Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

6:31 AM, Saturday October 3rd 2020

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I have never done something like this!

It was quite exhausting doing some of the exercises. I'm just starting to learn how to draw and before finding about this site I was feeling overwhelmed by all the topics that it's necessary to learn in order to draw whatever thing you want :( I still can't draw much btw... Thanks to the explanations and descriptions of different concepts given by Uncomfortable at least I feel that now I can follow this path with a little more clarity.

Any feedback is welcome!! Thank you!!

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9:27 PM, Wednesday October 7th 2020

Hello there, it is critique time :) Let's jump straight into it

Lines

Starting with super imposed lines, the longer ones tend curve but i'll explain more on that at ghosted lines. It is good seeing fraying on one side and that accuracy will get better over time with warm-ups.

Ghosted lines you made 2 pages while one was required. I'm guessing this was a redo page? If it was you don't need to. Only doing the required page amount is needed. You build on these basics and improve with them over time.

For the pages itself, one has mainly straight one while the other page has some wobble. Keep ghosting till you are confident for making the mark and go for it! For arching line you might not be using your shoulder completely and if you do, try to consiously go into the opposite way you want to. That should negate the arching line. Over time the accuarcy will come. For now it is about that confidence baby!

Oh damn, the planes are looking pretty damn solid for the majority other than a few archs and missing the middle but you did pretty well on this.

Ellipses

Alright, beginning with tables of ellipses you did draw 2 to 3 time, nice. I did see on your first page (i'm assuming) that you went through your ellipses at first but slowly corrected that on your second and third page? Anyways, as you went through these you slowly but surely made them snuggly in between each ellipse. The ellipses will get tighter and tighter as you keep getting better. But be careful if theres not space for a full one not to cram one in there. One that is thinner than the other is okay as long if its snuggly in there and not breaking boundries. And if there is still room like in the top left on 1 page you can still put an ellipse in there. Tl;dr Keep stuff snuggly and if there is room left you can make them smaller as long as it's snuggly.

Ellipses in planes are looking hella solid my man! great stuff on these. I see a lot off improved. A few iffy one here and there with ellipses not touches each side and some lines missing the middle but thats a few. For the most part you did great!

Funnels. They are very well done. Only thing i can say is while they keep getting wider as the go away from the middle, they stay snuggly against each other which you did on 1 of the 2 pages.

Boxes

Plotted perspective looking nice, back of the box is alligned well.

On rough perspective (1 VP) all lines that don't go to the vp are even. Some of your back line dip diagonal to touch the line wanting to go to the vp. Try to keep the lines as even as possible. Accuracy will get better, especially after the 250 box challenge.

Rotated boxes look really clean. They don't seem to rotate that well around the outer circle though. As a box rotates it's front view will get slimmer and slimmer while you get to seem more of the side. The outer boxes you did stay the same as the one next to it or get wider on the front view. While this gif moves rather fast, as it rotates you can see the that at some the front is not very vissible while the side is

And the final stretch, rotated boxes.They once again look clean. If there is overlap, you can give it some line weight to go ver that specific part again. Line weight shows what is in front of what.

Most of your boxes look pretty separate and when you do this as warm-up you can make more overlap or make the boxes way too big (if you want to be dramatic that is.)

Overall, you did a pretty solid job there with these. you stumbled a bit with lines at the beginning but got better as you progressed. Same goes at the start of ellipses. And a bit of boxes too but you managed to get up and beat lesson 1 successfully!

One thing i wanted to add here is that if you ever mess up that you keep on pressing forward and don't redo a whole page. ( I am guilty of it too sometimes) If you mess up, finish it and do the next page adding what you learned from the previous.

Next Steps:

250 box challenge woo! You did really well. Time to move on.

Good luck!

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6:14 PM, Monday October 12th 2020

Thank you sooooo much for your critique!!! :D

When I ended the lesson I was quite afraid to submit my work but the further I go into the lessons the more question that I have (and can't answer them by myself). I have a lot of problems trying to use only my shoulder, so every exercise took me some time to ended it and also when I make mistakes I just can't stop thinking about it, so even the next line become a challenge (I'm working on letting things be now :'D)

Again thanks you so much for taking the time to look at my homework.

7:46 PM, Tuesday October 13th 2020

Anytime

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