Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

4:41 AM, Saturday May 2nd 2020

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2:20 PM, Saturday May 2nd 2020

Hi, Fallandrix and congrats on finished Lesson 1.

Let me take a look on what you did.

Lines

Your superimposed lines are overall good, with not much frailing in at the start of the line, showing you focused on making sure you started each line on the same spot. You do show some wobbling, specially on longer lines. This might happen because you weren't drawing them fast enough. The same happens on your ghosted lines. In these kind of exercises you want to prioritize confidence over accuracy.

Your planes show slightly better lines, although some wobbling is still noticeable. Don't forget to place the dots before you draw each line. It seems that in this exercise you didn't put them for the inside lines of the planes.

Ellipses

Your ellipses are nice and well packed together. You have some difficulty on more rounder ones, but with practice you'll get better at it. Your ellipses in planes also seem OK. On the funnels exercises you did a good job keeping them aligned to the minor axis.

Boxes

Your rough perspective shows good line work in keeping the horizontal lines parallel with each other, as well as the vertical ones. The amount of boxes drawn shows you had a lot of work during this task and although there are some boxes were the perspective lines could certainly be better, I think overall you did a good job. You could, however, have varied more in the shape of the boxes, since they seem very similar to each other.

On your rotated boxes you seem to show good rotation initially, but I feel you should have pushed the rotation further when going into the corners.

Your organic perspective shows good sense in keeping the boxes like they belong in the same 3D space. The perspective lines are mostly good for what its asked in this exercise, but I think you could have worked better on drawing the flow from smaller to larger boxes, specially on the first page. On the second page it seems you paid attention to this even drawing more overlapping boxes. You could, however, have played with the lines weight in order to better show which ones are in front and which are in the back.

Next Steps:

Overall I think you did a good job I feel I can see your progress along the exercise. Keep practicing your lines with confidence on your warmups and good luck for the 250 boxes challenge.

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8:40 PM, Saturday May 2nd 2020

Hi Pedro!

Thanks for your time! Yep! i have some majoor problems when it comes to lines. I usually tend to mind that i should hit the dot, Ignoring the fact that this exercise is all about confidence! Tho, I mind it when I finally took the 250 challenge where i ghost first before landing the tip of the pen on the paper.

Thanks a lot again for the critique! I knew that there was something wrong but i can't define it myself! hahaha!

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7:56 PM, Saturday May 2nd 2020

I prefer photos over scanner, sometimes scanners have weird options that make the lines show differently, and photos don't do that, so If you are going to use your mobile, I'd rather have you post the photos directly.

Lines are a bit wobbly in the start, though they improve a lot as you go through the exercises.

In these exercises, you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy.

A wobbly line will always be worse than a confident line, no matter how off the confident line is.

If you take a look over the ghosted lines notes you'll see the levels of lines:

Level 1: Line is smooth and consistent without any visible wobbling, but doesn't quite pass through A or B, due to not following the right trajectory. It's a straight shot, but misses the mark a bit.

Level 2: Line is straight, smooth and consistent without any wobbling and maintains the correct trajectory. It does however either fall short or overshoot one or both points.

Level 3: Line is straight, smooth, consistent without any wobbling. It also starts right at one point and ends exactly at the other.

As you can see, wobbly lines aren't mentioned, which means that they would be worse than level 1.

Ellipses, though mostly confident, are a bit wobbly at times too. Remember that in ellipses as well as lines you should try to do them as confident as you can, don't hesitate in sacrificing accuracy to get them smoother and more confident.

On the funnels exercise, don't forget that the minor axis should cut ellipses in 2 even halves.

In boxes, you've done a pretty good job overall as well. Though they have a few issues.

First is that the lines are getting a bit more wobbly. Take your time with every line, plot starting and ending points, and ghost just like you attempted in ghosted lines exercise.

You're also repeating lines as well, no matter how wronga line is, don't repeat it.

On the organic perspective, boxes should get smaller as they get away from the viewer, yours mantain a consistent size, be wary of that. I recommend trying more overlaps too. You can clarify after the overlaps by adding a confident, drawn with the shoulder superimposed line on the part of the silhouette of the boxes that overlap. Perspective on them has issues but you'll work on it on the box challenge, so don't worry about it!

Next Steps:

P good job overall, take your time with next exercises, draw confident lines and don't forget not to repeat lines. Good luck on the box challenge!

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8:45 PM, Saturday May 2nd 2020

Hi Elodin! Thanks for shedding some light on the mistakes that I didn't caught up while doing these... I Dang knew that i made a mistake! But AACCKK! I can't define what is it!

Thanks again!

8:52 PM, Saturday May 2nd 2020

That's super normal, it's what feedback is for, and it's why it's so important! good luck in the box challenge :)

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