Locking it, not talking it.

Lefty here. It seems like a silly question, but when following tutorials and imitating our right-handed masters, I tend to go against the flow, left to right, just like I'm hand-writing. Should I stick to building line confidence from right to left instead as I try to reprogram my brain from those (many, many) years of pen handling?

I also spent much time learning the tools. One of my main grudges is how sliding the ruler and triangles around mess-up the graphite and leaves stains difficult to erase. Any-hoo ... A couple of pieces: I always have issues centering as I start too much in the center and end-up way too close to the border. The last image shows a bit of my process and how I once vowed to never let used paper to waste - A free real-estate calendar page and I got like 5000 photocopies of a promotional flyer from someone's failed business. Being using them since the '90s 😂

Played with a few of the illusions already shared by other students. Appreciate all the material people are finding and posting. Playing with isometric perspective was new for me. It's pretty fun. Nice to be gaining tools to understand illusions.

I've tried with a charcoal stick and newsprint, and, well, it's tough. Dark comes naturally as there seems to be a hard limit on the amount of charcoal, anything lighter you need to nail the first time around and I had trouble by the third square to do even lighter.

I am very excited for this course. I've had one formal real-life drawing class some 20 years ago, it had a "draw what you see" approach that focused on putting more and more information on paper without guidelines - and that kind of killed my love for the art. My big goal is trying to taking the love back : I like Franco-Belgian artists (here are examples by Schuiten and Moebius, sorry for the poor quality of pictures) that are usually heavy on perspective.