Notes from the lessons and suggested exercises. This information is helping me draw through the Loomis books and other classes as well.

Fundamentals and form intersections assignment.

Fun stuff!!!! I had a lot of fun time doing this and just shutting my brain off to do the basic volume practice!

I think chaining forms together will definitely become a good sketchbook exercise for me :)

Fun exercise!

Hello, I tried some form intersections. Boxes are easy enough, but anything rounded and my brain gets overloaded. I think the biggest challenge is that it's hard to check whether it's correct or not, as there are not many resources out there to compare with...

Unfortunately, all I could manage to do today were a couple pages of warm-ups and one more page of overlapping shapes. I had a go at sculpting/modifying/cutting from a square, but my brain just couldn't figure out how. I'll keep trying and see if I can post tomorrow as well

Rough go at the form intersections, gonna work harder on the line quality and the perspective on some of the lines.

That was quite a fun and tough exercise. Im going to practice form intersections regularly, good sketch book exercise

These are very messy, but I understand the underlying concepts. My question is however is separate. I don't wish to underplay the importance of these exercises or fundamentals, but I find myself wanting to move on to form construction, gesture and anatomy since I've done those to a good degree. What would be your advice? I know these are never really mastered but I also don't want to neglect them but I've found myself wanting to move to your lessons on form construction and more in-depth gesture lectures since I've watched some of your content on YouTube and have a few gesture drawings that I drew alongside your videos. If need be I can share some of those gesture drawings for you to gauge where I am and better advise me. Besides that, I love your method of teaching and looking forward to the rest of this course.

I am a very chaotic artist and i often do these practices when I have an artblock, but it is more important for me to draw consistently even if they are very rough! But I do enjoy the draftmanship exercises to help me warm up, and combining shapes have been very helpful before i start practicing gesture. I do know I need to slow down a lot of my practices, but it is a mental state thing.

Much harder when I am not just copying your decisions. I am not sure I fully get exploding yet. I get you are kind of taking a piece off, but most of the time it feels like I am just subtracting and drawing the shape twice. I think I didn't consider the outside plane a few times. There are probably better combinations of shapes that demonstrate the effect more.

i really liked these warmup exercises, but found myself switching between them instead keeping things separate. Sorry for being disorganised like this haha

Actually enjoyed this assignment! It was a nice way to think about and grapple with perspective intuitively... Gonna continue studying form intersections as we go. Work cited: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1130755419021762558/

This is not my drawing, but I got this from this vid: Basic shapes intersection drawing time lapse video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xaPG9YRGcE I find this useful for more practice.

I'm starting to try and intersect forms and so far its going somewhat well. I want to try more cylinder related form intersections since they're the most used for arms and legs. Will continue with more studies.

Thank you for breaking it down to basics. I'm going to practice more.