Ebni

Giver of Life

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    2:23 PM, Thursday May 4th 2023

    Hi! I will be reviewing your work!

    First of all, I need to say this. Try not to redo exercises, and just have them get critiqued first. This helps give you more tips on how to approach it better instead of figuring it out on your lonesome, since you cant always be sure if you're doing it right either. In this case, I think it was fine because there is significant improvement. Just be careful of redoing too much since that might impact your motivation in the long run. If you just dont want to get redo's on your hw, you're always welcome to show your work you're not sure about in the discord. Members will be able to give you advice on how to proceed and if it needs redoing.

    Lines:

    Superimposed looks great! Good variety and good confidence.

    Ghosted lines, some of them are a bit curved. take care that it should always be straight. remember to tilt your paper to accommodate your hand.

    Ghosted planes: There is some overshooting and wobbly lines in the first page but the second one shows great improvement so these are good too.

    Ellipses:

    In Both the funnels and tables of ellipses, they are floating too much, meaning they arent touching the other ellipses or sides of the boxes you made. They have to look tightly squished together. However, I do like that they are confident lines and seeing your second page of tables does seem to indicate that theres improvement there too. The planes look good here too, as there improvement in the following page.

    What you can do to improve its accuracy, is to ghost them as you do the lines and planes. This builds up a kind of muscle memory, and when you do put it down, it will be almost automatic. You do get the concept but remember to keep doing these for practice/warmups. It will help your body to remember so your brain can focus on design instead haha.

    Boxes: These all look good. I do notice you struggled a bit with making the plotted perspective lines. This will improve in time tho, do remember to build on top of these exercises and do ghost these lines if they are proving to be difficult. Lock your writs too when drawing many of these, otherwise it will be bad for your health in the long run.

    For the rotated boxes I do have one thing to mention, you added an extra box on the very ends of each row haha. Think of them as rows, and you'lll see in the example that each has a set amount on each row, in your case its seven vs five. The amounts of boxes in each is inconsistent which I think caused you some confusion in turning them? If I remove those extra boxes, it looks like you didnt really turn all that much but rather moved them into the distance.

    What helped me a bit was imagining a vp for the center box. and when I am drawing the box left to it, I move that center vp along the right side so I readjust its alignment more naturally. This gets harder to do in the corners but it will come with practice. Regardless I think you did a good job overall so I'll mark this as complete.

    Next Steps:

    Remember that these homework assignment are meant to be built on top of other future assignments. Make your boxes with the ghosted lines, ghoted planes in mind. You will be doing a lot of them so be kind to your wrist and use your shoulder. Best of luck on the 250 boxes!

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    12:10 PM, Thursday May 4th 2023

    Hello! I will be reviewing your work!

    For your lines, I notice that in the superimposed homework you have some difficulty in making the longer lines. I do suggest you do practice those with your shoulder more. For anything that is across the page, using your shoulder should give you much more stability in making clean and straight lines.

    Also make sure to turn your page to accommodate the natural angle of your body. Besides that, your lines look nice and confident, just remember to favour you shoulder to draw over your wrist. It will also be much healthier for you in the long run. I like that you have a good variety too and your planes look great as well!

    Ellipses are also confident! You do have to have them touch. A lot of them in the planes do not touch all the sides of the plane and the tables of ellipses are not touching each other. I think its fine to continue tho as your funnels did improve on that. Just keep that in mind.

    What helped me was to ghost the ellipses before putting them down. Like how you did that with ghosted lines and ghosted planes. You can also do that with all other shapes. Think of your homework as building on top of each other. That means that what you learned in the first line homework is something you apply in the rest of your homework.

    They are not separate from each other. If you ghost them you'll be able to make your body remember the motion you made, and it will be more accurate as a result!

    Your accuracy will naturally increase as you use these as practice in the future! I highly suggest these for warmup as it helps loosen you up before drawing.

    Boxes, This seems kind of incomplete. The plotted perspective only has two boxes? You have to at least have five for each. However I do notice that this take 2? I dont have access to your first take tho, so I dont know for sure. Same for the rough perspective exercise. If this was unintentional, refer to the completed homework examples they provide you in the drawabox website and follow that amount.

    The organic perspective looks really nice, good job on those!

    The rotated boxes are a bit hard to pin down. The picture is so small haha. I managed to zoom in and you are missing the very corner on the farthest edges. If you see them as rows, you are missing two each on the very top and the very bottom. I'm afraid you will have to do them. Just this one tho, the rest of it looks alright. Its jsut really important that you do these corners. You can simply add these into your existing rotated boxes that you already did.

    Next Steps:

    If you redid Lesson one, just show me your rough and plotted perspective from your first take instead of doing them again. And add the corner boxes in the rotated boxes exercise. You're almost there, keep it up!

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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