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2:52 PM, Friday May 19th 2023
Hello and congratulations on completing lesson 1. I’m Ebni, and I will be critiquing your work.
Your superimposed lines look good. Smooth, confident lines with the fraying at only one end. The ghosted lines and planes exercises also look good. You’re focused on drawing smooth confident lines over accurate ones which is correct. Accuracy will come with practice.
On your table of ellipses, there’s a fair bit of wobble to them. It seems you’re slowing down to hit the targets rather than focus on drawing smooth curves. I notice improvement in this on your ghosted ellipses, though, and your funnels look really good. You did a good job keeping them aligned to the axis. Also good job in drawing through your ellipses in all of these exercises.
Onto boxes. Your plotted perspective looks alright. For the rough perspective there’s a fair bit of wobble to the lines. You’re likely slowing down to focus on accuracy. You should be focused on smooth, confident lines over accurate ones even as you use them to build up these more complicated shapes. You’re starting to experiment with line weight as well, which is good. It should be applied subtly with one stroke per line, applied using the ghosting method. Also in an exercise like this the line weight should be applied to the lines closest the viewer. Otherwise you are following your lines back to the horizon to check your work, which is good.
For the rotated boxes exercise, you did good for such a complicated challenge. You’re using the previous points to guide your positioning on the successive boxes. For the organic perspective, just the same comment as before. Your lines are wobbly/arcing as your focused on completing the box rather than on the individual lines that make it up. Remember to take your time and not rush. Carefully set up the points and draw the marks with confidence using the ghosting method.
I’m going to mark this exercise as complete. The 250 box challenge is next. Good luck.
Next Steps:
I’d recommend reviewing the principles of markmaking: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/3/markmaking before continuing. And be sure to revisit these exercises for warmups as you move forward.
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