Here`s my work from yesterday. Decided to take a break today, I need to learn proper hand and wrist exercises. All those hours of guitar hero are starting to catch up to me 
For cylinders I decided to to focus more on ellipses and not relying on ctrl+z, so essentially they're going to look like sh*t for the time being.
@BemezmorizeD Nice Scene, you said you'd like to make it lived in. For that I would draw the objects in different angles. Like that it doesn't look so "perfect" clean. Barely anything in real life is parallel to each other ( even walls). Try to play with line weight too and don't fear to interrupt lines. I mean in the water for example it would fit perfectly. Water refracts ( not sure if it's the right word) light and the bottom of the pool wouldn't have such a clean edge. Here I'd make it thinner and maybe also just draw it halfways. I don't know if it's by purpose, but the vase, it has the lines of the box going through it.
You can also draw knick-knacks and clutter lying around, some small objects that give personality to the character that lives there.
Great work. I like your room drawing too. I'm busy trying to get everything else done too. I would suggest though that maybe add one picture in the back wall to the left to where one or both of the left poles are blocking the view of it. That would have people guessing what the image is that is being obscured and have it stand out more. And maybe one on the right wall in a similar fashion. Because looking at the fireplace, on the edge, it looks like there's more than the camera is capturing. Something I remember from years ago this teacher told me lol.
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Hey good work, you certainly seem to be putting in the effort. I am kind of interested in your formal art school education, what did you think and how it compares to what Marc has put out thus far?
As for feedback I suggest practicing fluid line work, try to get the same result with less lines, less scratchy. Gesture drawing really is the king of all exercises when it comes to this imo.
Something that also helped me especially with longer poses is Russian academic drawings. These style of drawings often begin with blocking out the figure with only straight lines, finding the angles with as few lines as possible.
If in the long term you want to have a sketchy style which I definitely also like I believe it still pays off to have the understanding and control that comes from clean lines first. Hope this helps.
I'm initiating a momentary truce with this perspective assignment. I'm at the point where I need to add smaller details, but honestly I don't want to 
I'll come back to it later, but right now I need to rebuild my momentum and get back into a drawing routine. I recently finished a challenge and I let myself get off track. So here's my 1-point room, recent gestures and the final results of my entry.
Thanks for the comment!
I had my first art class in school when I was 12, then took another when I was 16, and did a studio course the year after that. In these classes I learned about still-lifes, elements of design and how to use pencil, paint, etc. In college I majored in studio art at a public California university with an "emphasis" in oil painting. I put quotes because the art program at my school wasn't that great. They emphasized experimentation and abstract art, so I never really got to sharpen my skills. They were into Contemporary and Performance art and didn't have anything for digital art. Most of the teachers were convinced that there was no need to know anatomy or lighting. I did have a drawing teacher who taught anatomy and perspective, but they were more like sampler classes because they were offered once a year and weren't that demanding. I didn't start using references until my last year of university, and that was because a student said something during a critique instead of a professor : /
So as far as formal training, I learned how to explore my imagination but my skills were subpar and never really fine tuned.
I never took a class for digital art, but I had friends who did in high school and they introduced me to it. I got my first tablet when I was 15/16 and just did my own thing until recently. I love the content from this course and I'm definitely learning more than I've had since I took those first couple of art classes when I was a younger. At the same time I only think I'm able to get so much out of it because of my previous experience. There's things that I'm only able to tackle or understand because of what I learned from school or others online like Istebrak or Irshad Karim and his drawabox website. And those years in university taught me how not to study art 
In a nutshell though I think this is a fantastic course and one of the best investments I've made. I'm glad I got it during a promotion though, but still 
I really like the sound of that Russian academic approach. I tried to use straight lines and angles here and there, but if there's a whole technique out there I'm interested in learning! I don't like the scratchy look, I can only get rid of it if I draw over the initial drawing. I don't think there's anything wrong with using that sketchy look when brainstorming, but I want to learn how to be more economical with my lines.
Thanks again!
@patmast I'm super late but thanks for the feedback! This is all still during the sketch phase so I haven't thought about line weight or erasing lines through objects, definitely wouldn't leave that there for a finished work lol. Thanks for your suggestions!
@ristarsonata Thanks for the picture idea! I planned on doing a mural in the back to mimic ancient Roman houses, but I think I'll add another image to the right.
@biotic Thanks for the feedback!
ah cool, thanks for sharing your experience 
It sounds like you gained maturity and a better mindset for learning throughout your education. Same thing happened to me, but i studied industrial design and managed to get by not really drawing (they never pushed it or taught us..)
Just practicing straight lines, curves and ellipses (in one sweep) like on Marcs first assignment will get you pretty far. This kind of stuff is the same in Scott Robertsons How to draw, Peter Han's Dynamic sketching and many other dynamic sketch course like draw a box that you mentioned. Economy of line is also economy of thought.
I also agree that preliminary 'rough' drawings are great for brainstorming and working out designs.
keep up the hard work
Dude the amount pf work you are producing is outstanding! Have to catch up with ya'll
I like your interiors, but just a quick tip (if you don't know it already). Try playing more with the line weight. I mean, use thicker lines in the foreground and the further it gets to the background, use thinner lines and less detail. That would make it look a lot more dynamic. Keep up the great work!
The room looks fantastic. Full and feels like there's more to the story. And your archer is fantastic, especially the bow and right arm design too.
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