Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

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This is my homework on lesson 1: I had problems with what type of pen to use in the first two homeworks. The perspective in boxes is something very interesting but i need more practice to have a better grasp on it. I welcome critique on all this homework.

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5:35 PM, Monday July 19th 2021
edited at 7:51 PM, Jul 19th 2021

Hello there!

Lets take a look at your submission!

lines

The superimposed lines exercise looks decent, however some of these lines show signs off wobbliness. Remember when drawing a line, confidence should always be prioritized over accuracy. There also seems to be some slight fraying on both ends, so make sure to take your time when making your mark.

Same goes for the ghosted lines exercise, where some lines seem to diverge in order to hit the ending dot. A confident line will always be preferred over a accurate one. Focus on confidence, accuracy will come later. Something that could help is trying to lift the pen instead of stopping your whole arm at the end of the mark. Id also suggest to try some longer lines the size of the page, since a lot of these lines are quite small. However, your lines do seem to improve a lot throughout the lesson.

elipses

Your elipses look great, smooth and confident. For some of these, I feel like you could have ghosted a little more to try and fit the elipses within their bounds. However, the most important thing is confidence, which these elipses are.

Some elipses in the funnels do seem to show some signs of wobbliness though. Just like lines, confidence is our top priority, instead of accuracy.

boxes

You did the plotted perspective exercise as instructed - not much to add here.

For the rough perspective, some of the wobbliness in the lines still seem to persist, so remember to focus on confidence with the boxes as well. Besides that, you are doing a good job on planning your lines!

The rotated boxes looks great as well. In comparison with the previous exercises, your lines show a lot of improvement. You seem to have redrawn the box in the middle left in attempt to make it rotate a little more. Altough this box (along with some other ones as well) could use some more rotation, trying to redo mistakes is still discouraged. When messing up, its best to leave it be and carry on with the exercise. Also I think adding hatching to the boxes would've made it even better. Hatching helps with mileage and will also help differentiate between the boxes better.

Your organic perspective looks great as well! Good job

In the beginning, some of your marks showed signs of hesistation, but it seems to progress considerably throughout the lesson. You have done a good job, so Ill mark it as complete. Don't forget to include these exercises in your warmups. Good luck!

Next Steps:

250 box challenge

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edited at 7:51 PM, Jul 19th 2021
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3:09 PM, Sunday August 8th 2021

hello I'm lia and I'm here to do a critique of your homework!

let's start with the lines!

your superimposed lines are very Good! there steady and I see no fraying of the lines at all, pretty solid start right there :).

your ghosted lines are quite confident and I only see a tiny bit of unsteady lines / wobble and just a bit of arching; but otherwise it's very good.

your ghosted planes are also quite Good, they fill up the page and are drawn in many different angles and are clearly ghosted over and planned.

so overall I see nothing of note critiquing in your lines!

ellipses:

The table: I can see you jam packed your table of ellipses and while there isn't much overlap I do see that they skew away from each other just a tad and aren't as snug as they could be, but overall you managed to do the goal of the Ellipses so I count the exercise as executed.

The ghosted ellipses are also done quite well! I can't find much to complain about them or critique them so you got a good job going on there.

now onto the funnels: the axis is splitting the middle quite evenly and I only see two ellipses that aren't as snug as they could be next to the others but overall they are done quite well!

boxes:

plotted perspective: I can see that the boxes all go meet up in their respective vanishing points and isn't too crowded otherwise. very nice job!

rough perspective: I think your second page is much better then your first page in making the boxes meet alongside the horizon line and not towards the vanishing point, not to say your first page is wrong, it just i think it's better

rotated perspective: you rotated the boxes very well! You achieved a good globe like shape and were able to fully rotate the boxes at every angle, showing moderate understanding of the 3d plane.

now for the organic perspective I think you drew the boxes alongside the line pretty well and show also a good understanding of how the perspective is meant to be employed.

overall, good job!

Next Steps:

onto the 250 boxes challenge you go!

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