Hi friends!

I have over eighty published posts on the subject of "Drawing like a pro". Since the beginning of the homework contest, I have said that I will not judge your submitted drawing on aesthetic terms such as "beautiful", "not beautiful", "like" or "dislike" because that is not the goal. Nor do I intend to win friends by flattering anything that may be submitted.
The objective is that you learn the technical aspects of drawing, whether or not you use them later is only up to you, as an artist you have the freedom to do so or not, but having the right knowledge will allow you to have a better appreciation of your own work and that of others.
In this sense, do not be afraid to show me your work because I will do my best to give you a judgment based on helping you develop a professional achievement in your work.

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Let's see this exercise done by @stef1, who is a very appreciated friend and who I think has a real interest in knowing and learning some aspects of the craft of drawing and who otherwise already has a great aesthetic sense and a great love for painting and drawing, which can be seen in her magnificent works.
Therefore, I am obliged to be very honest when giving my opinion on the development of her exercises based on the explanations I have previously provided.

A very good practice is to try to make the freehand drawing first, then fix the eventual mistakes, so in this way, the freehand drawing will be much better in the future if we are aware of the errors committed in previous works when drawing.
I congratulate you @stef1 for exercising this practice, I also practice it always.

Well, I will try to help @stef1 to see what are her mistakes when drawing.

The direction of the sides goes in an inverted sense to the perspective and this is a recurring error in her drawings.
Try to be aware of this problem when doing your freehand drawings so you can overcome it.

I have noticed it since the first exercises but at that time there was no point in criticizing this because we hadn't seen any aspect of perspective yet.

When you draw freehand you should never forget what you have studied about perspective.
The exercises aim to get these aspects of drawing done unconsciously, so you don't have to think about them when you draw. This will give you the chance to focus your efforts on other aspects of the drawing.
This can only be achieved with practice, for each exercise that I propose you must multiply it by ten or by a hundred.
Have you thought about how much those artists who seem gifted have exercised? Thousands of times, whether painters, cartoonists, musicians, dancers, gymnasts, etc.
The only difference between someone who draws perfectly at forty or more and someone who learns to draw at forty is... time. People who draw perfectly at forty undoubtedly started at five and have never stopped practising.
The mediocre ones, among which I certainly include myself, either start too late or we don't dedicate all the necessary time to it.

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Well, continuing assessing the @stef1's drawing, the perspective of the faces is right thanks to the adequate use of the vanishing lines by Stef but the two horizontal lines under the cube and the respective diagonals on its faces call my attention because they are drawn after the drawing of the cube is finished.
The explanation I can find for this is that @stef1 has forgotten the purpose of these lines or perhaps she didn't read the lesson where I showed how to draw a cube (instead of a cuboid) in perspective, because it doesn't make any sense to draw these helplines after finished the drawing.

See the post The Cube, where I show the steps to use the method of diagonals to find the depth of a cube in perspective.

This is the result of applying this method.

Finally, the inkwell cap is very well made, according to the perspective method.
But I see again the wrong use of perspective when freehand drawing the label for the inkwell. The perspective rules must be always present, in each detail of the drawing, in case of doubt you can always draw the necessary helplines towards the vanishing point previously defined.
I also wonder why you didn't use the rules of shadows to draw them even if it's just to try to put what you studied into practice instead of drawing shadows that are not in accordance with reality.

We must always remember that perspective rules are a tool to help us obtain a drawing according to reality. If we draw something from memory, the perspective rules are very useful, but if they are not enough, we can always resort to observation. Observing a bottle or a glass with a dark drink, for example, could be useful in this case, or looking for a photo that can guide us as well.

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I wish you a very nice day and good exercise!

And if you like to colour your drawings, I recommend the interesting and useful Color and Light classes of @fumansiu whose concepts you can apply both with traditional and digital techniques.
https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@fumansiu/color-and-light-orange-round-3
is his newest lesson.
Very interesting indeed!

Or maybe you want to make a beautiful watercolour with your drawing!
Well, our friend @arcoiris is back with his magnificent watercolour lessons.
Check out this last post that contains very interesting and useful advice about watercolours in different qualities and formats from different brands.

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Many thanks to @bambuka and @stef1 once again for their encouragement and support.
Also, thanks to @xpilar for making these initiatives possible with their great support.

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