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3:29 AM, Sunday March 8th 2020

Hey Rikkle, welcome to the community! I'm one of the TAs and I'll be going over your work today so let's get started.

With your super imposed lines you're drawing confidently and from the shoulder so that's great. You've got a lot of fraying going on so now it's time to start practicing with your pace to try and get the grouping a little tighter, but you're off to a good start! With your ghosted lines there's some wobble there so just keep practicing the ghosting method and really using your shoulder as the main driver of the motion.

Moving on to your ellipses, overall they are shaped nicely and you're doing a good job drawing through them. Your ellipses in planes are making contact at the right spots on the planes, but in this exercise you get a little wild with the drawing through. Your tables of elliplses are good, and you do a good job keeping everything tightly packed so there's no ambiguity. In your funnels exercise you are right on most of the time with your minor axis alignment so keep practicing ellipses in warm ups to improve the draftsmanship side of things.

With your rough perspective boxes the first thing that jumps out to me is a lot of redrawing lines. This is not necessarily what we want to do (unless you are applying lineweight, in which case just keep practicing super imposing your lines). But if you are drawing these lines over because you aren't happy with the first attempt, you should break this habit before it takes root. When redrawing a mistake line, it only draws more attention to it rather than leaving it be. So just always ghost and use your shoulder and prepare each line careuflly. Your line alignment is good - horizontals parallel to the horizon and verticals perpendicular, and your converging lines are on the right track and will improve with time.

Moving on to your rotated boxes, the first thing to state is that the onyl goal here is for students to try their best and complete it so they can see new types of spatial puzzles and solution methods, a "pretty" or "correct" drawing is not the goal here. So there are a few things to point out:

  • Rotation - your boxes aren't rotated so much as skewed and shifted, as explained here. Give this gif another watch and study how the vanishing points motion along the horizon line is what drives the rotation.

  • You have done a good job keeping your boxes packed tightly so you can use the adjacent lines as perspective aides

  • You could have drawn much larger. When drawing tricky things always try to go as big as possible so your brain has as much room as possible to work through these puzzles.

Finally, let's look at your organic perspective. You've got good motion in these, and you do a good job overlapping your forms and scaling them down to both contribute to selling the illusion of 3d space on a 2d page. You are still doing a lot of line drawing over so try to work on not doing that. Your perspective is showing a lot of divergence (where the near planes are smaller than the far planes), but that's perfectly normal. I think the most successful fram is the third one on the first page as it really feels three dimensional!

Next Steps:

You have completed lesson 1, congratulations! Your next stop is the 250 box challenge. Remember to draw for fun per lesson 0, take advantage of all the resources uncomfortable has provided, and try not to redraw lines you aren't happy with. Keep up the good work and see you next time!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
9:30 AM, Sunday March 8th 2020

Thank you!

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