Learning

[DarlingDove]

Hello and thanks for the supportive comment! Also thank you for the advice. Sometimes I feel this 'uncertainty' on what to practice or how to balance the subjects out. But right now I'm definitely looking to improve my accuracy, line quality and perspective drawings.

Good news! My scanner just came in and now I can scan things, no more bad quality photos!

I think that's a great way to start. There are a lot of things to juggle, especially if you start painting as well, I know the feeling. But starting with basic drawing skills is good (doing the same currently).

Maybe someone already recommended this, but draw-a-box is great! I find that especially the first lesson is a good addition to Scott Robertson. He moves quite fast into perspective and more difficult stuff, while having a good understanding of boxes in perspective is important to procceed and draw-a-box offers a few exercises that helped me a lot.

And keep up the doodles, it keeps things fun :)

Thank you! I feel comfortable too getting to know the first steps more and be familiar with it instead of jumping to the next areas, though I do it time to time to keep things interesting.

So far I'm doing those lines. First I plan them out and after watching Bobby Chiu's video, I decided to take most of my time planning the lines and it worked! Better quality lines. I'm also using a felt tip marker and going to ditch the pencil.. I'm holding the pen at a 90 degree angle. Right now I'm familiarizing with dotted lines then I'll go to those one points again.
I don't have any pictures (because I figured they were just lines and it was a bit pointless) but I'll definitely show my one points after a few days of practicing solely on lines.