Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
5:10 PM, Monday March 21st 2022
Hello! I would love to get feedback from you on this first submission!
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6:42 PM, Monday March 21st 2022
Good job on completing lesson 1.
Now, onto the critque:
Lines: Your lines are wobbly in the ghosted lines exercise, but this seems to improve as you go onto the ghosted planes. Just make sure to concentrate on using your shoulder pivot, some of your lines are still shkay in the boxes section. I'd like you to focus on keeping your lines as straight as possible without any curvature. Whatever direction your lines curve at, just make sure to draw your lines arched slightly in the opposite direction. Good work tho.
Ellipses: Some of your ellipses are wobbly, but that's ok, you will get better with more practice. Make sure to keep your ellipses and closely packed together as possible, and make sure to draw a variety of ellispes and different orientations. Solid work in the funnels exercise
Boxes: In the rough persepctive exercise, I see that your lines start getting more wobbly than the previous exercises. Also, make sure that the vertical and horizital axis lines are actually vertical and horizontal, not at an angle. But, your convergenses are solid, so good job. In the rotated boxes exercise, your drawing is too small - next time I'd like you to draw it larger that fills up thje page more (since the outermost boxes are barely visible at the moment, and keeping the drawing small hinders your linework as well). Please make sure to re-do this exercise. You did a good job in the organic perspective exercise, I like how your boxes get bigger/smaller, and that they are overlapping.
Good work, and good luck for 250 box challenge
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5:50 PM, Wednesday March 23rd 2022
Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback! I will definitely redo the rotated boxes exercise :)
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