Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

9:29 PM, Wednesday February 19th 2020

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Just finished lesson 1 I can see that from that start I have gotten a lot more confidence when it comes to mark making :)

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3:52 PM, Thursday February 20th 2020

Hi Moddedstealth,

Starting with you superimposed lines, have you used a ruler to draw the original straight lines you are meant to be drawing on top of? It's really important for making sure you are actually drawing ypur lines straight. Your lines curve which could mean you aren't using your shoulder, or some people just have a natural habit af curving. You could try consciously curving in the other direction to correct it and eventually your brain should start associating that movement with straight lines. Also be careful of frayed lines at both ends. Take the time to place your pen at the right point every time.

Your Ghosted lines look nice and confident. Again, be careful to place you pen on the starting dot.

For your ghosted planes, sometimes you are missing one of the lines in the middle. The lines themselves are good. There are a couple of instances of wobble/curve where I think you may have subconsciously tried to ain fir the end point in the middle of the line. Remember confidence over accuracy. It doesn't matter if you miss. Accuracy will come with time.

On to your ellipses, when you are doing an exercise, concentrate on it. Don't draw extra ellipses out side of what you have been asked. You also appear to have extra pages of the table of ellipses and funnels. Don't grind. Instead add the exercises you have completed to a 10-15 warm up of 2-3 exercises. Make sure you are going around each ellipse 2 to 3 times and try to aim for the edges with you ghosting so you dont have floating ellipses. You have done a preety good job of keeping your ellipses aligned to the minor axis in the funnels.

Your plotted perspective is fine.

Your lines get a bit wobbly in rough perspective but that is usually the case as people can get overwhelmed actually using the lines to construct something that they forget to take the time with each individual line. Remember to ghost and draw each line with the care and confidence of you earlier exercises. In your first frame you have forgotten to add the extension lines and you don't need to extend beyond the horizon line. You have redone some lines to try and correct them. Try and avoid this. Once you have drawn a line leave it and move on, no matter how bad you think it is.

For your rotated boxes you haven't drawn through all your boxes. It's really important because this is your first introduction to rotating objects in 3d space relative to each other and the back lines give you a lot of information on how that works. Your lines look pretty good here and you hatching is neat. You have done a fairly good job with the rotation, just keep an eye on the backs of the boxes as sometimes you aren't rotating them as much as the front.

Your organic perspective is nice and lively with a good sense if depth. Remember not to correct lines. Your lines are mostly converging in the right direction so good job on this one

Before you move on I would like you to do one more page of superimposed lines using a ruler or straight edge to draw the first line, abd one more quadrant of rotated boxes, making sure to draw through them all. Other than that good job!

Next Steps:

1 page of superimposed lines and 1 quadrant of rotated boxes please.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
10:35 AM, Friday February 21st 2020

Thanks for the critical feed back I really appreciate the time you put into this :) I will redo the imposed lines as I admit i didnt do them correctly, but unfortuantely im not gonna redo the rotated boxes it frustrated me to much and stressed me out sorry, ive recently done the 250 box challenge which was useful, im current on lesson 2 draw the 3D arrows, I think im ready to continue

10:44 AM, Friday February 21st 2020
edited at 10:45 AM, Feb 21st 2020

Wait, you posted this on Wednesday and you've already done the 250 box challenge?

edited at 10:45 AM, Feb 21st 2020
12:58 PM, Friday February 21st 2020

Nono I completed lesson 1, weeks ago on Reddit but no one replied, I then realised I can upload my work on to Drawabox.

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