3:10 PM, Friday October 15th 2021
Awesome job! Enjoy the 250 Boxes!
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250 Box Challenge
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HelixTypeX
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5:27 PM, Wednesday October 6th 2021
Great submission Haise, I can definitely seethe effort you put into your homework.
All your pages look very clean and sharp especially on the Ghosted lines exercise, this is one that I struggle with a good bit.
I honestly can't find a whole lot to critique on unless I start nitpicking things which I feel is a little unnecessary at this point in the program.
The one exercise that caught my attention was the "Organic Boxes" there are a few lines that look to have some scratchy marks, I'm not sure if these were "ghosting" marks accidentally made before your committed stroke, or unintentional marks that were corrected. Honestly I sometimes accidentally make little marks when I am ghosting on accident, which I feel is okay this early in the course. Just be aware of them going forward.
Again great job on Lesson 1!
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge ! Whoo! (:
3:22 AM, Wednesday October 6th 2021
For sure! Thanks Stormfly!
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4:54 PM, Tuesday October 5th 2021
Wow! You did a great job at the homework.
Your rotated box exercise are life goals for me, your ghosted lines are awesome as well.
Very good work your ready for the 250 box challenge for sure.
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250 Box Challenge, good Luck!
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4:36 PM, Tuesday October 5th 2021
Great job on your homework!
I can see you put a lot of effort into your submission. I do want to point out one area for improvement, thats going to be your ghosted lines exercise.
You did very well at controlling your stroke to stop and end at the dots, unfortunately this came at the expense of your line confidence. Remember early Lesson one is all about these basic principles of how we make our marks on the paper. Mark our spots, Ghost our motion, Confidently make our mark.
You have a bit wobbling in the ghosted lines. Nobody expects perfection, and this is one of the few assignments in Lesson 1 with "levels" of success.
Level 1: Line is smooth and consistent without any visible wobbling, but doesn't quite pass through A or B
Level 2: Line is straight, smooth and consistent without any wobbling and maintains the correct trajectory. It does however either fall short or overshoot one or both points.
Level 3: Line is straight, smooth, consistent without any wobbling. It also starts right at one point and ends exactly at the other.
Don't fixate about hitting point B perfectly yet, but getting through your motion in a confident shot.
For me I had to make two adjustments to increase my line's confidence and reduce wobbling.
1- I had to make my lines a bit longer since I am not naturally used to drawing from the shoulder. With the longer lines it forced my arm to use the shoulder with a smoother motion than a smaller more precise lines.
2- Finding the right natural angle my shoulder comfortably moves in. Rotate that paper to meet your comfort level.
Next Steps:
Lets get another page of ghosted lines, don't worry about completely missing that B mark its okay if you do. Just a smooth consistent pass.
one page of ghosted lines
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4:02 PM, Tuesday October 5th 2021
Hey great job on your homework!
I see you put a lot of effort into this submission, great job on your line confidence this is something that is very challenging for some (especially myself).
I see two areas for improvement.
1st- Your Ellipse tables.
The first page it seems on the top portion of you only drew through the ellipse once.
I would recommend give that ellipse a good ghosting, no shame in ghosting the ellipse 8-10 times to "feel it out" before committing to that stroke. Lastly that second draw through on your ellipse really helps, just comparing the first page to the second page the difference is vast.
2nd- Is your Organic Boxes.
Overall great work here you have a good sense of space going from big to small feel very proud I personally struggled with this a LOT. This is one of the exercises that is meant to be extremely difficult so pat yourself on the back!
Some of the smaller boxes are hard to read, this is something I am battling with myself. Some material I found to help me with understanding the shape in 3d form is the "Y Method". Its touched on here https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/organicperspective
I naturally did not construct my cubes this way so understanding it enough to create the cube I intended was extremely difficult. You will learn more about it when you start on the 250 Box challenge. I think it will help lots, here is some supplemental material I found to help me grasp it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok4TmdssU34
Uncomfortable has the second reply on this post, for some reason it just clicked when I read it.
Next Steps:
I would suggest doing one more page of the Ellipse Table and strive to get two full passes through all your Ellipses before moving on.
Start the 250 Box Challenge. Try to use the Y Method as much as possible, it helps so much to understand the form in space and to get the box in a believable perspective.
3:34 PM, Tuesday October 5th 2021
This was gold! So I spent a lot of time last night and this morning using the dot trick you mentioned. After ghosting a good bit, staring at my starting point and kind of blurring my vision before I committed to the stroke I think helped a good bit. I also made adjustments to my posture and table to ensure all my motion is coming from my shoulder. I got a pretty thick Sketchbook to set my copy paper on top of that way I can't rest my arm on the desk and I am having to hover my arm above the paper ( I learned very quick how weak my shoulder is)
I also did some experimenting with the angle I made my lines from, I found a diagonal motion from top left down to bottom right was easiest (I am lefty).
The ruler helped a good deal too!
I'm submitting my best two pages of ghosted lines, but I did draw 5 (front and back) in total the first three were "rough"
7:36 PM, Monday October 4th 2021
Thank You so much Stormfly!
I did a few pages of the Super Imposed Lines as Well as the ghosted lines.
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