Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
10:41 AM, Saturday May 30th 2020
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5:21 PM, Saturday May 30th 2020
Hi Olivia!
Great job on completing this assignment, it's not easy but drawing daily will improve your skills quickly if you stick with it.
Your line quality on your ellipeses is a bit wobbly, but that will come with practice, but make sure that when you practice that you are drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist becuase that can cause an uneven wobblying line sometimes.
On your rough perspective, you have done a good job of guessing your vanishing point, but i did notice on one of the exercises that you estimated your vanishing points in a way that each box had it's own indiviual vanishing point. I did this too on one of mine! It looks like your practice paid off because the others look great
The exercise with the boxes in a sphere was really challenging and you've done a great job tackling it. I would occasionally try to redraw it every now and agian as a warm up and over time you will gain a better ability at drawing this exercise
Lastly on the rotated boxes exercise, there are a few spots where you have tried to give a line more weight and you went too heavy and thick. I'm sure these are just the errors you made as you practice, just like playing incorrect notes as you learn scales on an instrument. There were also a few times you made errors in your line placement and tried to redraw it. I've gotten critiqued for doing this myself by other students so my suggestion to you is to just leave the line as it is when you do make an error and learn from it when you extend out your lines when you realize how far off you were
Mistakes are great learning experiences and I've seen a few places where they have happened so just be aware of this when you go on to the 250 box challenge
Next Steps:
Next steps:
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Practice ellipses as a warm up a the begining of all of your drawing sessions. I also do another page to warm up and just redo one of the exercises to maintain and expand your skills.
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Start on the 250 box challenge, but please do the warmups I suggested each time you sit down to begin drawing.
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Time how long it takes you to complete each box, and from there make a realistic goal of how many boxes you want to do at at time and a goal of when you would like to be done with all of them. This will help you from getting frustrated or burning out.
6:31 PM, Saturday May 30th 2020
Hi Molly!
The thing about the ellipses is particularly on point because, as I was doing it, I ghosted them using my shoulder but I was involuntary locking my shoulder when tracing and ended doing most of them with the wrist or the elbow. I need to work on it and I'll do it as warm-up as you suggested.
As for the others exercices, I'm glad they show an improvement. I'll do them from time to time to get better.
Thank you very much for your review and your advices!
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