Chapter Four: Planes and Circles
ASSIGNMENT FOUR
Correcting Yourself
The first part of this assignment consists of you merely putting your work away and keeping it out of sight for a few days. This temporary break is crucial in re-calibrating your brain because (as discussed in chapter two, lesson seven about Feedback), there is an odd phenomenon that causes our brains to dismiss potential problems and simply accept the current state of things, even if they are incorrect.
This time apart allows your brain to complete a full system reset, which helps you to catch the mistakes you would not have otherwise seen. Unfortunately, there is no way for us to avoid this except to walk away, and allowing for a fresh perspective later on. It is this same phenomenon that prevents you from noticing obvious mistakes until after you’ve shared your work, which only highlights the importance of taking a step back from time to time.
Once the appropriate time has elapsed, you can pull out your assignments and assess your previous work. Go over the exercises with a different color pen or pencil and do your best to fix any of the major issues that jump out at you. Learning how you can both one, spot problem areas and two, correct them in your own work gives you a huge advantage as an artist. So practicing these skills, especially early on, is essential to speedy growth.
Assignment Four: Correcting Yourself and Peers
Link to the Discord Feedback-room Thread
To complete this assignment
Part One:
Post your first three assignments in the appropriate thread in the Discord assignments and feedback-room: Correcting Yourself and Peers - Constructive Drawing: Chapter Three, Assignment Four.
Put away these assignments to trigger your system reset.
After a few days, take out your finished assignments. Spend some time correcting them to the best of your ability with a different colored pen or pencil.
Post your corrections in your sketchbook in the Discord community.
Part Two:
Go to the correct post in the feedback-room, and pick out three assignments from other students. Correct those assignments and post the corrections in your sketchbook.