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4:17 PM, Saturday May 16th 2020
Hi! I’ll be looking through this~
Starting off, the lines section looks good, though it could definitely be better. The main issue I notice is that of (a lack of) confidence. As I’m sure you’ll remember from the instructions, it’s far more important for our lines to be confident, than accurate. That is to say, it’s perfectly fine for a line to miss the guideline, miss the end point, or overshoot past the end point, so long as it’s smooth, and confident. This extends to our mistakes, too. Rather than correct them (redo a line, or even extend it if it stops short), it’s far wiser to just leave it as-is. By the way, see if you can place start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes. Trying to do two things at once is usually a great way to do neither, so, whenever you can, see if you can split things up into manageable chunks.
Moving on to the ellipse section, the first thing that jumps out at me is that you don’t always go around your ellipses 2 full times- it’s important to. Here, too, as you’ve likely guessed already, it’s more important for our ellipses to be smooth, and rounded, than it is for them to fit within the confines of their frames. Thankfully, outside of that, these exercises look good.
The box section starts off strong! The convergences in the rough perspective exercise are quite good. The automatic reinforcing (correcting an incorrect line) is a little jarring, though. Remember that that’s discouraged. The rotated boxes exercise is fairly solid. It’s a little bit stretched, and the rotation is a little minimal, but you’ve been good about keeping your boxes snug, and, most importantly, you’ve seen it through to the end. Finally, the organic perspective exercise looks great, though remember that a box that’s overlapping another shouldn’t hide its lines. Also, since dramatic foreshortening implies an object that’s really close to us, or one of a massive scale, we try not to include it in this exercise. You’ll have plenty of time to get accustomed to foreshortening in your next step, however- the 250 Box Challenge.
Next Steps:
I’ll be marking this lesson as complete, so feel free to move on to it. Do be mindful of the confidence of your lines, though- it’s important.
By the way, this lesson being marked as complete, means that you have a solid understanding of the concepts being taught here- enough to be able to teach it to others. If you find the time, considering looking at other people’s submissions, and critiquing them- it’s a great way to solidify your understanding of it. One of the members of our discord server made a handy cheat sheet for it, too. Find it here: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ
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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.