hello, good job for your completion of lesson 1, I will do your homework critique today :)
Superimposed lines: The aren't confident, I suggest you do one more page
Ghosted lines: The lines are wobbly and not confident, it seems like you didn't draw from the shoulder and you didn't ghost enough
Ghosted planes: The ellipses in Planes are decent, the lines have the same problem as the ghosted line, redo the pages
Tables of ellipses: I'd like for you to redo the exercise completely. The ellipses are within the bounds most of the time but they are messy and seem done frantically and fast, without ghosting, they are not confident. the second page is decent . You need to take your time doing this exercise. One thing that worked for me is going a little slower when putting the marks. I think you should re-do 1 page.
Ellipses in funnels: The minor axis is cutting the ellipses in half most of the time as intended, the problem of the messy ellipses still persist, I don't want you to re-do this excercise just do it in your warmup excercises
Plotted perspective: You did well, good job
Rough perspective: You did a good job with the perspective, but the lines have the same problem as before, id like you to do one page of this too.
Rotated boxes: This exercise is done well even if you didn't use any type of shading.
Organic perspective: This excercise is difficult but you did well, the first page has the same lines problem as before, but you did extremely well on the second page
overall you have problems in your lines, I think you should ghost more and take your time while ghosting, you should re-do 1 page of super imposed lines, 2 pages of ghosted planes, page of table of ellipses and 1 page of rough perspective. I'm sorry if I've been too harsh but I'd like for you to get better at marks making before doing the 250 boxes challenge, have a nice day,take your time:)
Thank you for your feedback! I agree that I am not yet all that skilled in markmaking - but that, to my understanding, is not what we're aiming for, right? From the lesson 1 critique guide and lesson 0 (if I remember correctly), the purpose is to show that I've understood the assignment and what I should be aiming for.
Unless I am misunderstanding your critique completely, what you seem to be saying primarily is that I have understood the exercises, but that I'm not skilled enough to proceed? Intuitively, I agree with you, but it seems the course guidelines explicitly tell me that's not a problem? From the above link:
Remember that the purpose of the assigned homework is to confirm whether the student understands what they should be aiming for, and how to approach the work. Simply not yet being at a certain level of skill is not in itself a mistake or a problem. Practice comes from warmups, so always encourage students to incorporate their exercises into their warmup routine as explained in Lesson 0 (drawing their attention to the specific section: https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/3/warmups can be helpful).
You also give me some feedback that I'm not ghosting. If you could elaborate I'd be happy - because I assure you that I am, at least, unless I've missunderstood something. Could you clarify what brings you to that conclusion, so that I know what to fix/examine? If I redid the exercise now, it'd be with the same ghosting technique as I've used since day 1, so it wouldn't fix a whole lot without anything more concrete.
Thank you so much for your time, and sorry to take more of it by asking for clarifications like this.
you are right. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding
upon further review I think in reality your marksmaking had a really nice upgrade from the ghosted planes that had problems of confidence and the rotated boxes excercise where your lines are more straight and confident. so I won't ask you to redo the excercises but do them as warmup often.
what I'm going to ask is to redo the ellipses excercise, the searching lines are too messy and don't make the form visible, remember the 2 searching lines are supposed to make the form more visible, to fix this you should take more time ghosting, what worked for me with ellipses was to ghost the line multiple times and than make the mark not fast and not too slow.
to improve in normal ghosting line I can suggest ghosting the line alot of times and try to visualize it on paper and do it without hesitation, a thing that could work to make it more straight is to hold the pen a little higher. thanks for your feedback it will help me to make better revisions:)
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