PunPun257

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    4:45 AM, Sunday May 31st 2020

    Congrats on finishing Lesson 1, however you seem to missing quite a few exercises. While you may be working on a bigger space these lessons ask for pages. Your pages may be larger but several exercises look like they wouldn't fill up a regular sized page.

    I'll critique what I can but you'll need those missing pages in order to complete this lesson.

    Superimposed Lines: Consistent work but lacking in quanity. More lines of different length will give you the muscle memory you need for future work

    Ghosted LInes: Nice work, some wobbling and few missed lines but overall good stuff.

    Ghosted Planes: Striaght lines mostly, but a quite a few seem to be too short or too far from their mark. Not much to ananlyze with only one page however.

    Table of Ellipses: Good job keeping your ellipses together, but a few seem to be messier than others. Remember to draw through your ellipses two to three times. It's not really a suggestion but more of a demand of all your ellipses.

    Ellipses in Planes: Decent work; Try to fill the sides of the plane and remember to draw through your ellipses.

    Funnels: Good job drawing through your ellipses. Not too much wobbling on the minor axis so nice work.

    Plotted Perspective: Missing this exercise.

    Rough perspective: Solid work keeping your vertical and horizontal lines straight. Otherwise some issues lining up the lines with the VP but I think you understood the objective.

    Rotated Boxes: Very clean attempt. Somewhat smaller which hinders your ability to picture the boxes in 3D but you have good rotation.

    Organic Perspective: This is a hard one. You did a nice job giving depth to the second frame. The biggest issue I see is that the planes of your boxes don't line up well. Remember the Y shape you start with gives you all the lines that the rest will line up with.

    Next Steps:

    I recommend you do another page of ghosted planes with ghosted ellipses. Draw through your ellipses and try to touch all the sides of the plane.

    Please add a page of the Plotted perspective, alongside one of Organic Perspective. These exercises will help you better understand VPs in a 3D space which will help once you move onto the 250 Box Challenge.

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
    2 users agree
    7:32 AM, Friday May 29th 2020

    Congrats on finishing Lesson 1.

    Your line exercises seem to be focused. Not too much wobbling and your lines seem confident. Great work on those.

    Table of ellipses looks solid, some good variety of ellipses.

    For the ellipses in planes there seem to be some floating and others that go beyond the plane so be sure to avoid mistakes like that.

    The funnels you made look very good, no straying from the minor axis. I'd try this one again and try to change the degree of the ellipse as you move through the funnel since while your funnels look very good they don't show a lot of variety.

    Plotted perspective: Pretty straightforward, you did well but your second and third frames look pretty similar which works against you since this exercise is trying to introduce VP and the way boxes line up with them. Variety will help you see the different angles of the 3D form and how they relate to each other.

    Rough perspective: This is tough one and it seems like you had some issues. Many boxes appear to go to their own VP and there are lines that seem like they were drawn twice. Please try to avoid correcting these lines even if they appear wobbly or off mark. You did well making sure your horizontal were straight and your vertical lines were perpendicular to the horizon. The other lines should be leading back to the vanish pointing.

    Rotate boxes: Really hard exercise. This was a solid attempt and the biggest issue I see is that your boxes are not aligned as tightly as they could be. The diagonals seem out of place in some areas. Keeping the boxes together will help you get a better rotation, which some of your boxes were lacking. Your horizontal and vertical boxes aren't rotated in relation to each other, they appear to be converging on the same VP. This is really evident on the horizontal boxes. Make sure to draw through all your boxes, I noticed some weren't.

    Organic Perspective: I'll say that overall you did good on this exercise. While your first page has some issue with misalignment and drawing over lines again, you definitely improved on the last page. Good job showing depth by changing the size of your boxes. In the future try to avoid going over your missed lines.

    Next Steps:

    I recommend you redo the Rough Perspective exercise and your Rotated Boxes exercise. I'm eager to put you onto the 250 box challenge but I think you should redo these assignment in order to learn more from that challenge. For the rough perspective, be sure to try to get all your lines in the general direction of the VP, as some lines went way off the point. For the rotated boxes, try to keep them closer together and get some more rotation.

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
    2 users agree
    4:51 AM, Friday May 29th 2020

    Congrats on finishing Lesson 1

    I'll start by saying your line work is impressive and very consistent. Your line homework is good and it seems you understood the point of the exercises. Same with ellipses, great job.

    For your box exercises it looks like you got the concept of VP and the relationship of parallel lines in a 3D cube. Your rotated box exercise also looks satisfactory.

    On the organic perspective: While your cubes are consistent in quality they are also consistent in size, which doesn't give it much depth as the boxes closest should be larger. It's expected that some boxes won't line up well and as such some of yours appear distorted. Following the Y shape method helps as it shows the three lines that the rest of the box will line up with. This way you can avoid conflicting lines in your boxes. No need to worry since you'll be getting a lot of practice with the next part.

    Next Steps:

    Be sure to look over the page on foreshortening your boxes and move on to 250 Box Challenge.

    This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
    1:15 PM, Wednesday May 27th 2020

    Thank you for your advice. I think moving onto the 250 Box Challenge will definitely help me with these exercises in the future.

    Second attempts: https://imgur.com/a/zM5qCok

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