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Thank you :D

Thanks for the critique!

I'll keep the convergence issue in mind.

Hi Spacehatbilly, congrats on finishing lesson 1!

I'm Miu and i'll do my best at giving a community critique. If you feel like my critique is lacking/unfair, feel free to head over to discord and ask for someone else to look over it as well.

Lines:

Your "Superimposed Lines" came out great. Nice, confident lines with a well defined starting point and only fraying on one end.

On your "Ghosted Lines" you have a variety of confident, straight lines and some where you seemed to have prioritized accuracy over confidence which resulted in some slight waving. Don't be afraid to miss the second dot by a lot, especially in the beginning, and remember that we want to focus on confidence first.

Overall your "Ghosted Planes" look decent. You placed dots for every line and played with a variety of planes. However, you seem to subconciously correct a lot of your lines for accuracy, which is noticable in a sharp kink/sudden change of direction. So here as well, focus on confidence and it's perfectly fine and normal to miss the dots.

Elipses:

The "Table Of Ellipses" look neat. Your ellipses are followed trough twice, while aiming to keep them within the borders and slightly touching each other. You also experimented with a wide range of sizes and tilts, without sacrificing your confidence and follow-through.

Same for the "Ellipses in Planes" your confidence shines and most of your ellipses are super smooth, while also touching the borders of the planes. Nice!

The "Funnels" are really solid as well. All ellipses are smooth, touch each other and the funnel edges. You varried the width of the ellipses towards bigger on the outside. To be a little nit-picky: Some ellipses tilt of the minor axis, most tilts are really subtle, which is a good step in the right direction, i'd say it's especially noticable on the outmost ellipses in the two funnels at the bottom of the page, so that is something to pay attention to, if you use this exercise as a warm-up in the future.

Boxes

"Plotted Perspective" looks great with clean hatching.

In the "Rough Perspective" you kept in mind that the horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon and the vertical lines perpendicular to that. You extended the lines back to the horizon to check and played with a wide variety of box shapes. Good! For the line quality refer to the line section above.

Now for the "Rotated Boxes", i think you did a great job rotating the boxes, actually you rotated them quiet extreme, which is why you probably didn't put in any corner boxes. You kept the distance between the boxes consistent, which helped with the rotation. I see some wobbly lines, so try not to get baited by the dots into accuracy over confidence, but overall sold job, on this though exercise and nice hatching!

For the future, try to go for a more subtle rotation so you can fit those corner boxes without making a mess.

And finally "Organic Perspective". Overall nice range of sizes and orientations that make the overarching perspective believable. The perspective on the individual boxes looks super solid as well, really good job! In the second frame on the first page it looks like you went over some lines multiple times either to hide some wobbling or to add some lineweight, both isn't really part of this lesson yet.

The stuff about lineweight gets explained in the 250 Box Challenge. 

All in all, you did a really good job with these exercises. Maybe try to pay attention to that subconcious shift in direction i talked about in the "Line"-section, but you are good to go.

Good luck on the 250 box challenge and keep up the good work!

Hello Jaxson, congrats on finishing Lesson 1!

I'm Miu and i'll do my best at giving a community critique. If you feel like my critique is lacking/unfair, feel free to head over to discord and ask for someone else to look over it as well.

Lines:

The "Superimposed Lines" look good, most have a well defined starting point and only fray on the other end. The curved lines on one page fray on both sides, so keep this in mind for the future. With the longer lines, there is some waving noticable, but it seems like you alredy improved on the second page a lot and your lines fray less.

On your "Ghosted Lines" you produced nice and confident lines. However most lines show some slight arching, so that's something to keep in mind, when doing this exercise in the future and conciously arching the lines in the opposite direction.

For the "Ghosted Planes" you contiued with some confident lines. Some lines show some wobbling, especially the really long ones and on some i notice, that you have a little flick that goes in another direction, like you wanted to correct the line last moment. Remember, in these exercises we want to prioritize confidence over accuracy!

Elipses:

Your "Table Of Ellipses" in mostly filled with confident ellipes, that are followed through twice, while aiming to keep them within the borders and slightly touching each other. You also experimented with a wide range of sizes and tilts, solid effort! A couple show some slight wobbling, but nothing to worry about, if you continue to prioritize confidence.

Same for the "Ellipses in Planes". Almost all fit snugly into the planes and are drawn with solid confidence. Good Job!

The "Funnels" are solid as well. All ellipses touch each other and the borders of the funnel. Some of the out-most ellipses seem to tilt of the minor axis, keep this in mind for the furture. A couple of ellipses seem to be drawn through more than 3 times. Try to keep it to three, preferably two times.

Boxes:

"Plotted Perspective" looks great with clean hatching.

In the "Rough Perspective" exercise you show a good grasp of one point perspective and keeping the horizontal edges parallel to the horizon, while the vertical edges are mostly perpendicular to the horizon. Your line confidence is overall good, with some lines seeming to prioritize accuracy instead, but i have mentioned that before.

Now for the "Rotated Boxes", i think you did a solid job. It's obvious, that you struggled quiet a bit, especially with the corner boxes and finding their right direction of rotation. One thing that would help with that in the future is to keep the gaps between the boxes consistent, which you mostly did, just not on the outer/corner boxes. Most of the other boxes are properly rotated, good job. The line quality is a little hit or miss, but it's a complicated excercise so, remember the confidence thing in the futrue. One other thing i noticed is that you went over some lines multiple times (upper right quadrant) refrain from the urge to correct lines (multiple times) this makes the result usually more messy and less readable.

And finally "Organic Perspective". Overall nice range of sizes and orientation that make the overarching perspective believable. The perspective on the individual boxes is kinda hit or miss, but don't worry to much about this, you have a long 250 boxes ahead of you, where your perspective is going to improve anyway.

All in all, you did a really good job with these exercises. Try to focus on confident lines instead of accuracy especially with intimidating tasks.

Good luck on the 250 box challenge and keep up the good work!

Hello Quirkytan. Congrats on finishing Lesson 1!

I'm Miu and i'll do my best at giving a community critique. If you feel like my critique is lacking/unfair, feel free to head over to discord and ask for someone else to look over it as well.

Lines:

Your "Superimposed Lines" came out great. Nice, confident lines with a well defined starting point and only fraying on one end.

For your "Ghostes Lines" you prioritized confidence and your lines came out smooth. I notice some slight arching in some, especially with the longer lines. You can try to counteract this by trying to slightly arch the line in the opposite direction in your future warm-ups. Also, try not to construct any shapes with these lines yet. This can put additional (subconcious) pressure on you to want to improve the line accuracy over confidence (e.g. you have repeated a line on the "box" for accuracy)

The "Ghosted Planes" came out nice and confident with smooth lines. Good Job!

Ellipses:

In the "Table of Ellipses" your ellipses are followed through twice, while aiming to keep them within the borders and slightly touching each other. If you mean by "i really struggle with ellipses" that your ellipses are sometimes more egg-shaped then i would say, don't worry too much about it, they will get more accurate and ellipse-shaped with practice. You draw confident and smooth, the accuracy in form will follow with time.

Is there anthing else you feel like you struggle with in particular while drawing ellipses? Feel free to ask any additional questions.

In the "Ellipses In Planes" the same thing applies, confident, smooth ellipese that fit more or less snugly into the planes. All good here.

For the "Funnels" you continue to prioritize confident lines, while also having most ellipses touch each other and the bounds of the funnels. I notice some of your ellipses are slightly tilting off the minor axis, but otherwise good job as well.

Boxes:

I do have to ask you for a revision/rework on the "Plotted Perspective". You did not draw through the boxes and didn't extend the lines all the way to the vanishing points. Also you would probably benefit from more variety in your box placement as currently they all have their upper edge over the horizon line and the lower edge under the horizon. Try to put some boxes completely over or under the horizon line.

In the "Rough Perspective" exercise you continue to prioritize confidence, which is great. Using dots to estimate the boxes and then confidently executing the lines. Overall you tried a nice variety of different sizes, above, below and on the horizon line. You kept most of the lines parallel and perpendicular to the horizon, quiet a solid effort. However i have noticed, that you repeated some lines to correct their trajectory. Remember we want to prioritize confident lines over accurate ones. I know it's tempting to correct the lines, but leave that for the next box you draw.

For the "Rotated Boxes" overall you did a good job. You contiued with your confident lines, each box is properly roatetd with their own vanishing points and they are decently evenly spaced out. The two boxes i would most critique are the corner boxes on the left side, they seem weirdly tilted, which might be due to the fact that the inner/invisible corner is off, but that's nothing to worry to much about, as you will draw plenty of boxes in the next challenge. BUT, you did the same thing as in the last exercise, where you tried to correct some lines and improve their tilt/accuracy. Don't :D

Same for the "Organic Perspective", you also tried to correct some lines here. But other than that i think you did a really good job with this exercise! Mostly clean and confident lines, a nice variation and rotation of the different boxes, and by starting with big boxes and making them smaller and smaller you did convey a solid sense of depth.

All in all, i think you did well on Lesson 1. But to mark this lesson as complete i have to ask you to provide a revison of the "Plottet Perspective".

Just reply with an imgur link and i'll check it out.

Hey there, it seems like your submission is missing these exercises:

• Table of ellipses

• Plottet Perspective

• Rough Perspective

• Rotated Boxes

• Organic Perspective

If you want a critique, you have to submit all the homework from lesson 1 at once.

Hi Sharka and congrats on finishing lesson 1!

I'm Miu and i'll do my best at giving a community critique. If you feel like my critique is lacking/unfair, feel free to head over to discord and ask for someone else to look over it as well.

Lines

The "Superimposed Lines" look great, all have a well defined starting point and only fray on the other end. With the longer lines, there is some waving noticable, but it seems like you alredy improved on the second page a lot and your lines fray less.

On your "Ghosted Lines" you produced awesome and confident lines. A couple of lines show some slight arching, so that's something to keep in mind, when doing this exercise in the future, but overall you did really well, and even managed to hit most of the dots.

For the "Ghosted Planes" you contiued with your confident lines. The occadional wavy line sneaks its way into the planes, and a couple seem like you tried to correct the path of you line which leads to a little wobble at the end. Nothing to worry about, but keep in mind, that we want to prioritize confidence over accuracy right now.

Elipses

Your confidence carries over into the "Table Of Ellipses". Your ellipses are followed trough twice, while aiming to keep them within the borders and slightly touching each other. You also experimented with a wide range of sizes and tilts, without sacrificing your confidence and follow-through.

Same for the "Ellipses in Planes" your confidence shines and most of your ellipses are super smooth, while also touching the borders of the planes. Nice!

The "Funnels" are really solid as well. All ellipses are smooth, touch each other and the funnel edges. In the middle funnel (with 6 ellipses total) the ones on the right seem to tilt a little off the minor axis. For future warm-ups you might want to experiment a little more with the increase of width the further out from the center the ellipses are, but that's just a note.

Boxes

"Plotted Perspective" looks great with clean hatching.

In the "Rough Perspective" exercise your line confidence seems a little lessened, probably because it's a really intimidating and hard exercise, where everyone wants to connect the dots as best as they can, while sacrificing confidence. For the majority of the boxes you keept in mind, that the horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon and the vertical lines perpendicular to that. On the first page the rightmost box in the last third is really wonky, which seems to be a result of a sloppy placed dots. Nothing too dramatic, just keep this in mind, when you do this exercise as a warm-up in the future.

Now for the "Rotated Boxes", i think you did a great job rotating the boxes, actually you rotated them quiet extreme, especially in the upper left quadrant. You kept the distance between the boxes consistent, which helped with the rotation. I see some wobbly lines, so try not to get baited by the dots into accuracy over confidence, but overall sold job, on this though exercise!

And finally "Organic Perspective". Overall nice range of sizes and orientation that make the overarching perspective believable. You even went the extra mile and drew through some of them. But here as well, you fall back to some wobbly lines. And on the second page it looks like you didn't put any dots down to mark the corners of your boxes first (discrad this critisism if you did place some and i'm just not seeing them). The perspective on the individual boxes is kinda hit or miss, but don't worry to much about this, you have a long 250 boxes ahead of you, where your perspective is going to improve anyway.

All in all, you did a really good job with these exercises. Try to focus on confident lines instead of accuracy especially with intimidating tasks, but you have proven that you can draw confident lines already, so i'm not too worried about this.

Good luck on the 250 box challenge and keep up the good work!

Hey there MardukMishima, congrats on finishing lesson 1!

I'm Miu and i'll do my best at giving a community critique. If you feel like my critique is lacking/unfair, feel free to head over to discord and ask for someone else to look over it as well.

Lines:

Your "Superimposed Lines" came out great. Nice, confident lines with a well defined starting point and only fraying on one end.

Same for the "Ghosted Lines". Prioritizing confidence over accuracy is key, as accuracy will come with time and mileage.

The "Ghosted Planes" put this into practice and here you continued with your confident lines and it seems like your accuracy is already improving. Good Job!

A tiny nit-pick i have with this is that you mostly went with orthogonal planes/rectangles. If you do this exercise as warmup in the future try to incorporate some more slanted planes/rectangles with a greater variance in corner angles.

Ellipses:

Your confidence carries over into the "Table Of Ellipses". Your ellipses are followed trough twice, while aiming to keep them within the borders and slightly touching each other. You also experimented with a wide range of sizes and tilts, without sacrificing your confidence and follow-through.

In the "Ellipses In Planes" the same thing applies, confident, smooth ellipese that fit more or less snugly into the planes.

I noticed that you drew these through three times, here and there more like 3.5 times. Try to keep the follow-through to either 2 or 3 in the future, as the ultimate end goal is to draw smooth ellipses in one line. However don't worry to much about this, you still have plenty of time to use these exercises as warmup and improve over time.

Same thing applies for the "Funnels". Great confidence with smooth lines, but especially in the first two funnels the ellipses aren't touching. And the out-most ellipses of the first funnel seem to be "floating". The goal of this exercise is to align the ellipses along the minor axis, while being confined to the funnel shape. Other than that, i really like, that you continually widened the ellipses as you moved further from the center.

Boxes:

"Plotted Perspective" looks great with clean hatching.

In the "Rough Perspective" exercise you continue to prioritize confidence, which is great. Using dots to estimate the boxes and then confidently executing the lines. Maybe a note on the dots, as i haven't mentioned it yet. Try to keep your dots as small as possible. Big dots can leave you with a greater margin of error, while technically "hitting" the target.

There are a couple of boxes that look slightly slanted, keep in mind, that the width lines sould be parallel to the horizon, while the height should be perpendicular. Overall a solid job as the extended lines are mostly close to the vanishing point.

For the "Rotated Boxes" you kept the rotations pretty tame. And while you kept the gaps between the boxes in front consistend, on the back the gaps vary a lot, especially noticable in the right upper corner. The boxes on the lower right vanish in the wrong direction in the horizontal vp direction (I hope i got across what i mean by that, it's hard to describe). But thats me being overly nit-picky and more of an observation than an actual critique. It's a hard exercise and i think you did a solid job, with room for improvement, but the 250 box challenge will do just that.

One kinda off topic note here: try to keep your hatching lines smooth and confident as well (Yes, that means ghosting them.). They are a little all over the place and wobbly here.

Last but not least "Organic Perspective". Looks really good as well, nice progression from big to small boxes and a lot of different orientations. One thing, although most of your lines are really confident and pretty accurate, you seem to have some lines where you wanted to correct the lines with another one on top. I know it's tempting but try not to do this.

All in all, you did a good job with these exercises. Sure there is some room for improvement, but your line confidence is pretty solid and it seems like you have a basic understanding of perspective already, so i'm gonna mark your submission as complete.

Good luck on the 250 box challenge, keep up the good work!

Heyo :)

Somehow i completely missed that we were allowed (or even encouraged) to focus on one direction to draw our lines in the first exercise ^^

I see your point with the corner boxes (Rotated Boxes), i was a little confused about them. Guess this exercise and the Funnels are getting some priority in my warm ups for now.

Haha... I actually try to keep my enthusiasm down and take a more moderate and measured approach this time around. (I tried DAB 3+ years ago on my own, but got frustrated and burned out midway through lesson 2, when my fear of failure got the better of me and had me quit drawing altogether shortly after xD)

Thank you for the thorough critique and the encouraging words!