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Bad habits are hard to brake. I rotate my paper. I found an angle that allows me to draw a fairly long straight line. so I stick with it. I tried not moving my paper and it did not go well. the amount of wavy and crooked lines that came out of my hand was discouraging. had to stop for today.
I will give it another go tomorrow. Will post those attempts. the good, the bad and the ugly...
Earlier today was still playing with another illusion. not an original. I found it through Pinterest. don't know who did this one originally. I somewhat figured the measurements that fit the page and ran with it. (took me about 5 tries to get it right). My T-square skills are very rusty and I kept letting it get off the side, making my lines crooked. so nothing would match up and I would have to start all over. but in the end. got it to work.
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Developing Hand Skills
If you want to develop your hand skills to meet your brain skills, here's a challenge (do this without rotating your sketchbook):
Drawing Circles and Bisecting Lines
- Draw a circle with a compass.
- Bisect it through the center with a horizontal line, then a vertical line.
Know this, it's not easy. If you do it badly a few hundred times but tolerate that because you want to rely less on tools, or even for personal reasons like proving your pluck, you'll gradually gain control of your lines and move beyond theory to practice.
- Now, try bisecting a quadrant by drawing a 45-degree angle. Pull it all the way through and then do the same for its neighboring quadrant.
- Estimate thirds all around and continue pulling lines all the way through.
Practice Makes Perfect
I warn you: if you are new to this, you will suck at it, like I do at jokes. But if you keep trying, not settling for theory that tingles your brain but leaves your lines limp, and practice this five to ten minutes a day through this course hundreds of times, even on templates (like the one in the downloads tab), your hand skills can rise to your brain skills.
Deadline - submit by Dec 04, 2024 for a chance to be in the critique video!
I changed the angle names to measure in the direction used in trigonometry. Then I filled out all the coordinates of the unit circle, for fun. This was nice to construct using the triangle measurements. (No Euclidean constructions required.) There should be a drawing class requirement for math teachers! It would have made my whiteboard work nicer.
Working without triangles my lines are less confident but pretty close. I need to incorporate this into my warmup rotation so that I can work accurately with confidence.
I guess all those years of trying to draw special right triangles on the whiteboard were helpful.
Did some practice and found that my estimating for the 30 degree line is consistently too acute. I used a protractor to measure each angle after free handing and wrote the numbers so that I could see where I was going off. I'm happy to be back working on this course now that I've caught up with drawing basics.
This was definitely a nice and simple way to systematically test and drill my line control going in different directions; for the most part, I went over my lines in each direction 10+ times for the sake of building muscle memory, although there were a couple times that I managed to get what I consider a pretty quality line on the first try, which I left alone. I've also included a page of exercises from Peter Han, which I really enjoyed doing, especially to work on maintaining confident lines while also trying to keep consistent spacing between my lines.
I have done quite a bit with geometry but expected to be totally off. 1st one was on some but the second was closer.
Definitely not my strong suit, but I'm keeping at it. Here's just a few pages of the many many I've been making.
This was strangely relaxing to do after I figured out how to get the compass to work. Think I'll add this alongside the line work as a daily warmup for a while. Before eventually adding it to a warm up roulette
I tried to do these without rotating the paper. I struggled with horizontal lines, while vertical lines were somehow easier.
These are my warmups from the last few days of doing these as well as the recommended exercises from Peter Han. The first one I did today while the rest were on other days.
Hello, I'm catching up on the assignments. I'm going to keep doing to develop the muscle memory and make confident and effective lines 😊
Peter Han's exercises certainly helped with this one. I still find that certain angles like 60, 75, and 120 degrees are pretty uncomfortable on a display tablet, but they were a lot easier after trying Peter's practice techniques.
I used a compass (for the first time) to draw the circles and then used a rapidograph for the 45° and 90° lines. I also went over them a few times.
For some of the lines I started from the upper half and drew down to the lower half, and for others I reversed it.
After drawing the 45° lines I proceeded to divide the quarters into thirds, which, because the lines were done freehand, are not accurate thirds. But I still found it difficult to divide it into thirds. It’s something I hope to get better at; eyeballing measurements.
I don’t know if I should’ve focused on just drawing straight lines from point to point or focused on accurately depicting 15° increments regardless if the lines were a bit wobbly. I think I found myself focused more on the former.
I had to do this digitally due to travelling so the temptation to zoom in or out was tricky to resist but I did!
