Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

3:56 PM, Friday May 29th 2020

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Hi, please don't hold anything back. I would really appreciate as honest feedback as possible. Thanks :)

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4:34 PM, Friday May 29th 2020

Hey, Pestilence. Good job on finishing this lesson.

Just took a look at your work and here's what I have to say.

Your superimposed lines are good, but there are somewhat wobbly. Remember to draw them in a swift motion. Don't try to focus too much on the lines during the drawing moment.

Your ghosted lines and planes are much better in this aspect.

On your table of ellipses exercise, although the ellipses are drawn smoothly, they could have definitely been better packed together. On the planes in ellipses some of them are kind of floating. Remember that each ellipse should touch all four edges of the planes.

Moving to your boxes exercise, your rough perspective boxes are mostly aligned (except in a few cases, specially the back plane) with the horizon and the perspective is decent. You did, however, forget to draw the boxes completely. You should draw the inner lines as well.

On your rotated boxes, some of them are rotating, but if you kept everything closer together as in the example homework, you could have achieved a better end result.

Your organic perspective is good, but you could have draw more boxes in each composition and expressed a smooth transition from the smaller to the larger boxes. Some don't have a correct perspective, but you will have time to work on that during the boxes challenge. You could have also overlapped more boxes and increased the line weight of the overlapping lines, in order to highlight they are in front.

Overall you did well in this lesson, but there are a few aspects you need to get better.

Next Steps:

I'm gonna request one more page of the rough perspective exercise. I'm asking you to do one more page, not because yours is particularly bad, but because you need to focus on fully drawing your boxes, as this is what will be asked of you during the boxes challenge.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
4:34 PM, Saturday May 30th 2020

Hi, your feedback was very helpful. Here is the work you requested me to do over: http://imgur.com/gallery/P1YIYMv

4:50 PM, Saturday May 30th 2020

Hi again, Pestilence.

These definitely closer to what is asked of you. My main concern is that you often went over the same lines in your boxes. I know it's very tempting to draw the lines again in order to correct a misplaced one, but in fact, the badly placed line will always be there anyway. Trying to hide your mistakes like this goes against one of the purposes of using ink, which is to plan your lines very well and draw them when you feel they will in the right position. Remember to plot your lines with dots, ghost well and draw with confidence. Many times the lines won't be perfect, but accept your mistakes and do better next time.

You can move on to the 250 boxes challenge.

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5:15 PM, Saturday May 30th 2020

okay, thanks a lot, my intention by drawing those lines was so i could see the front side of my boxes more clearly. I found this exercise very difficult in the beginning and thought maybe this would help me solve it easier. But as always i will hold on to your advice and hopefully improve as i keep working my way through this course.

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4:31 PM, Friday May 29th 2020

It seems that you still have some "course correction" holding youur progress a back a little, but it's expected from a beginner. After all, your ghosted lines show less wobbling than your imposing lines. Good effort on ellipses - they are confident and I see you're trying to stay in the bounds, but the shape of your ellipses needs some training as well as how they touch the corners - make sure to do them as warmups later. Most of your ellipses in planes don't touch all the four corners - you'll need to work on that, I suggest doing one more page of them. You have a problem with funnels - they aren't aligned to the minor axis. I suggest re-reading about it in the exercise and giving one more page of funnels a shot. Good job keeping them snuggly though! Rough perspective looks fine but you sometimes struggle to keep your horizontal lines aligned - keep an eye on it.

Next Steps:

  1. One more page of ellipses in planes

  2. One more page of funnels

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
5:43 PM, Saturday May 30th 2020

Hi there! Thanks a lot for your feedback. I have done those homework exercises you requested http://imgur.com/gallery/HAEfHeN

8:45 AM, Sunday May 31st 2020

Great work! Your funnels are much better (but still have some problems, now mainly with keeping them in bounds) and ellipses and planes are definitely moving in the right direction now. I see no problems for you to proceed to 250 box challenge and eventually to lesson 2. Make sure to continue working on your ellipses in planes in your warmup routine!

Next Steps:

250 box challenge

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11:06 AM, Sunday May 31st 2020

Alright, thanks again for your feedback.

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5:09 PM, Friday May 29th 2020

Hi Pestilence,

You have really solid work on the superimposed lines. They maintain a strong trajectory and show confidence. A couple lines fray at the end, but it's okay for this lesson.

Your ghosted lines are pretty good as well. There are not a lot of under or overshoots. Just make sure to keep an eye out for when you are ghosting your lines and putting that pen on paper. :)

Regarding your table of ellipses, most of the time they fit into the table, but some of them end up not touching the sides. When you are drawing ellipses, you can also ghost them before you put the pen down. This applies for the funnels page, where your ellipses mostly fit in-between the arc lines, but they don't touch each other as much.

For your ghosted planes, they are also very solid. The ellipses in planes come out with strength and confidence. Keep in mind you are also trying to have the ellipses touch all four sides of the ghosted planes.

Your plotted and rough perspective needs to have the form drawn through. Sometimes we believe we know what we need to do, but these are one of the few times when we should re-read instructions carefully. You can read starting from this section for plotted, and this for rough perspective. The red lines seems to be draws past the horizontal line, which Uncomfortable states to draw them up to that point, and not towards the vanishing point. .

Rotated boxes are close and compact enough to see the overall figure. There is a common issue where the boxes are not rotating. . This homework is pretty difficult, so I will say it's alright for now.

For your organic perspective homework, there is quite a bit of space between the boxes you draw. Some of them are moving away from the viewer, while others have subtle movement, such as this homework here on the far right where it does not seem to rotate away from the viewer at first, but eventually does. Just make sure when you are creating 3D space, add more boxes so that viewers do not have to do guesswork.

Next Steps:

I will recommend you do some rough, plotted, and organic perspective homeworks as warm-up exercises. This should take no more than 10 or 20 minutes per day. You can move on to the 250 boxes challenge.

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