Hi Fracedi,
2 filled pages of Superimposed lines - Many of your lines here appear to have multiple starting points. Please take the time to align your pen tip to the starting point before you draw any line. It is difficult to tell exactly where the starting point is for your superimposed lines. This seems to be a problem with your curved lines. Your straight lines are looking good for the most part.
1 filled page of Ghosted lines - These are coming along quite nicely. I see a little bit of wobble in your lines, but others seem nice and smooth.
2 filled pages of Ghosted planes - I am seeing a lot more wobble in your lines here. You may want to take more time to ghost your lines before you draw them.
2 filled pages of Tables of ellipses - Good stuff here. They are looking good. Taking more time to ghost before you draw an ellipse will help you in the long run.
2 filled pages of Ellipses in planes - Most of your ellipses are really good. The other ones are a bit wobbly. You may want to take more time to ghost your ellipses before you draw them in the future.
1 filled page of Ellipses in funnels - Same deal as mentioned before. Good overall.
1 filled page of Plotted perspective - Nice. You did this exercise correctly.
2 filled pages of Rough perspective - These are coming along nicely. But many of your lines are wobbly. I think if you drew your boxes larger, it would encourage the use of your shoulder more. Please consider this when you revisit this exercise for practice in the future.
1 filled pages of Rotated boxes - Nice solid attempt. I can tell you did this to the best of your ability. This is great! I am glad you saw this through to the end. When you revisit this for practice, you should draw your boxes larger. It helps! Trust me.
2 filled pages of Organic perspective - Good overall, but you will get better. Next time you practice this, try to make your boxes larger. Many of your boxes appear to be the same size. The point of this exercise is a box receding in 3D space. Some of your boxes appear to just be floating in 3D space, then they eventually recede in 3D space.
For your benefit, I only want one thing from you. You did great for a begineer! I am impressed! Please see the next steps.
Next Steps:
Next Steps:
1 page of superimposed curved lines. (Please focus on only having a single starting point as mentioned above)
Thank you!! I will do my best to follow your advice!
No problem! Best of luck!
Lines
Your lines overall look good, I would want to point out that sometimes your lines get wobbly, especially in rough perspective. I suppose you focused more on perspective than making good lines. Remember to do a one clean swoop, good linemaking is build upon teribble, BUT confident linemaking.
Ellipses
Your ellipses look okay, I have few problems with them. First, you are making too many loops. Two loops is perfect, three is undersired and four is an totall overkill. You happen to do three and even four loops, that results in a messy ellipses that you can't learn from. Second, your motion of making ellipse isn't fluid. There are sometimes sharp turns that cannot happen if the ellipse is made in once clean move from shoulder. I suppose you do it either slow or more from elbow and wrist than shoulder.
Perspective
Perspective is good, you will learn more about it in 250 box challange.
Overall great job, proud of you. You can go to 250 box challange, just rember about what I talked above.
Next Steps:
First of all, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the box challenge.
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
Tysm!! I will follow your advice and try to write critiques for others when possible.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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