Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

8:13 PM, Thursday September 15th 2022

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hi i am very new to drawing and want to learn and improve, after doing these exersises i could instantly see the improvement and im committed to learning more and more, i am currently having lots of trouble with the organic perspectives i am in about a month into learning and the past week has been solely concentrated on organic perspective.

i would like to know what is passable and what isnt, and if i dont pass do i just redo the assignments before posting again? anyways im looking forward to any criticism and help!

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1:07 PM, Friday September 16th 2022

Hello AQUIETLULL, I'll review your submission .

1) Lines: generally well done, your lines are not wobbly but firm and smooth, however i noticed that your longer lines are less compact and tend to either move a bit upwards or downwards, try to consciously draw in the opposite direction to counter this.

Good job with plotting the lines in the ghosting lines part, however it seems to me that you didn't fully plot every line in the ghosted planes ( I'm referring to the middle lines) with some it seems you did indeed plot them with other not, you should always plot them because they really help with your aim and accuracy ( this will start to matter a lot in the final lessons)

2) Ellipses: your ellipses are okay, you could really improve them by taking things slowly and ghosting them more.

For example: taking a look at your table of ellipses most of your ellipses have a good flow, are not bumpy and are all drawn two or three times.

However looking at the ghosted planes with ellipses, while you do keep a nice flow , they seem to have been drawn too hastily, the first and the second strokes are a bit too further a part from each other showing that you should have kept ghosting for a little while longer.

With the funnels is a mixed bunch, in some you didn't mange to divide the ellipses in equal halves and in others you did, I'd suggest you to practice them a bit.

3) Boxes: Well done, you've done quite well what was required from the lesson (that is drawing through the boxes and applying the correction method in the rough perspective part), still however I see that some of your boxes are still wonky and that many don't reach the vanishing point. To fix this, here again I'd advise you to plot your box ( i quickly drew one for you to follow how to plot it https://imgur.com/a/6br1IX1) basically you need to plot your ghosted/imaginary horizontal lines that aim to the vanishing point, while ghosting them place a dot before you reach the vanishing point, check if the the dot is still in the trajectory of the ghosted line and if it ultimately leads to the vanishing point.

As for the rotated boxes it seems fine, you did manage to rotate the boxes and kept the corners of the boxes quite close to one another, though you shouldn't have drawn hatching lines on the front planes of the boxes, it makes it quite difficult to see through.

As for the organic perspective the objective of the exercise is quite difficult for beginners, so don't worry you'll have plenty of practice with the 250 boxes.

Anyway I think it is more than "passable" as you have said, rather i think you did quite well.

Good job!

Next Steps:

ready for 250 boxes?

I'd advise you to practice these exercises as warm-ups, good luck!

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1:44 PM, Friday September 16th 2022

thank you so much for the feed back and words of encouragement, for the ghosted planes you are correct i never plotted any of the lines going between the diagonals i thought the goal was to just draw a line intersecting the center of the plane.

as for the ellipses i will continue to practice them along with redoing the funnels, i have absolutely been rushing as you said as my adhd brain tends to just say "go" too early. ill keep this in mind!

i did not know that i was not supposed to do hatching lines, i had quite a lot of trouble with both the rotated boxes and organic perspective in general.

thank you for your time!

2:55 PM, Friday September 16th 2022

Honestly this might contradict what I suggested you just now, however don't get too worried about the rushing or not thing , I've also been suggested a bunch of times that I rushed an exercise or a lesson in general.

I believe that it is best to just keep in mind that you can take things slow and also take several days to complete one exercise... If you feel like it.

Truth be told, I usually too get the urge to "go" and wrap things up, especially when many weeks have passed since I started drawing a lesson's exercise, I think it's only natural.

So as long as you feel satisfied of what you did, I'd say it's good enough, if it isn't then somebody will tell you to re draw some pages, no biggie.

About the hatching lines, Uncomfortable did say to hatch, however not like that in the rotated boxes exercise, in his youtube video he hatched in the "gaps" between the boxes, or better yet the sides of the boxes.

I don't think he has actually stated that hatching the front plane of a box is wrong in that particular exercise, however for me personally it was a bit distracting ahahah, so maybe is best not to do it.

Anyway I wish you a constructive and pleasant artistic journey!

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