Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:27 PM, Thursday March 19th 2020

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9:10 PM, Wednesday March 25th 2020
edited at 9:14 PM, Mar 25th 2020

Overall notes

  • Your pencil appears very wide, if it is not mechanical please sharpen it often. If it's really that wide, that could be an issue going forward, I urge you to go ahead and order the pens from Souq if you can.

  • If you must continue using pencil, do not erase anything, even if the line is wrong. Pretend it is in pen, there is a reason we do not erase (Lesson 0, Why Ink) With pencil it's important to keep your line weight equal for all box lines.

  • Do not go over a line a second time to correct it.

  • Please read the lessons and watch the videos - a number of my comments are covered there. Your homework should look similar to the examples for the layout and amount of work on the page (you have a lot of blank space), as well as the number of pages required.

  • Please be careful of photo quality, some are quite blurry and cant be evaluated very well.

Funnels - Missing, not submitted

Superimposed Lines Missing One Page, not much work on the page, and it should be a mix of small medium and long lines, with a few curved lines. You should place your pencil on the starting dot each time, you have a lot of fraying on the starting point. Straight lines are confident but arcing. Make sure to draw from your shoulder (Lesson 0) and intentionally arc in the opposite direction if it keeps happening to you.

Ghosted Lines Good amount of work on the page, but a lot of erasing. Not much wobble in lines, some arcing.

Ghosted Planes Not as much work on the page as there could be. A lot of erasing. Ghost each line carefully, you have a significant amount of overshoot. Dots can be smaller as you move on, so the line swallows them up. Keep enough space between planes so you can see each one separately.

Tables of Ellipses Pretty good overall - remember not to fit them into a space by flattening or distorting them in any way. They are just perfect circles tilted in space.

Ellipses in Planes Make sure to only go around 2 -3 times. Don't try to hit the edges as much (egg shapes or even boxy circles), a confident ellipse is more important.

Plotted Perspective Very difficult to comment. When drawing with a ruler please try to line up the corners with no overshoot, and the same with hatching. Erasing just muddies up the paper making it harder to evaluate. Should be 3 panels per page with the height of the horizon line different in each one.

Rough Perspective The front and back sides of the box should be horizontal and vertical. . Your dots should be really small at this point. Should be 3 panels per page with the height of the horizon line different in each one.

Rotated Boxes You have a LOT of extra lines and this is very hard to critique. smaller dots, and really work on over shoot by carefully ghosting. We arent expected to nail this - but make sure you understand how vanishing points move when you rotate boxes in space - rotate left, VP moves right.

Organic perspective Boxes get larger when they are closer, smaller when they are far away. Please see the lesson instruction page. Should be 3 panels per page with the height of the horizon line different in each one.

Edit: This is my first critique, so feel free to comment on my feedback

Next Steps:

I can't mark this as complete, missing pages or incomplete pages as noted.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 9:14 PM, Mar 25th 2020
9:51 PM, Wednesday March 25th 2020

Thanks for the review, also u have done a great job for ur first time imo but one thing that u are misunderstanding is that the smudging isnt caused by erasing its caused by my sweat

1:05 PM, Thursday March 26th 2020

Hi. again thx for the review and i added the missing pages

8:14 PM, Thursday March 26th 2020

Thanks for adding the missing pages :)

The main issue I see on the funnels is aligning the ellipses - in other words, how straight they are to the + created by the major and minor axes, as some of yours are tilted.

Next Steps:

Keep the suggestions in mind when you rotate through these as warmups (10-15 mins a day) - and HAVE FUN with the 250 Box Challenge!

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12:29 AM, Friday March 27th 2020

Oh thx for the advice

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8:13 AM, Tuesday March 31st 2020

as the other user said please get the recomended pen or if you are stuck in quarantine like me use a ballpoint.

your lines and elipses are ok but try to align the degree of them.

Next Steps:

I recommend the 250 boxes challenge

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10:26 AM, Friday April 3rd 2020

dont think that i will get any sort of accuracy with a ballpoint,anyways i was planning on redoing them so its all good :)

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