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9:12 PM, Friday March 5th 2021
Hey! I'm Dead Dino and I'm going to review your homework from lesson one.
Lines
Superimposed Lines
There's fraying on the farther end, but that's completely normal. Just keep practicing those as a warm up when you do the following challenges.
Ghosted Lines
These actually seem really good. They're straight , clean and confident, with a decent level of accuracy, and they all seem to have been plotted. Keep it up!
Ghosted Planes
Just like the ghosted lines, these seem straight and accurate enough.
Ellipses
Tables of Ellipses and Ellipses in Planes
They are confident mostly accurate, hitting every edge with only a few inaccuracies here and there. However, you seem to be going over the ellipses more times than recommended (remember, 2-3 times, 2 preferably).
Funnels
You seem to be properly respecting the minor axis, which is great and the point of the exercise. However, the sizes are a little funky. Their width in the major axis increases way too fast, making them look nearly circular, while the ellipse in the middle looks way too thin and nearly crushed. Try to make this incremental change in with a bit more subtle. And once again, watch out for the times you go over the ellipses (3 tops).
Boxes
Great job drawing through all the boxes!
Plotted Perspective
These look super good! Although some of the hatching lines seem a little rushed and wonky. Remember to use the same straight, confident lines you've been using so far.
Rough Perspective
Your lines in this exercise are quite wobbly. Keep drawing them as you've been doing it so far, specially as you did in the ghosted line exercise, straight and confidently. It may help to draw them a little faster, spending more time ghosting them than actually drawing them, and remember to always draw from your shoulder. Confidence > accuracy.
About perspective, it's normal not to get it perfect right now. You will practice this in the upcoming challenges. Just remember that since this exercise is in one point perspective, horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line. Also, when trying to draw the lines that converge towards the vanishing point, It may help to ghost a line that extends towards the vanishing point, even though you won't draw it all. This is just to help you place the initial point as a guide.
Rotated Boxes
These are pretty small, which may make it harder to draw from the shoulder. However, I understand this exercise is really hard, and you're not meant to get it perfect the first time around. It is actually pretty good. Even though the lines wobble a bit, the perspective and boxes look correct, and they'll only get better going forward.
Organic Perspective
These are pretty wobbly too, so take into account what I said in the rough perspective exercise. The perspective has its hits and misses, and it is bound to improve when you tackle 250 the box challenge. Sometimes the jumps in size are too wide, breaking a bit of the space illusion, but nothing too bad. Boxes will make a lot more sense moving forward.
Overall, I think you have a good foundation. The biggest issue I see is the wobbly lines when drawing boxes, so remember to apply the same methods you used when drawing regular lines to construct them. You'll get a lot of room for practicing this in the 250 Box Challenge, so good luck!
Next Steps:
Go do the 250 Box Challenge to work on those wobbly boxes! Warming up before each session by doing some ghosted lines, planes and superimposed lines may pay off.
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A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.