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Hey Pikasfy! Let's get started:

Lines:

• They're looking good: your lines are confident and close to being accurate on some of your superimposed exercises. Even when you don't hit the end point, you don't repeat the line, which is good. I would suggest incorporating more curved and arched ghosted lines when doing your warm-ups in the future.

• For the ghosted planes, I will note that a couple of your planes on your first page were missing some of their inner vertical lines.

Ellipses:

• In your ghosted planes with ellipses, I noticed specifically with the second page that quite a few of your ellipses were drawn through more than the suggested 2 to 3 times. Do not do this! Not just because it is messy, but also because mistakes are a part of the learning process, and doing it only 2 or 3 times will help build accuracy and muscle memory over time.

• Reinforcing the previous point here as well with the tables of ellipses exercise; the first section in the top left corner on your first page of ellipses only had the ellipses drawn through once. Again, make sure you are drawing through your ellipses with confidence. Accuracy will come with time and practice.

• Your tables of ellipses are fairly well done, as well as your funnels. For future reference, make sure you are staying within the bounds that are being created (the "walls" for the tables of ellipses, the "funnel" for the funnels), although this is only especially prevalent in the funnels specifically.

Boxes:

• Overall, this section is well done; a few notes below:

  • In rough perspective, make sure your horizontal lines are parallel to the horizon line and the vertical lines are perpendicular to it. Good job making sure to extend your correction lines, as it will help you point out your mistakes.

  • For your rotated boxes, you did well to keep the corners close; however, the boxes in the top right corner are not rotating like the rest of the corners are.

  • Your organic perspective was done well. Your linework when going over the boxes is a little off, and some boxes have lines that extend further than the box itself, but not anything that won't go away with practice.

• Do not worry too much about the mistakes in this section, as you will get better at them when going through the 250 box challenge.

Good job getting through the first lesson!

Thanks for your input!

I had noticed when I was last doing my boxes that I was making more mistakes then I find myself doing normally, and I was starting to question whether or not I was actually taking the time to understand what I was doing right and wrong; I felt myself rushing a bit to try and get to 50 boxes (which is why I stopped at 45). I'll try listening to music and see if that helps, as well as find out how long it takes for me to do one page of boxes (which tends to be 5 per page for me). Hopefully then I'll feel less likely to try and speed through it, and I'll focus more on what I'm doing.

Thanks for the detailed response!

I was definitely stressing a bit over it, since I have so many other things going on, I didn't have much time to actually learn and in a way I felt like I was falling behind (whatever that means). I'll make sure to try out the timed sections the next time I go back to the challenge, as well as make sure I draw just for fun more often, as I've been on sort of a hiatus for a few years as a result of focusing on other things in my life.

Hey JupiterPulse! Let's get started:

• So Lines; as far as this part goes, you did good. Your lines are mostly straight, and even though you did have trouble, you seem to have a pretty good grasp of it. You already pointed this out yourself, but you have a few instances in your exercises in general where you draw a line at the wrong angle, or was drawing over it again. An easy fix to this would be ghosting over where you want the line to go before actually placing pen to paper (remember, confidence is key!). Other than that, this section was done well!

• Next, Ellipses; no noticeable problems here; if I was really being nit-picky then I would say that the ellipses are a little wobbly in general, but you and I both know that with practice it will get better.

• Finally, Boxes; your lines in the Rough Perspective exercise are more wobbly than the rest of them, so they aren't as aligned with the horizon as they should be, but that's something to work on as more of a warm up. Also, some of your boxes tend to lean towards your vanishing point as well, so that's something to keep in mind, too. Your organic has its perspective problems as well, of course, but it's nothing that can't be improved upon with time and practice.

Overall, you did some good work! Hope I helped!

(P.S. I didn't write as much as I usually do; you're pretty good at pointing out your mistakes. Are you self-taught as well? Either way, I think it's good that you can see those things, and a little critique from time to time doesn't hurt either! Keep on improving!)

Hey, WendyH0use!

1) Lines; in the Super Imposed exercise, they are done beautifully - they are straight and drawn confidently. The same thing is seen for the most part in the other two lines exercises, as well. One thing that I will mention is that some of your lines in the Ghosting exercise arch slightly, to which there is an easy fix to: when drawing the line, consciously arch your line in the opposite direction, and with practice it will straighten (this is mostly with your longer lines though). Also, some of your lines tend to overshoot point B, which can be fix by lifting your pen up off of the paper as soon as you reach point B.

2) Ellipses; you did pretty well on this part! Needless to say, there is thing that I want to say related to the funnels exercise. In that exercise, I noticed you tried doing the corner version of the exercise that was shown in the example homework. I would say it was fine, but what bothered me about it is that while there was a line defining the middle point for each row of ellipses, along with a line between them to seperate the sides, there was no line defining the outside of those boundaries. It looked like you were trying to use the sides of the paper to do that, but it would've been helpful to draw the lines anyway, so that you could get a good idea of what you were doing right and where you were going wrong. I say all this because while the rest of your funnels are done well, the corner ones seem wobbly and misguided, despite the line in the middle being used as a guiding force.

3) Boxes; for your Plotted Perspective exercise, I'm a little confused as to why your lines weren't extended all the way back to their intended vanishing points. It is an important part of the exercise, but I thought I should mention that anyway. Moving on to Rough Perspective, everything is done fine here with the exception of some lines being wobbly, but for the most part the lines are parallel and perpendicular to the horizon. The Rotating Boxes was a bit off, as the boxes didn't feel like they were rotating, rather they were just slightly shifted in a different direction. The Organic Perspective exercise was done well, the only thing I'll say is that the line weight of the main swooping line is pretty consistent, which makes it a little difficult to tell which boxes are in front and which are behind without actually having to look at them.

Good work overall! Hope I helped some!

Heya, Sanchita! Let's get straight to it:

First, Lines. Your lines on the Super Imposed Lines exercise are done well, and the same can be said about your lines on the Ghosted lines and Ghosted Planes exercise. However, in the latter exercises, I noticed that some of your lines didn't reach their point successfully, or just overshot it, despite the line being drawn straight and confidently. An easy fix to this would be when you're drawing your line, try lifting your pen off of the page as soon as you reach that second dot.

For the Ellipses, in the Ellipses in Planes Exercise, I saw that almost all of your ellipses were drawn through more than three times; the ideal number of times to draw through your ellipses would be two or three (remember, practice makes progress! We're not trying to get it perfect the first time around; the more you draw them, the better they'll get over time!). In the Table of Ellipses exercise and the Funnels exercise, I don't see this problem occur again, but something that should be mentioned is the use of space, especailly in the Table of Ellipses. In that exercise, everything should sit comfortably within the boundaries of the table you drew beforehand, rather than going outside of them, or in your case not making use of the entire space. Otherwise, everything else is fine.

Finally, Boxes: In your Rough Perspective exercise, the lines on your boxes should parallel and perpendicular to their horizon, and while most of your boxes do that just fine for the most part, some of those lines - especially those going back towards you vanishing point - tend to slant in some odd way, making the form of the boxes look off to the average veiwer. For the Rotated Boxes, it looks like you had some trouble, as some boxes just don't line up with the others, or just weren't drawn on the page. Of course, this exercise is one of the harder ones, so you're not expected to do it perfectly - you're not even expected to do it well, but the point is to be able to guage how these boxes rotate in a 3D setting and their relation to each other.

ALRIGHT! cracks knuckles ON TO THE FINAL EXERCISE!

Your Organic Perspective has a lot to unpack, so I made a completely seperate paragraph for it; anyhow, I noticed right off the bat that you made quite a few mistakes with your first few lines, specifically your lines that determine where your boxes will be rotating in space (the white-out kinda gives it away). Your first page is pretty rough compared to your second, where it looks like you were starting to get the hang of it, so everything I'm metioning right now will be entirely focused on the first one. First off, some of your lines for your boxes are drawn over multiple times, and I cannot stress this enough, Do Not try and fix your lines this way! If you want to get your lines straight the first time around, try using the ghosting method, and if it doesn't turn out exactly the way you envision it, that's okay! Just take a step back for a moment, figure out where you went wrong, and try again; your mistakes are there to help you learn, embrace them!

(On another note, I also saw that the way you drew your boxes was either in a rightside-up "y" or downward facing "y", which isn't as much of a problem as it is an observation.)

Hope this helped!

Heya! Gald to know my advice helped(I'm pretty new to critique in general)!

It's definitely easier for me to see this time around, and looking at it, it looks like you understand the point of the exercise, which is seeing how boxes rotate in space and how they relate to each other. Well done!

Very well done!

Like you just said, the boxes are much more consistent then when you did it the frist time around, and it is clear that they are rotating in space, too.

Hello, Christ!

Your work overall for lesson one is superb: Your line work is clear and confident, like it should be in all of the exercises. Something I feel should be mentioned though is the Rotated Boxes exercise. In that exercise, you seem to understand that the boxes need to be rotating, which is shown in some parts of your exercise. However, a lot of the boxes don't rotate that much in comparison to some of the others. One of the goals of the exercise is to infer how boxes rotate in space and how they relate to the others around them. Other than that, you did pretty well!

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback! As for the Rough Perspective exercise, I most likely did draw slowly, since I'm still trying to get used to drawing from my shoulder rather than my wrist or elbow, as well as being more confident with my line work. While I'm writing this I am currently on the 250 Boxes Challenge, and even though I'm only a tenth of the way through, I can already see some improvements!

Thanks again for giving feedback!