Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
8:13 PM, Thursday September 10th 2020
lesson 1 I didnt get any feedbacks when I posted on the reddit fourm so im posting again here.
Hi there! First time critiquing, and I only just finished Lesson 1 myself, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Unfortunately, since I don't have the completion badge (haven't gotten feedback for my lesson 1 HW), I'm not sure if I'm qualified to critique this. Let me know if I'm not, sorry!
1) Lines
Your lines look great! Most of them are confident and don't wobble. Occasionally if you look reaaally hard, you can see that in some lines that would've missed the endpoint had they been straight, the end of the line will course-correct and it results in a really small wobble at the end. Honestly, I wouldn't really think that it's a big deal, considering that those lines are confident and straight overall, I'd just say, remind yourself to make your line confident even if you miss the endpoint.
One note for the ghosted planes, I think you could've used your space a bit better, so when you do this for warm-up in the future, try and line your planes up so that they aren't all spread out. I think there's a paragraph on the homework description that talks about doing this.
2) Ellipses
Looking at your Tables, there's a bit of wobbling, but it seems to get better as you go through your exercise, so that's good! Try and watch for that in the future anyway.
Sometimes in your funnels, at the end of the funnel, the ellipse will slant a bit, and the minor axis won't cut it in half properly, so make sure you watch for that also. I've seen someone else (Elodin) say that it's okay to ignore the arches above and below the minor axis line if they make it so that the ellipses don't align with the minor axis. Prioritize drawing the ellipses so that the minor axis cuts them in half :)
Overall, your Ellipses look fine to me, but when you draw through them sometimes the lines aren't consistent. I'm not sure how to help with that, especially since it happens to me as well, but it might help to ghost more, or focus on letting muscle memory draw the ellipses (since sometimes the seperation between the first and second pass of the ellipse can come from course correction)
3) Boxes
Plotted Perspective looks great! Ideally it seems like three frames is better than two, but I don't think that's super important? You'll have to ask someone else about that.
Rough Perspective looks fine as well, you do a good job of keeping your lines parallel or perpendicular to the horizon line, even if the lines sometimes don't come out that way because of the ghosting method. You also do a good job of not trying to correct your lines if they go down wrong.
Rotated Boxes seem fine, you keep your corners together.
Organic Perspective has a few boxes that don't quite get perspective right, but that's fine, because we work on that in the 250 box challenge. Remember not to draw over your lines, if you get a bad line, you'll just have to work with it. I don't see you do that too much, though.
That's it! Sorry if I typed too much, looking back, I feel like I may have been really nit-picky. I think you're good to continue to the 250 box challenge, have fun!
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge!
Omg, thank you! No it's great that you're nit picking. i really appreciate the feedback and you're really good at giving feedbacks. Good luck with yours and thanks again. :)
No problem!
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