Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

8:57 AM, Thursday April 18th 2024

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Thank you so much for your time and feedback. I look forward to receiving and applying your advice.

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10:56 AM, Thursday April 18th 2024

Happy to have you here! Let’s take this one exercise at a time, then!

Starting off, your superimposed lines are looking great. You’ve got some very ambitious lines here, and I’m happy to see how lightheartedly you’ve approached them! Your marks are smooth, properly lined up on the left, and of a consist trajectory. Your ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, too, and I’m happy to see that you’ve filled your pages with them. The start/end points in the ghosted lines exercise are a little big, but you’ve spotted this and improved it by the ghosted planes exercise, which is good. Remember, a perfect line is meant to swallow them both.

Onto the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks great. You’ve got a good variety of ellipses here (referring to their degrees/angles), and they’re all smooth and nicely rounded. Regarding their rotations, you’ll sometimes stop short of 2, so be mindful of that. Recall that the recommendation is 2-3 times, always. It’s important, especially, to agree on a number beforehand, rather than adjust the ellipse according to how it’s coming out (students tend to lean towards more rotations if the notice the ellipse has issues, and fewer if not). The ellipses in planes do a decent job of maintaining that same level of quality, despite their more complicated frames, though they will occasionally deform in an effort to fill as much of the plane as possible, so be mindful of that. As for the funnels, they could definitely benefit from being a little bigger – small marks are much harder from the shoulder! Aside from that, however, they’re confident, snug, and properly cut in half by their axes, so keep up the good work.

The plotted perspective boxes could also benefit from being drawn a little bigger, though you’ve gotten all you should from this exercise, so no stress in that regard. It’s just helpful to draw big to give your brain some room to think. (I’m guessing the rough perspective exercise pages are out of order? Either that or you started off strong, and steadily got worse, ahah.) Looking at what I assume is the last frame of your rough perspective exercise, your convergences are on-point, and your linework confident. This last I was particularly worried about, because I noticed some automatic reinforcing in your previous page, but it seems like you’ve also spotted thar yourself, and amended it. I definitely appreciate the critical eye with which you’ll observe each page, before moving on to the next one – keep that up! The rotated boxes exercise is well done. It’s big, its boxes are snug, and they make a decent attempt at rotating. They don’t always do so as well as we’d like, but that’s no issue – in this exercise we’re more interested in seeing if the student sees things to the end, to their best ability, than succeed. I appreciate your patience in applying the lineweight/hatching too, btw! Finally, the organic perspective exercise is well done. Your compositions here are interesting, and flow well as a result of the construction, size, and foreshortening of your boxes. Great work.

Next Steps:

I’m marking this lesson as complete, and sending you off to the box challenge. Best of luck!

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1:54 AM, Sunday April 21st 2024

Thank you so much for your thorough review of my work. I truly appreciate your feedback and recommendations and will be sure to apply them to the 250 box challenge. Thanks again, friend.

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