gizm0guts

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  • Sharing the Knowledge
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    11:23 PM, Monday August 1st 2022

    Some of your lines in the first section of exercises seem to be wobbly and unsure or drawn too quickly. Make sure you are ghosting your lines in one direction multiple times, until you're sure you have the correct angle, length, and speed before you place your mark for both your straight lines and your ellipses. This way, your lines come away clean and confident.

    Also watch out for repeating or correcting mistakes, as drawing a new line over a mistake will only draw attention to it and make your work seem messier. When you draw a line with an incorrect angle or distance, just leave it be as if it were drawn correctly.

    Keep in mind as well that adding subtle lineweight to the silhouette of your forms is a good way to accentuate the form and make it easier to tell the viewer it's orientation in space.

    Next Steps:

    When doing your warm-ups, try revisiting the superimposed and ghosted lines or planes exercises to build up your markmaking skills.

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    11:17 PM, Monday August 1st 2022

    Some of your lines in the third section of exercises seem wobbly and unsure. Make sure you are ghosting your lines in one direction multiple times, until you're sure you have the correct angle, length, and speed before you place your mark for both your straight lines and your ellipses. This way, your lines come away clean and confident.

    Also watch out for repeating or correcting mistakes, as drawing a new line over a mistake will only draw attention to it and make your work seem messier. When you draw a line with an incorrect angle or distance, just leave it be as if it were drawn correctly.

    Keep in mind as well that adding subtle lineweight to the silhouette of your forms is a good way to accentuate the form and make it easier to tell the viewer it's orientation in space.

    Next Steps:

    When doing your warm ups, try revisiting the superimposed and ghosted lines or planes exercises to do build up your markmaking skills.

    This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete. In order for the student to receive their completion badge, this critique will need 2 agreements from other members of the community.
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    2:25 AM, Saturday July 30th 2022

    Your name is the best and I'm mad it's not mine. Your lines and ellipses seem very wobbly like you're either drawing each one too slowly or you're not ghosting from start to end to find the right speed and length before creating each mark. Make sure you are using the ghosting method and drawing your lines quickly and commiting to the angle and length as soon as your pen hits the paper.

    Next Steps:

    You seem to have Section 3 of the homework down well, but your lines still need a bit of work. Try going back over Sections 1 and 2 and read over the common mistakes and tips before starting each excercise. One thing that can make your lines wobbly towards the end is not getting enough length ghosted before drawing your lines, so don't be afraid to overshoot for the sake of line quality over accuracy!

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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    2:15 AM, Saturday July 30th 2022

    Your lines seem very wobbly. Make sure you're ghosting from start to finish multiple times so you have the correct length and speed before making your marks.

    Next Steps:

    Practice more on the Lines section of Lesson 1. Try reading each section for these excercises again and go over the common mistakes and tips before starting each of the excercises.

    When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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    2:28 AM, Thursday July 28th 2022

    There seems to be a lot of wobbling with your lines where they're either drawn too slowly or drawn from the wrist. Try revisiting the ghosted lines excercise and read through the article and common mistakes. Make sure you're drawing all of your lines from your shoulder and not your wrist, or they can end up warped and tight when they should be neat and smooth.

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