. It's being resourceful :D
05 Sep 19:58
--try practising drawing circles and ellipses inside boxes and rectangles divided into quarters, each quarter point is a place you need to hit .. I have spent wayyyyyy way huge amounts of time trying to perfect elipses.. still can't get em, but wip
05 Sep 19:57
--Yep, I definitely do more expressive sketching and erase it all back instead of structured 'skeleton grids'.
05 Sep 19:56
--there is a point in spongebob though, through erasing you can get good stable lines
05 Sep 19:56
--draw one quarter - make sure you have a right angle, major and minor axis, and then just trace the other 4 quarters from the first one
05 Sep 19:55
--Olooriel for ellipses, take a ballpen and 500-1000 sheets of copy paper. when you're through, you're gonna be halfway decent at it
05 Sep 19:50
--I started reading, and then went "i need that bloody brush to reproduce any of those line exercises..but interesting read
05 Sep 19:49
--gonna try to get thr this book in preperation: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45410
05 Sep 19:48
--put 'nix on it, it'll run way faster - mint is probably the best if it's a laptop
05 Sep 19:48
--Cool, I need to wipe my computer before I download any more software. It's suffering I think.