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12:40 PM, Sunday December 12th 2021
Hey Z, congratulations on finishing Lesson 1, glad to see another person join us in the course!
First of all, I want to say that no revisions are necessary. You have followed the instructions closely and have improved considerably, your work is admirable.
In regards to your lines, you have clearly had some difficulty in the start, the lines were consistently wobbly and occasionally the accuracy was off too. That is expected, line confidence is something people are still figuring out even when going into the 250 box challenge.
Your beginnings aside, there is a huge improvement in your Organic Perspective exercise. Something clearly clicked for you there in terms of line confidence, and I want you to keep that up and explore it, since your lines clearly have jumped to a new level.
Good job on the ellipses as well, they were quite a bit more accurate and confident in comparison to your straight lines, and it seems you have utilized the exercise to your improvement well.
I want you to note the Funnels exercise - note how your top-right and bottom-right corner ellipses are significantly more confident and accurate than the ones in the center. The quality of your ellipses is not much at fault here, the issue is the "environment" in which the ellipses exist - the boundaries are skewed, so the ellipses followed.
Just for experimentation, I encourage you during one of your warm-ups to use a cup/plate to draw the boundaries of the funnel and try this exercise again. You'll get a solid feel for what I mean here.
In the Rotated Boxes exercise you definitely could have gone more extreme with the perspective, some of the lines are practically parallel to others, but other than that - a wonderful job.
Last comment - while you rarely do this I am assuming you are aware of the issue, but I shall comment on this anyway:
Avoid fixing your lines by drawing over them, this is seen the most in the Rotated Boxes exercise and occasionally popping here and there where you drew boxes. Keeping it at one line makes it easier to learn from, doesn't highlight the mistake to the viewer, and makes your learning quicker by not trying to fix your lines and instead moving onto new ones.
Overall, wonderful work - you have followed the instructions properly, have done your best during the intentionally challenging exercises, and your line quality has improved considerably.
Remember to adhere to the 50% rule, use the exercises from this lesson during warm-ups and move on to the 250 box challenge!
Next Steps:
Take a moment to celebrate your achievement and move on to the 250 box challenge!
4:55 PM, Wednesday December 15th 2021
Hi Gekki, thank you so much for your in-depth and wonderful critique!
I definitely did have issues with line confidence, I have poor fine motor control and struggle quite a bit with consistent trajectory and accuracy. But like you said, I am happy that I'm seeing improvements in this regard!
I will definitely be trying out the funnel exercise with better boundaries, and seeing what that brings!
My rotated boxes could definitely have been less cautious, At the time I was a bit tentative that the rotation on the corner pieces would've been overly exaggerated, but I definitely could've pushed them more.
The drawing over lines is definitely an issue, however I wasn't trying to fix mistakes, but trying to add line weight to the non-drawn through edges and it not working out so well (I eventually gave up on doing so, because I was so inaccurate at following the original lines).
Thank you again for taking the time out to look at and make this thorough write up!
9:15 PM, Wednesday December 15th 2021
Ohh I see, that is on me - I forgot that Uncomfortable suggested adding line weight during these exercises and haven't double checked, so that is a mistake on my part.
During the 250 box challenge you will be encouraged to add line weight, and one way to gradually prepare yourself for that is using the Superimposed Lines exercise during your warm-ups, as well as doing your best throughout the challenge.
Thank you for clarifying!
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