Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

5:08 AM, Friday May 22nd 2020

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Messed up on a few of them though.

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9:00 PM, Friday May 22nd 2020

Hey, Andopy01. Good job going through the first lesson. I took a look at your work and there are a few things that you should work on improving.

Lines

Your superimposed lines are packed tightly together, which is a good sign, but there's some fraying at both ends, meaning you probably didn't take the time to correctly place the pen on the starting point before drawing the line. Other than that, they seem very straight, with just a few ones arching.

The ghosted lines exercise show some signs of wobbling. I suppose that, in this one, in order to try to hit both of the dots, you slowed your speed, sacrificing the smoothness of the line.

Your ghosted planes also seem overall good. A few of them have some arching lines. remember to draw with a motion from the shoulder in order to keep the lines as straight as possible.

Ellipses

Your ellipses here look good and smooth. In some cases you could have done a better job keeping them touching (or at least closer) the border lines. This is more evident on your second page, around the right center ones. Remember that when drawing ellipses within a certain bound it's in order to create an ellipse with a concrete goal.

Your ellipses in planes also look good and smooth.

It seems that the funnels exercise was a challenge to you. While you did a very decent job keeping the ellipses aligned withe the minor axis (center line), there is some evident wobbling on a few of them. Remember than at this point the goal is to draw smooth and confident lines.

Boxes

One the rough perspective exercise, you managed to do a good job keeping the horizontal lines parallel to the horizon and the vertical ones perpendicular to it. Most of your perspective lines are also converging towards the vanishing point, which is positive. The negative aspect is that your line work here doesn't seem to good. There are some noticeable wobbling lines and you draw over the same line in many occasions. You should avoid doing this. This is even more evident on your rotated boxes and, in this case, it leaves your work very messy. Some of your boxes here are not quite rotated and seem to share the same vanishing point.

On the last exercise (organic perspective) you did a good job drawing the flow from farther away (smaller) to closer (larger) boxes, although you could have exaggerated this by drawing even larger boxes. Your perspective seems decent in most of the boxes, but it's not correct in some of them. Your also did a good job trying to overlap some of the boxes and didn't forget to draw through them. Good job here. Your lines work, again, is very sloppy here and in some cases you didn't even draw the edge of a box completely with one lines. You used 3 lines to do what you should have done with just one.

Next Steps:

I marked the lesson as complete, but I think you should pay attention to your habit of drawing over the same lines. Remember that you should prepare your lines with dots, ghost them and then commit to the ghosting method by drawing one swift and smooth line for each odge of the boxes.

Go ahead to the 250 boxes challenge. read well the instructions and good luck.

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3:35 AM, Saturday May 23rd 2020

Thank you so much for the critique! I really appreciate it! I'll work on my habit of drawing over the same lines since I'm used to drawing in pencils. Overall, I'll do my best on the boxes challenge and thanks again!

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