Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
8:14 AM, Monday January 11th 2021
Hello, just finished lesson 1, I'd appreciate the feedback. Thank you in advance!
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6:20 PM, Wednesday January 20th 2021
Lines
They are generally good and they improve over the set, but there are still by the end of it some wobbly lines. Keep in mind that drawing confident lines is more important than drawing them accurately, so always focus on confidence over accuracy.
I also see a little bit of fraying of your lines when you go over them specifically in superimposed lines, it was your first exercise though but try to be mindful of starting in the same point everytime. Fraying at the is normal, but there you should really try to start in the same spot.
Ellipses
Here as well mainly a good job. Only issue is that some ellipses are a bit wobbly. Don't forget to prioritize confidence over accuracy on ellipses too.
On the funnels some of your elipses stop touching the arcs at the end of the funnels, so try and focus on not leaving space between the arc and ellipse.
Boxes
On boxes your lines are getting a little less confident. Approach lines as you did on the previous exercises. It doesn't matter if they're in a box or in a plane, the approach is the same.
On the rotated boxes keep in mind that the vanishing point changes when you rotate the boxes. It looks like a couple of your boxes on the horizontal axis aren't actually rotating. Maybe review this: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating.
You're also having a little bit of trouble maintaining height lines vertical and horizontal lines parallel to the horizon. It's hard, but keep trying to do your best on it. Don't forget you can replace dots before drawing a line if you feel that the previous dot was misplaced.
On organic perspective the main issue is that you're repeating lines. Don't forget that no matter how off a line is, you shouldn't repeat it. Repeating it will only make the drawing messier, so just draw the line once and move on.
Perspective on the boxes has issues, but you'll work on it on the box challenge, so nothing to worry about.
Overall though nice job, keep it up and good luck with the box challenge!
Next Steps:
First off, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the box challenge.
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.
-Doing critiques is a good way of learning and solidifying concepts. Critiquing can help expose your own gaps in knowledge and is great review.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high. If you do some critiques, those would be less critiques myself and others have to do before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster. The new system ordering submissions also makes that the more agrees your critiques have the higher you'll be placed in the queue of submissions, which will improve your chances of getting critiques faster as well.
It's totally optional of course, but me and the other people who are critiquing would appreciate it if you gave it a shot.
There's a really awesome community member named Elodin who critqued my lesson 1 and most of the credit for the critiquing framework I used goes to him. He made a pretty useful guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions here.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to I certainly felt that way and didn't start critiquing until a few months after I completed lesson 1, but once I started it helped a lot and since you've completed lesson 1 you should feel you aren't ready.
Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!
3:29 AM, Thursday January 21st 2021
Thank you! I'll keep it in mind.
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