Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

5:07 PM, Sunday October 2nd 2022

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I am submitting for critique, I already posted this to reddit, to my understanding I am not breaking any rules by posting here as well, but if I am than I apologize. Please critique my work and guide me to how I might improve before I move on.

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4:33 AM, Monday October 3rd 2022

First critique, so I hope this is helpful. This is pretty much on the basis of the instructions guideline up on pastebin, put up by our own member. The criteria I'm using is that you shouldn't be making more than a third of the mistakes mentioned in that post, and I'll consider you to have made that mistake if either 1) you've consistently made the same mistake throughout the assignment with no signs of improvement, or 2) you've made the mistake randomly more than a quarter of the time. If you've completed the section without mistakes, it gets a pass from me, and if there's a mistake that I think won't be cleared up through practice, I won't mark it as complete. If the mistakes are showing signs of clearing up, or I think that it's simply because of a lack of practice, then you'll get a pass for that section.

Starting with the lines section, your initial lines in the superimposed lines section showed some fraying on both ends in the first few lines, but you'd quickly cleaned up your linework by the end, so I'll say that you're free from that mistake. You had some degree of wobble, but you started bringing that into control by the end, and your other lines in the other sections showed that you were drawing your strokes confidently and without overly focusing on the accuracy, so that's a pass. Finally, your lines in this section showed no indication of arching, so you're clear for that section. Overall, I'd say your superimposed lines section is complete.

Because ghosted lines and ghosted planes are so similar—with the ghosted planes being arguable just a more advanced version of the ghosted lines exercise, I'll tackle them simultaneously. Starting with the same points as the superimposed lines exercise, I don't pick up fraying on both ends, so I'll mark that as complete. There's some wobble in some lines, but you're keeping it in check, and overall I think that the wobble will clear out with practice, so you've cleared that criteria. A couple of your lines are arched, but the arch is minor and the level of arching is negligible, so that's clear. On the ones specific to ghosting, you've made the mistake of not putting down all your points in the ghosted planes exercise, as some of the diagonals have been drawn without the starting and/or end points. As this mistake has been made consistently for both pages, and has occurred more than a quarter of the times, I'll mark that mistake as having been made. Additionally, you've drawn over some of the lines in these exercises multiple times, but as that is not a consistent mistake, I won't consider it as having been made, instead just mentioning it so that you're aware of it.

On the whole, I'd say that you've completed the lines section.

Moving onto the ellipses section, I can immediately see that you've not drawn through the ellipses two complete times, instead only drawing through them once on both the Table of Ellipses exercise and Ellipses in Planes exercise. You're clear for the funnels exercise. Additionally, your ellipses show a lack of confidence and, in certain cases, deformation, in the Table of Ellipses exercise, but I rule it to lack of practice as you show remarkable improvement in the overall confidence with which you draw by the Ellipses in Planes exercise. Overall, that mistake is negligible.

Table of Ellipses is clear in my opinion, as your ellipses are gradually fitting into the assigned space, and same goes for Funnel of Ellipses, as your ellipses align to the center axis.

Overall, Ellipses is clear.

Similarly, your Boxes section is clear, because you've drawn through the boxes for all exercises except organic perspective (which is acceptable), you've performed the line correction in rough perspective, and your boxes in the rotated boxes exercise show rotation.

Overall, Boxes are clear.

On the whole, I'd mark this assignment as complete.

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9:51 AM, Monday October 3rd 2022

Thanks very much. I found the critique exceptionally helpful. I thought I'd do much worse actually, so I am quite relieved, but also glad to have my attention drawn to the stuff I could have done better. I'll try and focus on that stuff with some warmups, e.g. going around elipses twice, marking the points for diagonals and middles on the planes exercise, and everything else you've mentioned. Thanks again for taking the time to help somebody like me get better.

1:38 PM, Monday October 3rd 2022

No problem. This is a community, and if we don't help one another, then none of us will be able to get anywhere far.

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