Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

1:11 PM, Monday September 11th 2023

Lesson 1 - Google Drive

Lesson 1 - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19zOHtXEaUu0z5vfNrc9oYPCFSyjdeYxv?usp=drive_link

Hello!

Just completed lesson one. Thanks in advance for taking time to give me some feedback. I'm really grateful for it.

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11:51 AM, Wednesday September 13th 2023

Hi Sharka and congrats on finishing lesson 1!

I'm Miu and i'll do my best at giving a community critique. If you feel like my critique is lacking/unfair, feel free to head over to discord and ask for someone else to look over it as well.

Lines

The "Superimposed Lines" look great, all have a well defined starting point and only fray on the other end. With the longer lines, there is some waving noticable, but it seems like you alredy improved on the second page a lot and your lines fray less.

On your "Ghosted Lines" you produced awesome and confident lines. A couple of lines show some slight arching, so that's something to keep in mind, when doing this exercise in the future, but overall you did really well, and even managed to hit most of the dots.

For the "Ghosted Planes" you contiued with your confident lines. The occadional wavy line sneaks its way into the planes, and a couple seem like you tried to correct the path of you line which leads to a little wobble at the end. Nothing to worry about, but keep in mind, that we want to prioritize confidence over accuracy right now.

Elipses

Your confidence carries over into the "Table Of Ellipses". Your ellipses are followed trough twice, while aiming to keep them within the borders and slightly touching each other. You also experimented with a wide range of sizes and tilts, without sacrificing your confidence and follow-through.

Same for the "Ellipses in Planes" your confidence shines and most of your ellipses are super smooth, while also touching the borders of the planes. Nice!

The "Funnels" are really solid as well. All ellipses are smooth, touch each other and the funnel edges. In the middle funnel (with 6 ellipses total) the ones on the right seem to tilt a little off the minor axis. For future warm-ups you might want to experiment a little more with the increase of width the further out from the center the ellipses are, but that's just a note.

Boxes

"Plotted Perspective" looks great with clean hatching.

In the "Rough Perspective" exercise your line confidence seems a little lessened, probably because it's a really intimidating and hard exercise, where everyone wants to connect the dots as best as they can, while sacrificing confidence. For the majority of the boxes you keept in mind, that the horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon and the vertical lines perpendicular to that. On the first page the rightmost box in the last third is really wonky, which seems to be a result of a sloppy placed dots. Nothing too dramatic, just keep this in mind, when you do this exercise as a warm-up in the future.

Now for the "Rotated Boxes", i think you did a great job rotating the boxes, actually you rotated them quiet extreme, especially in the upper left quadrant. You kept the distance between the boxes consistent, which helped with the rotation. I see some wobbly lines, so try not to get baited by the dots into accuracy over confidence, but overall sold job, on this though exercise!

And finally "Organic Perspective". Overall nice range of sizes and orientation that make the overarching perspective believable. You even went the extra mile and drew through some of them. But here as well, you fall back to some wobbly lines. And on the second page it looks like you didn't put any dots down to mark the corners of your boxes first (discrad this critisism if you did place some and i'm just not seeing them). The perspective on the individual boxes is kinda hit or miss, but don't worry to much about this, you have a long 250 boxes ahead of you, where your perspective is going to improve anyway.

All in all, you did a really good job with these exercises. Try to focus on confident lines instead of accuracy especially with intimidating tasks, but you have proven that you can draw confident lines already, so i'm not too worried about this.

Good luck on the 250 box challenge and keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

The 250 Box Challenge

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6:33 AM, Thursday September 14th 2023

Thank'a a lot for the critique! It was really helpful and I'll try to keep the points mentioned in mind.

Hope you have a great day :)

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