Thank you very much! I appreciate the feedback regarding the arrows and intersections. I will focus on those in future warm-ups.
Thank you so much!
Well done! Marking as complete.
Hello!
I'm Ignite, and I’ll be critiquing your submission using Elodin’s rubric. If a section has not been satisfactorily completed, I’ll request a re-work of a portion in order to help you understand the concept better. Here are my thoughts:
LINES:
1.Wobble in lines. In drawabox you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy:
You did this AMAZINGLY well for the superimposed lines... but didn't do it well for most of the rest of the exercises. For Ghosted Lines, Ghosted Planes, and even the boxes homework, it looks like almost every line connects one dot to another.... but wobbles along the way. What you should be aiming for is confidence first, then accuracy - so we should be seeing your lines NOT ending up at the second dot... but the line should be straight (ish). This is my biggest critique for every exercise you did.
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2.Fraying on both ends: Pass!
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3.Arching lines: Pass
4.Not plotting lines: Pass
5.Repeating lines: Pass
ELLIPSES:
1.Ellipses must be drawn through ellipses 2 to 3 times, (2 times preferably): Pass! Nice work.
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2.On the ellipse tables, keeping the ellipses should be kept within the bounds, each
ellipse touching each other, without overlapping: Pass!
3.Just like with lines, the ellipses must be drawn confidently, prioritizing confidence and smoothness,
over accuracy. Even in ghosted planes with ellipses: Pass, but can be improved. I would definitely test out running some ellipses faster, to see if you can smooth things out. Some of yours look like you are overthinking the shape a little, and it is causing distortion.
4.On funnels, the minor axis (the line in the middle) should cut ellipses in 2 symetrical halves: Pass
BOXES:
2.On all the boxes exercises the student should draw through boxes, except on the organic perspective, in which it's optional: Pass!
3.On rough perspective, width lines should be parallel to horizon and height lines perpendicular to horizon: Some of your lines are a little off from perfectly parallel, but that's to be expected as you learn to estimate these things. It's not a graded criteria, just something to keep in mind.
4.On rough perspective, they must use the line correction method: Pass!
5.On rotated boxes, corners between boxes must be kept close: Pass!
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6.On rotated boxes, some boxes aren't rotating: Pass!
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8.Lineweight should be added with confident ghosted lines, and solely to the part of lines to overlap, not to whole lines: Pass!
Bottom Line: You worked very hard to complete all the exercises, and only missed one principle; however, it's one of the core concepts of the course: Draw your lines confidently first, THEN worry about accuracy - I am requesting a small revision to help you work on more confident lines.
Awesome job following the rest of the instructions carefully, and completing the lessons correctly. Keep up the great work!
Next Steps:
2 pages of Ghosted Lines, focusing on CONFIDENCE first, then accuracy. Work on removing the wobble from your line by drawing faster, from the shoulder, and worrying less about accuracy. If needed, re-read and/or re-watch the Lines lesson.
1 page of Ghosted Planes - Same thing, focusing on CONFIDENCE, then accuracy. Great work, looking forward to seeing your progress my friend.
Marking as complete, but continue to improve that line work - Experiment with the following things, one at a time, to see if you can improve any of them to make your lines less wobbly:
Speed - If you are swooping the line too quickly, the ends may curve. Too slowly, and they will wobble.
Shoulder and elbow position - See if you are holding them loosely and confidently.
Hand and wrist firmness - Pretend your hand is immobile, like the end of a perfect line-drawing machine. It has no role except to move where the elbow and shoulder tell it.
Focus - Experiment with focusing at the end dot, the entire line, or a combination.
Ghosting - Only ghost in the direction you want to draw the line, and at the exact speed and direction you want to draw it.
Keep drawing, and best of luck!
-Ignite
DRAWABOX LESSON 1 - Rubric
Hello!
I'm Ignite, and I’ll be critiquing your submission, using Elodin’s rubric. If a section has not been satisfactorily completed, I’ll request a re-work of a portion in order to help you understand the concept better. Here are my thoughts:
Before I critique your work, a quick note about how to improve your photo-taking setup in the future.
Try to take the photo from top-down, so the page is square in frame - this will help us critique the art, especially the perspective.
For lighting, try to have either bright daylight, or two lamps shining from two angles - if you can't do this, just light the page as best you can from a 45 degree angle, avoiding shadows. The more light, the more detail will appear in the photo so we can critique better.
Hold the camera / phone as still as possible. Brace your hand against something if necessary. Even a tiny wobble can slightly blur the image, and reduce the detail we can see as we try to critique.
If you can, use your phone's native photo editor to GENTLY clean up the photos - make the background more white, etc. Be sure not to edit TOO much, or you'll lose detail and it will actually make it harder to critique.
Here's my Lesson 1 homework, which I took with my iPhone using two lamps about 12-18 inches away from the paper on either side, and the iPhone held over the page in between the lamps:
https://imgur.com/gallery/i2q9ZvF
Your work actually looks great, so if you take nothing else away, just improve your photo-taking!
On to the critique:
Lines:
1.Wobble in lines - None. Your lines look very confident!
2.Fraying on both ends - Little to none. Your lines start at a specific point, and only fray on one end. That said, it looks like some of your lines are getting pretty far from the originally drawn line, so be sure to add this drill to y our warmups.
3.Arching lines - Little to none. Nice work!
4.Not plotting lines. Your lines look like they were all plotted.
5.Repeating lines. None observed - nice.
Ellipses:
1.Ellipses must be drawn through ellipses 2 to 3 times, (2 times preferably) - Yep, nice.
2.On the ellipse tables, keeping the ellipses should be kept within the bounds, each
ellipse touching each other, without overlapping. You get a C+ here - Your ellipses look great for a first run. I recommend adding this drill to your warmups to improve your accuracy.
3.Just like with lines, the ellipses must be drawn confidently, prioritizing confidence and smoothness,
over accuracy. Even in ghosted planes with ellipses. Your ellipses look very confident, although in the ghosted planes exercise, it looks like your ellipses were a little less confident, and were not touching the edges for some of them. I'd add this drill to your warmups.
4.On funnels, the minor axis (the line in the middle) should cut ellipses in 2 symetrical halves. - B minus. Your ellipses start to get inaccurate as they get larger, and are no longer centered. However, it's difficult to tell exactly because of the angle you took the photos at - Please refer to the photo-taking tips at the top.
Boxes:
2.On all the boxes exercises the student should draw through boxes, except on the organic perspective, in which it's optional. A minus - I think you missed maybe a couple boxes on the rotated box exercise, but that one is tough! Nice work drawing through the rest of your boxes.
3.On rough perspective, width lines should be parallel to horizon and height lines perpendicular to horizon. Some of your width and height lines are not parallel/perpendicular to the horizon - this is to be expected, but keep it in mind as you continue drawing in one or two point perspective.
4.On rough perspective, they must use the line correction method. I'm giving you a "C" but only because your photos are very difficult to see. You did the exercise correctly though! Nice work.
5.On rotated boxes, corners between boxes must be kept close. Yep, nice.
6.On rotated boxes, some boxes aren't rotating. Nope, you fully rotated boxes. Nice work.
7.On organic perspective and rotated boxes it's normal for the perspective to have mistakes,no need to critique the student harshly as they will work on it on the box challenge.
8.Lineweight should be added with confident ghosted lines, and solely to the part of lines to overlap, not to whole lines.
Overall, I'm marking this complete -
Next Steps:
Up next, 250 box challenge!
Be sure to note which drills I added as homework for you to focus on.
Novus, thank you for the detailed reply! I will keep all of this in mind as I work through the 250 box challenge. Have a good one,
ignitebasics
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