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9:53 AM, Friday December 9th 2022
You have a fraying at the beginning of the lines, make sure you're carefully aligning your pen at the start. The fraying at the end will get better with practice
Keep practising your ghosted lines and make sure you're drawing from your shoulder and ghosting.
Practice your ellipses, again with ghosting. Make sure you're only going around twice. Draw from your shoulder and remember, confident, flowing lines before accuracy. Your lines were very wobbly with the ellipses in the ghosted planes.
Try hatching your boxes so it's more understandable.
For rough perspective I'm not sure if you were trying to make the lines thicker or fix them, if it's the former then practice superimposed lines with ghosting more, if it's the latter then don't do that. Keep the line even if it's bad no matter how bad you wanna fix it.
The only other problem is the lines not meeting at the vanishing point but the 250 box challenge is for that.
For organic boxes the perspective is the issue but again the 250 box challenge is for that
Next Steps:
250 box challenge
3:39 PM, Sunday December 11th 2022
Hello, I would like to follow up this critique, because I do think that it's good, just one thing it missed.
For the ghosted planes, your shapes should not only be connected by opposite corners, but bifurcated on both sides as well. You can see this in the example homework for the ghosted planes, it looks like a plus shape put on top of the X that the connected-corner lines make. For future warm-ups, don't forget to do these, it'll give to more practice for odd scenarios that appear in the future. Along with that, I'd recommend varying the quadrilaterals more. In your submission, a lot of your quads are rectangular-ish. Make some weird trapezoids or kite shapes when you come back to ghosted planes in the future, it'll test you in more odd scenarios.
7:37 PM, Sunday December 11th 2022
Thank you for the critique, I appreciate it. I will keep in mind your advice for future warm-ups.
7:34 PM, Sunday December 11th 2022
Thank you for the critique, I appreciate it. I will keep in mind your advice for future warm-ups.
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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.