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11:55 AM, Wednesday July 14th 2021
edited at 1:29 PM, Jul 14th 2021

As you've help me critique my work, I'll also critique your work. I am a beginner and I will give feedback base on my understanding, instructions by Uncomfortable and observations. In my honest opinion, In your superimposed lines your lines are good but some of the longer lines are wobbly. I suggest you change your speed and execute your lines confidently. The goal in this lesson is to improve confidence making smooth lines. Accuracy is only a second matter. In ghosted lines, your accuracy is really good, however "maybe" because you mind too much on your accuracy, you forgot to make your lines smooth and confident. Accuracy and confidence is important in this lesson. Overall they're good.

I have observed that you are more confident in drawing ellipses than lines. Most of your ellipses fit on the planes and they're smooth-looking. My only concern in your table of ellipses is that there are spaces. All ellipses should snuggle and be fit inside the plane.

In your plotted perspective, there are some boxes that have scratchy lines. Other than that, the direction of the lines towards the VP are correct as well as the space between the two VPs. There are no distorted boxes. Over-all it's good. For your boxes in rough perspective and organic perspective. Youhave a sense of where the box will be facing. The boxes are actually rotating, the gaps are narrow and consistent which is good, however some lines are a little bit scratchy and messy. I think you have the sense of perspective and you understand it and it will improve more in 250 box challenge.

I suggest to perform ghosted lines as warm-up before drawing. It improves confidence and accuracy.

Good job!

P.S english is not my first language but I hope you understand

edited at 1:29 PM, Jul 14th 2021
10:27 PM, Friday July 16th 2021

Understood perfectly!

I can see what you mean about my line smoothness - I'm in the early stage of 250 boxes and will continue to warm up with ghosting exercises.

Thanks for taking the time to review my work!

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9:46 AM, Saturday July 10th 2021

Welcome! Let’s see.

Your superimposed lines look good – smooth, and properly lined up at the start – but be mindful of their trajectory. Your ghosted lines start off a little rough, but improve nicely by the time you reach the planes. Still, I’d recommend you take some time to try out different speeds, to figure out the one that’s best suited for you; I feel like you’re going a little faster than you need to, right now. Also, remember to plot start/end points for all lines (including the non-diagonal center lines of the planes).

The table of ellipses exercise looks mostly good. There’s sometimes a little stiffness to your ellipses, so be sure to ghost them until you’re comfortable, then commit. Also, go for a full 2 rotations, not 1 and change. Also also, remember that ellipses need to touch all available sides of the plane; some of your smaller ones float inside it. The ellipses in planes are nicely done, if at times a little uneven. Recall that our #1 priority is smoothness, and roundness, not accuracy. Don’t stress about the latter to the point where it impacts the former. The funnels look good, save for the one that’s missing a minor axis… (the corner one). Remember that we’re not simply drawing ‘roughly upright’ ellipses; we’re drawing ellipses that are aligned to an axis. This is important, because in future lessons the minor axis will not be a simple straight line.

The plotted perspective looks nice, but the lineweight is way too strong. A single superimposed line is enough, usually.

This goes for the rough perspective exercise, too. The convergences here are good, but the line quality is severely lacking. There’s no reason for this, however. These lines are in no way different from any of the earlier ones – try not to get overwhelmed by the big picture.

The rotated boxes exercise is very rushed. For one, a lot of the boxes haven’t been fully drawn through (a box consists of 12 lines; count how many of yours have that many). Also, the hatching is very sloppy, though in the instructions we mention that a hatching line is no different from a normal ghosted line, as far as the work put into it goes. Not to mention that the point of it is to make things easier to understand, whereas here it hides your linework. The issues of not rotating, and not keeping the gaps narrow are normally expected in this exercise, but in the context of the rest of it, come across as entirely avoidable, should you have taken some more time.

The organic perspective exercise looks alright, though I’ve a few things to point out. First, a box that overlaps another shouldn’t hide its lines. Second, lineweight is not recommended for this exercise, as it has a habit of making things seem closer to the viewer, and that’s not something we want from our further-off boxes. Third, you should be plotting start/end points for all of these lines; not just the ones that comprise the initial Y-shape. And fourth, you should be a little more mindful of the size of your boxes, as it’s one of the main things that communicates the idea of flow.

Next Steps:

This submission is by no means bad, but I’ll assign some re-do’s, to make sure that our philosophy is being clearly understood.

1 page of funnels

1 frame of rough perspective

1 quadrant (1/4th) of rotated boxes.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
10:59 PM, Saturday July 10th 2021

Thank you!

Here are the re-dos. I am concerned about what the rough perspective shows about my spatial reasoning - I'm missing the vanishing point pretty bad.

I think rotated boxes may have turned out a little better - I think I 'get it', but lose track of all the lines easily.

Do you think I should move on to '250 Boxes' or take another pass over lesson 1?

6:37 AM, Sunday July 11th 2021

Line quality is still lacking, so definitely continue working on that, but what I was hoping would improve has, so you're clear to move on.

Next Steps:

250 Box Challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
7:04 AM, Sunday July 11th 2021

Thanks again!

RE: Line quality - Yes, I see it.

I may try to add some super-imposed lines into my routine, such as it is, as a warmup. Any other suggestions?

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