avidania

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    6:38 AM, Wednesday June 24th 2020

    Apologies for the late reply, things have been busy and my health isn't in the best. So first things first, ellipses must be rounded to the where you should be able to fold them in two symmetrical halves. Also keep confidence > accuracy always. Much of your wobble shows that you lack said confidence. Also always ghost your lines and ellipses, no exceptions. The ghosting method will always remain in use even after you're done with Lesson 1.

    Speaking of Lesson 1, I will allow you to move on seeing as how you have improved your line quality and confidence having that most of your lines have little wobble in them. However, I would recommend you to use the ghosted planes with ellipses as part of your 15 minute warmup before doing any drawing to help you further improve in your ellipse work. All in all, a job well done!

    Next Steps:

    Move onto the 250 box challenge but make sure you're using the past Lesson 1 exercises as your warmups before doing the boxes or anything relating to drawing

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    2:17 AM, Thursday June 18th 2020

    Hello! Sorry for being late myself, I checked your revisions and I think there's still plenty of work that needs to be done but overall you did a good job despite that there's still some wobble here and there. Remember that confidence from drawing or ghosting straight lines comes first, don't be afraid if you're overshooting, you'll get more accurate over time. The organic perspective is fine, if it gets a little bit confusing to follow at times. Still you did a good job with it, and keeping sure the parallel lines at consistent. You did a great job with the revisions in total.

    Next Steps:

    Keep doing the 250 boxes challenge. Best of luck!

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    2:08 AM, Thursday June 18th 2020

    Hello, I'll be looking over your work! First off, your superimposed lines have fraying on both sides. While its fairly normal to have it frayed on one end, make sure to take your time and place your pen so it doesn't fray too much.

    Onto your ghosting lines and planes, you focus too much on accuracy and making sure you hit the end point over confidence. Its important to make sure that the lines are smooth and straight first, the accuracy on hitting the dots will come eventually. To add, do not superimpose the lines or try to add any "correction" lines to it, it only makes it look messy which persists in the following exercises

    Ellipses and every exercise relating to it shows that you're still struggling and that's fine. I would add that the ghosting applies still to the ellipses and every exercise/lesson after. Plenty of your ellipses are rigid and barely even an ellipse.There's a few ellipses that shows some confidence in your lines and you drew through it twice or thrice which you did well. Just remember to ghost more often and ghost plenty to show the confidence in the lines to maintain an ellipse form. The funnels were slightly slanted with a similar problem with the ellipses, just like the table of ellipses exercise. But you'll eventually get better on them as you keep doing them as a warmup so don't worry too much about it.

    For the boxes, the plotted perspective looks fine although you might need to look into your pen about the messy smudges. Rough perspective, same thing applies, no correction lines on the boxes or superimposing on them, Don't undershoot your lines, many of them barely even hit the end point, again, its better to overshoot even just a little. Besides that, you did a good job in being aware of how the lines should be placed and where they should behave in relation to the horizontal line.

    Rotated boxes, you did a decent job with rotating the boxes overall and drew through the boxes properly besides the mentioned correcting lines attempt while still keeping the gaps between the boxes consistent and narrow. And finally for organic perspective, you did a good job with it but try not to make the line so heavily when/if doing them as warmups. Overall, you did fine but there's still plenty of room for improvement for getting the set of parallel lines to converge more consistently.

    Overall you did a good, if very messy job.

    Next Steps:

    I'd like to see 1 page of ghosted planes with ellipses and not a single line superimposed or corrected in sight if you can, please. Use the ghosting method often from the shoulder. It takes a while getting used to it but you'll get there

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
    10:16 PM, Monday April 20th 2020

    Oh yeah, of course, marking it as complete. Best of luck in your art journey!

    Next Steps:

    Onto the following lessons!

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    10:36 PM, Tuesday April 14th 2020

    I can only see the superimposed lines in the imgur link. Did you intend to post an album, because I can only see one image in there? Regardless, I think you're looking too much into accuracy from the wobble of the lines alone with some frawying on the starting end of the lines. Take your time and be patient to place your pen on the starting point to avoid fraying on both sides. The important thing is creating a smooth, confident line, the accuracy of hitting the end points comes later

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    10:29 PM, Tuesday April 14th 2020

    Hello! I'll looking over your work and give you some critique to help you.

    For superimposed lines, there's one or two lines with some slight fraying on the starting point. Take your time and be patient to place your pen on the starting point to avoid fraying on both sides, some to the point where its hard to tell where the lines started and where it ends. Remember, don't rush through.

    Getting it out of the way, have you been utilizing drawing from the shoulder? Many of your lines completely fell short of the mark where you're supposed to be, with most of your planes and boxes have double or even triple lines drawn or superimposed on them. Avoid drawing over them and move on if you've made a mistake. Besides that, take your time to line up the pen onto the starting point before making a mark on the paper. Accuracy of hitting the end points comes later, the important thing first is creating a consistent, confident straight line.

    Ellipses are fine, some are obviously wobbly and went out of the tables and overlap with each other but you're not expected to get it nicely done in one go. Just make sure you don't overlap with each other or make space them out so much, you need to make them fit within the table and each other. The ones on planes definitely have some wobble and distorted lines in them as if you either changed your mind halfway through or hesitated in the middle of drawing lines. Make sure you utilize ghosting before making a mark, because you will need to do a lot of ghosting for the next lessons. Funnels have a similar problem, keep them snug and fit with each other and don't space it out between them.

    Boxes have the same problem with the lines as I mentioned, DO NOT hide your wobbly lines or marks by drawing over them, you're creating a fuzzy-like texture to them, something that I discourage you from doing it in the future to hide your mistakes. Draw the lines through ONCE and make sure you properly ghost before placing a line. Besides that, you did a decent job with understanding where the lines should be placed, but there's too much superimposed lines which is telling you're not confident about it in the first place.

    For organic perspective, create more overlaps between the boxes, the difference is too minimal to make it convincing to the viewer that the boxes are moving through the 3D space. Start with the big boxes and go smaller as you move across the line to the end. Also to add, you should be doing 3 frames of this exercise as shown in the example homework. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/organicperspective Don't worry too muc about the perspective of the boxes, that can be improved during the 250 box challenge.

    Overall, you did a decent job but much of your lines shown a lack of confidence from how much it was superimposed in an attempt to hide your mistakes, and that's really stopping you from moving on.

    Next Steps:

    I want you to fill 1 page entirely with ghosted planes, leaving little to no room of space left within the page and 1 page of organic perspective, this time with three frames as shown in the example homework. To reiterate, ghosting is one of the most important things to do along with drawing from the shoulder and you will have to do these two all the time in the coming 250 box challenge

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
    9:55 PM, Tuesday April 14th 2020

    Yep, there's still lots of arcing and wobble but that can be improved over time. You did a swell job with it, move onto the 250 box challenge. Best of luck!

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    11:00 PM, Wednesday April 8th 2020

    Hello! I'll looking over your work and give you some critique to help you

    For superimposed lines, there's one or two lines with some slight fraying on the starting point. Take your time and be patient to place your pen on the starting point to avoid fraying on both sides

    Ghosting lines and planes have the same problem in that some miss both points. Same thing as above, take your time to line up the pen onto the starting point before making a mark on the paper. There is some slight arcing on the lines so you will need to be a bit conscious with drawing the line in the opposite direction. Don't worry if you do not hit the end point, the important thing first and foremost is creating a consistent, confiddent straight line. The accuracy of hitting the end points will come eventually.

    Ellipses. Don't make overlap one ellipse with another. Make sure they just fit inbetween the ellipses and within the table in each ellipse, take your time with ghosting them first and maintain a consistent, even shape.For ellipses on planes, lots of them are very uneven and even some of them are wobbly, especially seen in the funnels. Again, make sure you ghost them before doing it, don't worry if it isn't good, ellipses are one of the harder things to pull off nicely.

    Plotted perspective looks fine though I noted there's an attempt to erase your mistakes by overlapping it with a pencil and I recommend you to not correct your mistakes or hide it in that way in the future.

    Rough perspective, the lines are super wobbly, a very different look compared to your lines and planes exercise, don't just guesstimate on where and be aware on how each line should behave. You also forgot to add extension lines to intersect them with the horizon line in the second page of the exercise. And finally, do not superimpose or correct your lines for a lot of those. Again, ghost properly, don't be afraid to rotate your page to keep a consistently straight line throughout the exrercise.

    The rotated boxes and organic perspective have a lot of superimposing lines that gives a very fuzzy, heavy texture-like to it, something that I discourage you from doing it in the future to hide your mistakes. Also to add, make sure you draw through all of your boxes in the rotated box. The same applies as mentioned above in which you need to practice ghosting properly. I will point out that you did the rotation decently for the rotated boxes and that you did a job well done with lesson 1 overall.

    Next Steps:

    I would like to see 1 more page of rough perspective, complete with the extension lines along with another page of rotated boxes. You are doing very well with the exercises but I would like to see these without the lines being so heavily superimposed and clearly drawn on top of another to hide your mistakes. Keep in mind you're supposed to draw a line once and be sure to ghost everytime. Keep up the good work!

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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