Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
10:42 PM, Friday May 27th 2022
Any form of feedback is greatly appreciated!
Hi there! Your friendly neighborhood Farwoode swinging in here to offer up some critique. Nice work on completing lesson 1. Let’s go over some concepts for review.
Lines
The superimposed lines are fraying on both ends. Fraying is expected at your end point, but fraying at the beginning suggests you aren’t taking the time to position your pen at your starting point, and that you’re either going through without consciously thinking about the marks you’re making, or you’re just not focusing on where you’re putting your pen down. Drawing confidently is the goal, and part of that goal is making sure you’re being conscious about where your pen is going down at the start of your mark consistently.
In your ghosted lines, we see some wobbly lines, so make sure that you aren’t hesitating when you execute the line, and that you’re drawing with your shoulder and not your wrist. These lines rely on drawing from your shoulder.
Ellipses
Your tables of ellipses are looking nice! Good job on focusing on drawing through the ellipses, and it looks like you drew through each ellipse. Accuracy is built over time with this exercise.
In your ellipses in planes exercise, a few of your ellipses wobble out trying to touch all four sides. We want to prioritize smooth ellipses, without it being bumpy or wobbly. We also see your lines are wobbling on your plane edges. A wobbly line suggests you’re hesitating and not giving up control when you make the mark.
Boxes
Your plotted perspective looks good.
In the rough perspective method, there are two big things. The slanted lines on your boxes. All of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of the verticals should be perpendicular (straight up and down) to the horizon lines. Also, please refer to: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/step6 Step 6 states we do not plot the red lines back to the VP, like you did, but to the horizon line, which is the line running across your page. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/plottinglines
Good work so far.
Next Steps:
Focus on superimposed and ghosted lines in your warm ups, and move on to the 250 box challenge.
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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