Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:34 PM, Sunday July 31st 2022

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I'd just like to thank anyone who critiques this, and ask for suggestions of what to keep in mind before I start the 250 box challenge.

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6:58 PM, Monday August 1st 2022

Superimposed lines

  • There is arching in your lines. Make sure you are making a straight stroke, looking toward the end point

  • Try not to go beyond or stop short the the end point of the line

  • There some wobble in the curved lines but overall your lines are confident

Ghosted lines and ghosted planes

  • Majority are confident strokes, but some are slightly curved

  • You are hitting about half of the points, make sure to take your time ghosting and are confident in the line you are drawing

Ellipses in ghosted planes

  • Some ellipses are wobbly but generally they fit in the planes

Table of ellipses

  • You should only be drawing through the ellipses 2 times ideally and 3 times is okay

  • Take your time to do these - Ghost through the ellipses until you are confident

Funnels

  • Your ellipses here are very wobbly, you should be ghosting your ellipses

Rough perspective

  • When plotting the corners of your boxes, ghost while looking toward the vanishing point

  • Many of your lines are wobbly, ensure you are ghosting every line

Rotated boxes

  • You have done very well in rotating the boxes

  • You should have repeated some of your lines multiple times, you should only make one confident line after ghosting unless stated otherwise

  • It seems you have left out some of the edges on the top and bottom corner boxes

  • Uncomfortable outlined in the exercise how to add line weight if the lines become confusing

Organic perspective

  • The sense of perspective is well conveyed with different sized boxes

  • Towards the end it seems rushed as you have repeated some lines

  • There are some issues in the construction of your boxes but this will be addressed moving onto the 250 box challenge

Well done for completing the exercise

Next Steps:

You seemed to struggle with ellipses the most so moving forward complete:

  • 1 page of table of ellipses

  • 1 page of funnels

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:37 AM, Tuesday August 2nd 2022

Thanks so much!

Here are my revisions; these definitely aren't perfect, but hopefully there's some improvement?

https://imgur.com/a/jQzfmGV

8:13 AM, Tuesday August 2nd 2022

Thank you for completing the revisions. They look better, still some wobble but try incorporating some ellipse exercises in your warm up and they will improve with time. During the 250 box challenge I’d definitely join the Discord to post my first few pages and then every 10-15 boxes because there are many useful tips people could give you and useful images in the pins section. Also remember it’s hard and not to give up even if you do 1 or 2 a day that’s good enough. Good luck!

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