Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
4:30 PM, Thursday January 14th 2021
Thanks for the critique :)
Hello and congrats on completing lesson one. I'll be taking a look at your submission today. Starting with your superimposed lines these are off to a fine start. You are keeping a clearly defined starting point with all of your wavering at the opposite end. Your ghosted lines and planes turned out well. You are using the ghosting method to good effect to get confident linework with a pretty decent deal of accuracy that will get better and better with practice.
Your tables of ellipses are coming along pretty good. You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes and I can already see improvements from the first to second page. This is carried over nicely into your ellipses in planes. It's great that you aren't overly concerned with accuracy and are instead focused on getting smooth ellipse shapes. Although accuracy is our end goal it can't really be forced and tends to come with mileage and consistent practice more than anything else. Your ellipses in funnels are looking fine. I'm not seeing any real issues here. Your ellipses are off to a great start but there's still room for improvement when it comes to accuracy so keep practicing these during your warmups.
The plotted perspective looks great, nothing to mention here. Your rough perspectives turned out quite well. It's great that you are keeping up with the confident linework on these. You are also doing a good job extending the lines back on your boxes to check your work. As you can see some of your perspective estimations were quite off but that will become more intuitive with practice. Nice work.
The rotated box exercise turned out decently. I like that you drew this nice and big as that really helps when dealing with complex spatial problems. You did a good job drawing through your boxes and keeping your gaps narrow and consistent. You're not quite nailing all of your rotations and you sort of gave up on the corners which is fine given the difficulty of this exercise. This is a great one to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. Your organic perspective exercises are a bit of a mixed bag. You seem to be getting comfortable using the ghosting method and drawing from your shoulder for confident linework which is good. On the other hand, your box constructions could definitely use some work so the 250 box challenge will be a great next step for you.
Overall this was a really well done submission that showed a nice amount of growth. I think your line confidence and ellipses are coming along quite good. You are understanding most of concepts these lessons are trying to convey very well. I'm going to mark this as complete and good luck with the 250 box challenge. Keep up the good work!
Next Steps:
The 250 Box Challenge
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