Congratulations on finishing this hell! Your convergences generally look pretty great! If you haven't checked out Scyllastew's video on how to draw a box, I'd suggest watching that video as well, it may give you some new insights to further improve your convergences. tldw; it basically boils down to plotting every point/dot (corner) of the box after drawing the initial Y, and you can put down multiple dots if you see that your initial dot would result in an inaccurate convergence (when ghosting). I see you sometimes overshoot your lines. For now it's perfectly fine, but one piece of advise I can give you (besides that you should read one piece), is to execute your mark a little more slowly, and keep your eye fixed on the dot you want to reach. You can try this out in a warmup so there's no pressure of needing to achieve perfect results. This method has not only helped me get straighter lines, it also resulted in me not overshooting as often.
I also noticed that you tend to draw over your already executed marks at many times. The whole idea of using a pen instead of pencil is to commit to your marks, and once you f up, you need to act as if the mark is correct. It'll force you to ghost more, but also to face your failures much more. I know it's difficult and frustrating, but every time you notice wanting to correct your mistake, put your pen down and take a break!
I think your submission all in all is really solid, your lines are basically always straight as an arrow, super dope!
Next Steps:
I noticed you also already finished lesson 2 so I'm not going to send you there. I'd try to refrain from finishing all of your homework from subsequent lessons until you've received a critique for the previous lesson, especially from lesson 3 onwards, since all those lessons really focus on the same fundamental, tackled from different angles.
Next steps should be: go and draw some plants in lesson 3, and read one piece :]
Thank you for the advices INFERNODNB!
I have taken a look at the video you recomended and it was really helpfull, i will try this method some more. I will try to stop "fixing" my mistakes too, as you said i often try to patch things up even knowing that i shouldn't, i will keep an eye on it and try to identify when i'm doing this kind of stuff.
Thank you for your time!
While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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