larsBarnabee

Hi there!

Good work on Lesson 1.

Lines:

• Your superimposed lines look good for the most part, but do be careful to align your pen to the starting point of the line so that there's minimal fraying.

• Ghosted Lines look fine, but some of them are a bit wobbly, so be careful to draw smoothly and confidently when you ghost your lines.

• Ghosted Planes look good! Less wobbling here. A couple of your planes are missing the bisecting lines, so remember to draw those.

Ellipses:

• Table of Ellipses: Make sure that your ellipses are drawn tightly, ie, they should be packed together in the space, so that the edges of the ellipses touch. Good job touching the top and bottom boundaries. Do be careful though, your ellipses are coming out wobbly. Prioritize smoothness over accuracy - make sure you draw confidently/smoothly, and don't draw too slow. It can also help to ghost more before you draw the ellipse.

• Same thing with the Ellipses in planes, you do a good job hitting the boundaries, but there's some wobbling.

• Good job aligning your ellipses to the minor axis in the funnels exercise. Watch out for wobbly ellipses.

Boxes:

• Plotted Perspective is good, no issues there.

• Good job with your rough perspective! Most of your lines are parallel/perpendicular to the horizon line when they need to be.

• Your rotated boxes look great! Very nice job with this one.

• Organic Perspective is good as well, some of the perspective is a tiny bit off, but that's something that we work on in the 250 box challenge.

Overall, good work! I think you're ready for the 250 box challenge, but I want you to focus on ellipses when you do you warm-ups, and make sure that your ellipses aren't wobbly. It can also be helpful to practice more ghosted lines as well (again, make sure they stay smooth).

Have fun with your boxes! :)

Hi,

I've looked through your work and i must say your boxes are very well done! Here's a few things you can do to improve.

Lines

Overall, your lines wobble here. There's a number of reasons why that could be the case. Maybe you're overthinking it and not trusting your muscle memory. Maybe your arm trajectory is too fast or not fast enough. Or maybe, your ghosting needs improvement (e.g. avoid drawing the line until you can ghost 3 perfectly straight ones in a row, etc) For me personally, it's been the shifting of weight and loosening my grip a bit that really helped alot. Ultimately, it all comes down to practice and your familiarity with using your shoulder. With enough persistence, those lines will come around eventually. Try all these things for yourself and see what helps you the most.

Ellipses

There's wobbling in your ellipses too. Although there's not much problem with the allignment or with overshooting, there's an issue with deformed ellipses, especially with the ellipses on planes exercise. Don't concern yourself with fitting them into the plane, your main priority should be to maintain an even shape to these ellipses. You just need to be more familiar with using your shoulder and that takes practice.

Boxes

Your boxes are your strongest point here. There's a few convergence issues with the rotated boxes but it comes close in many cases. On the organic perspective, there's some rotation in 3d space but it still needs more. Try to apply more convergence to closer boxes and less to those farther away. Lastly, with the overlapping boxes, you want to superimpose the silhouettes to clarify which boxes are in front, giving more line weight to the closer boxes and less to those farther away. Don't add line weight to the inner lines like you did to the last couple of boxes. Other than that, a job well done!

You can do the superimposed lines table of ellipses and ellipses in planes as a daily 10-15 minute warmup. Alot of the spatial challenges are covered in the 250 box challenge.

I actually like it, that's pretty good in general...

Lines are pretty straight (maybe a couple are a little arching?) and the ellipses are quite good.

The only fault I can find is in the rotating boxes... I think that the boxes in the for perpendicular directions have their bases a little too long and a too drastic narrowing...

In fact the adjacent ones have maybe not enough space...

But it's generally good and I can see you got the idea... The hatching would have helped to make more easy to distinguish the boxes...