Lots of practice drawing circles and spheres today. Definitely something it will be helpful for me to practice a bunch more I think. Specific things for me to pay attention to I think:

  1. Making sure that I get good alignment between the circle and the interior ellipses–need to pay closer attention when ghosting or start lighter and adjust, make sure things are lining up well.
  2. Practice darkening one side of the ellipse while retaining the full ellipse stroke motion. There’s a temptation to shift to making more of a curved line, which leads to less curvature at the edges usually.
  3. Practice all different angles of making ovals.

Circle and sphere practice

I think maybe I will make sphere-drawing a warm up exercise going forward for a while, so I get the chance to practice it more.

Separately, I did a sketch of the Sheraton Commander in Cambridge from a photo reference I took. This was again mainly focused on getting the big shapes of value roughly correct. I started with a light pencil sketch, then added the marker, then the black pen last. I think it’s a nice process for me, because it gives a chance to get the layout more correct, and encourages me to use line more thoughtfully, since value is roughly handled already.

rough value sketch of sheraton commander in cambridge