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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

3:10 PM, Monday September 28th 2020

1. Lines, Ellipses and Boxes - Google Drive

1. Lines, Ellipses and Boxes - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Q0m7AhQ0RKOrr7Ubmm1jbahqijkQdTFX

Hello there,

My name is Magna and this is my first time submitting (obviously, it's Lesson 1).

I finished these some time ago, but subconsciously I was a tad bit afraid of submitting my stuff. For me everything I made looks like a mess, but Uncomfortable mentioned in all his lesson videos that feedback is important so here we go.

PS: Getting a hang of drawing from the shoulder has been a struggle, I can see it in my lines. I've also found that drawing on paper (not the sketchbook) is less restraining.

Thank you!

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7:05 PM, Tuesday September 29th 2020

Lines

Superimposed Lines: All lines have a tight originating bundle that only frays at the end. I like that you made a lot of long lines.

Ghosted Lines: Minimal wobbles, but a lot of them are arcing. I still have difficulty distinguishing between when I am drawing from the elbow and shoulder when lines are at this medium length. My understanding is arcing tends to occur more often when drawing from the elbow instead of the shoulder. I also wonder how quickly you are drawing your lines given how the weight of the ink reduces pretty dramatically; after watching a few videos of people I discoered I was drawing my lines a little too fast as a substitution for confidence.

Ghosted Planes: Nice big planes of varying angles. When I did this I used ghosting circles for the vertical and horizontal lines across the planes as well as the corners.

Ellipses

Ellipse tables: Nice job staying within the bounds. I would suggest a little more variety in degree and minor axis orientation, a lot of them are fairly similar circles.

Ghosted planes with elipses: These are all pretty nice, keeping yrou elipses enscribed within the planes. Ellipses are drawn confidently and 2-3x as recommended.

Funnels: Ellipses are generally split symetrically, and are, with a few exceptions, kept within the bounds of the funnel.

Boxes

Plotted Perspective: Rear corner line looks vertical in your boxes except for the top right two in the lowest panel, nice job.

Rough Perspective: Vertical lines are perpendicular to horizon and horizontal lines are parallel, nice job. Some wobbles present on the first page that appear to smooth at on the second page. Since you don't overshoot or undershoot on any of your lines, this may be due to focusing too much on hitting your points and sacrificing line confidence.

Rotated boxes: 25 boxes, you completed it! (I only did 21, haha). Boxes could have been a little closer to each other, which helps with drawing adjacent boxes since I believe adjacent lines are parallel. Boxes definately need to be rotated more, there is little difference in rotation between your 2nd and 3rd tier boxes in a lot of cases - but I believe this is a common mistake so no biggie.

Organic Perspectives: You really hit this one out of the park. Distant boxes are have minimal line weight (teach me!), lines are confident, perspective is good, boxes are incrementally bigger/smaller and clearly flow along your line and emphasis added appropriately to overlapping lines. I don't know how strictly we are supposed to do 3 panels per page, but given the overall quality and quantity of this exercise I think you follow the spirit of the exercise.

Overall this is a very nice job, you clearly took your time and were thoughtful with all exercises.

Next Steps:

250 box challenge.

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5:57 PM, Wednesday September 30th 2020

Hello Hootyhoo,

Thank you for taking the time to look over my homework and critique it :3

The speed thing is definitely on point, I tend to be speedy Gonzalez in general so that's a thing to improve overall and just take it slower + put more confidence in my lines.

I do tend to default to drawing from the elbow when I get into the groove of things. I'm trying to make a conscious effort to switch to the shoulder.

Regarding the rotated boxes, that was soooo hard. I want to do it again though xD

And about the line weight for the organic perspective homework, I think I cheated a bit here. While I tried to apply more pressure on the front boxes and less on the ones in the back, for some of them I applied a few superimposed lines.

Finally, thank you again and I hope you have a great week!

9:48 PM, Wednesday September 30th 2020

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