Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
7:57 AM, Tuesday December 8th 2020
Hey Everyone !!! Here my exercises for Lesson 1. Can't wait to hear from you
This website uses cookies. You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.
2 users agree
3:40 PM, Sunday January 10th 2021
Lines
Super Imposed Lines: Good, lines are smooth and confident. But, some are fraying at both ends, be careful where you place your pen at the begining of the stroke.
Ghosted Lines: Good. I can see you understand the exercise. A couple of wobbles but this will improve with practice.
Ghosted Planes: Good job.
Ellipses
Tables of Ellipses: Very good! You've drawn through each ellipse 2-3 times and they look pretty confident. Again, accuracy will improve with practice.
Ellipses in Planes: Very good, a couple have been drawn through too many times but nice work overall.
Ellipses in Funnels: Great! Your axis are splitting the ellipses evenly in half, well done.
Boxes
Plotted Perspective: Good work.
Rough Perspective: A couple of nitpicks here. There is a fram where you've extended your error checking lines from the front points of your boxes directly to the vanishing point, instead of following the edge of the box you drew. This is only one frame so I'm assuming you realized your mistake and drew the rest as per the instructions. You have a few repeating lines as well, no matter how off a line is, a student should never repeat it, they should keep the line as it if were correct and move on. There is the occasional missing back edge on your boxes in this exercise too, try to remember to draw through them all.
Rotated Boxes: Really good effort here! Your boxes are rotating nicely, and you've drawn though them all. You have forgotten the las four "corner boxes though" go check out the sample homework for this exercise too see what I mean. https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/5f4fef59.jpg
Organic Perspective: Good use of scale to create depth, well done. Remember to draw the whole box, even where they overlap though. Same comment about repeating your lines as above. Remember to ghost your lines to help you draw them accurately.
Next Steps:
Congratulations on completing lesson one!
Move onto the 250 box challenge.
Remember to use the lesson one exercises for your warmups.
8:33 AM, Sunday April 11th 2021
Thanks my friend for your help !!! I appreciated your comments and I will work on any advice you gave to me. This is my first experience with this kind of courses and it's great to have a community that help each other. Wish you all the best
Fabio
The recommendation below is an advertisement. Most of the links here are part of Amazon's affiliate program (unless otherwise stated), which helps support this website. It's also more than that - it's a hand-picked recommendation of something I've used myself. If you're interested, here is a full list.
Drawabox-Tested Fineliners (Pack of 10, $17.50 USD)
Let's be real here for a second: fineliners can get pricey. It varies from brand to brand, store to store, and country to country, but good fineliners like the Staedtler Pigment Liner (my personal brand favourite) can cost an arm and a leg. I remember finding them being sold individually at a Michael's for $4-$5 each. That's highway robbery right there.
Now, we're not a big company ourselves or anything, but we have been in a position to periodically import large batches of pens that we've sourced ourselves - using the wholesale route to keep costs down, and then to split the savings between getting pens to you for cheaper, and setting some aside to one day produce our own.
These pens are each hand-tested (on a little card we include in the package) to avoid sending out any duds (another problem with pens sold in stores). We also checked out a handful of different options before settling on this supplier - mainly looking for pens that were as close to the Staedtler Pigment Liner. If I'm being honest, I think these might even perform a little better, at least for our use case in this course.
We've also tested their longevity. We've found that if we're reasonably gentle with them, we can get through all of Lesson 1, and halfway through the box challenge. We actually had ScyllaStew test them while recording realtime videos of her working through the lesson work, which you can check out here, along with a variety of reviews of other brands.
Now, I will say this - we're only really in a position to make this an attractive offer for those in the continental United States (where we can offer shipping for free). We do ship internationally, but between the shipping prices and shipping times, it's probably not the best offer you can find - though this may depend. We also straight up can't ship to the UK, thanks to some fairly new restrictions they've put into place relating to their Brexit transition. I know that's a bummer - I'm Canadian myself - but hopefully one day we can expand things more meaningfully to the rest of the world.