Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
9:09 AM, Monday February 19th 2024
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8:11 AM, Friday March 8th 2024
hello! i’ll be providing some feedback for your submission:)
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superimposed lines, ghosted lines, ghosted planes
your lines look nice and neat, good job starting them carefully from the same point, and keep them straight and confident
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ellipses
some of your ellipses look a little wobbly, make sure you're ghosting them a few times before you draw them. rereading this section of the lesson notes may help, particularly try going a little faster to prevent the wobbliness from occuring.
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plotted perspective, rough perspective
good work with the plotted and rough perspective, they look great! just make sure that you’re drawing each line to the best of your ability like how you did in the lines exercises, as some of them look wobbly.
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rotated boxes and organic perspective look good to me.
one suggestion would be to make sure that there’s no ink bleeding through from your other pages / on the other side (e.g. the head value studies you seem to be doing) as they make your submitted work harder to look at properly.
the main thing to note would be to try to keep your ellipses less wobbly. everything else looks fine to me, good job!
Next Steps:
continue on to 250 boxes challenge, try to keep ellipses less wobbly during warmup
9:19 AM, Wednesday March 13th 2024
Thank you so much for tthe crit!! I definitely struggle with ellipses a lot, although curves are just fine somehow. Usually when drawing I just do two halves I suppose. I will warm up with them more.
How do you schedule(?) your warm ups?
I want to fill this sketchbook, so there will be bleeding lines here and there, but I'll clean up my pictures next hand-in :)
Thanks again! Have a good week ~
2:27 PM, Wednesday March 13th 2024
You're welcome:) Hmm, i just do about 10-15min of lesson 1 exercises for warmup before I start each day, i like to do half page of planes with ellipses in them, and half page of ellipses in funnel, because I find that they cover most of the skills.
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