Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

4:40 AM, Friday June 5th 2020

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4:00 PM, Sunday June 7th 2020

Hello HENRIETTA0910!

Overall, your work here is decently done.

Lines:

Your lines start of pretty confident with smooth and continuous flow in your superimposed lines. However, in the ghosting exercises, they admittedly get a little more [hesitant/wobbly[(https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/wobbling) at times – though there are a fair share of confident strokes. To note, confidence should take precedence and be prioritized before accuracy. It’s ok that the lines aren’t fully accurate, as it is imperative to first develop the shoulder muscle memory to draw out smooth, confident strokes. So continue to ghost and execute every line with your shoulder.

Ellipses:

Your ellipses are off to a pretty decent start and are fairly confident. Some ellipses turn sharply and loses its roundedness as you fit the ellipse in its allotted space. Just as with lines, focus first on maintaining confident, smooth strokes. The next step is to work on its roundedness, and the last step is accuracy. Ellipses in the funnel are mostly aligned to the minor axis. With the exception of a few ellipses, you are drawing through the ellipses appropriately, 2-3 times each.

Boxes:

As you continue to go through your boxes, I notice your lines remain are still a hesitant, but I see some improvement as you move through each exercise. So continue to practice planning, ghosting, and executing every line with your shoulder. Also, I notice you are generally not repeating/correct lines, which is great! There are just a couple of instances as such, but still to note: no matter how tempting it is to correct a line, do not repeat over it to correct it.

Plotted Perspective:

Looks good. However, I want to point out that for this exercise, you are missing some frames. There should be 2-3 frames for this page. However, we’ll move on for now. Please follow instructions carefully in the future.

Rough perspective:

For this exercise, you are missing some frames. Just as with plotted perspective, each page should have 2-3 frames, but again we’ll move on for now. You’ve done a pretty good job in maintaining horizontal lines to be parallel to the horizon line, and vertical lines perpendicular to it. There are some lines that stray off slightly diagonally. The convergences of the boxes aren’t too bad.

Rotating boxes:

First, kudos on completing this exercise! The boxes on the vertical axis are rotating. However, most of the boxes, particularly along the horizontal axis are actually not rotating, meaning that the boxes are sharing a similar or the same vanishing point as its adjacent box. Otherwise, the boxes are pretty well neighbored to each other and are drawn through.

Organic perspective:

Just as with the rough perspective, there should be 2-3 frames per page. This is an important exercise to get you to start thinking about how boxes turn in 3D space, so I’ll request that you do just one more page with 2-3 frames.

On the first page, as the boxes get gradually smaller on the path, you’ve conveyed a sense that they move away from the viewer, which is great. In terms of perspective, some sets of parallel lines diverge away from their vanishing point, making the farther planes of the box appear to get larger instead of slightly smaller. Some boxes also have some dramatic foreshortening occurring. You’ll get to work on perspective and foreshortening more in the 250 Box Challenge.

Next Steps:

Before I mark this lesson as complete, please do 1 more page of Organic Perspective with 2-3 frames. Take your time with this, there's no deadline.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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12:47 AM, Monday June 8th 2020

Marking this as complete, if you want to re-submit what's been asked of you you can still do it, just making sure you get the badge for completing Lesson 1

Next Steps:

Marking this as complete, if you want to re-submit what's been asked of you you can still do it, just making sure you get the badge for completing Lesson 1

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