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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

2:46 PM, Sunday April 24th 2022

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Hello!

Newbie to drawing, any feedback is appreciated. I was having some issues with my pen not giving me a lot of ink here and there, mostly refrained from the instinct of filling in the line again but failed to resist sometimes. Also in the rough perspective and organic perspective exercises I know I messed up a few of the boxes (certain sets of lines not being very parallel at all) but decided to submit the exercises as is instead of redoing them.

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10:50 PM, Sunday April 24th 2022

Lines:

Overall, your lines section was pretty good! Things that I would keep in mind in the future though would be to consciously be counteracting the curves in your lines, as they sometimes appear to have a curve to them. This greatly helped me alongside with using your whole arm to draw. Additionally, try to make sure that your lines all start at the same point. For now, its fine if they're not as alligned as much toward the end, but when you go over a line multiple times, you want to make sure that they all start at the same location. Other than that, you appeared to be ghosting and followed the directions well and your lines all turned out pretty good!

Ellipses:

Your ellipses were also done very well throughout the lesson! Even when you went outside of the boxes, you kept your strokes nice and loose and drew through them well! This will be important going forward so its a good thing that you got it down now! I don't have many other critiques except to make sure your lines are straight in the planes for the ellipses in planes exercise. Other than that, your ellipses were all very well done!

Boxes:

For your boxes, you did pretty well for someone who's a newbie to drawing. Your plotted perspective was very well done and had no issues. Your rough perspective was a little "rough" and sometimes your points sometimes were in the wrong places. To avoid this, I'd recommend spending more time on the assignment throughout (placing your points, measuring in your head, ghosting your lines, ect.) as this will just help your drawing in general. Also, don't feel that you need to stick by the points your draw before drawing your lines. If one is off, simply draw a new one and use that instead. This practice also greatly helps in the 250 box challenge. Your rotated boxes showed great potential as you seem to be getting the idea of how to rotate the boxes in relation to each other. As for your organic perspective, I would just recommend having more varying boxes in order to give the illusion that motion is happening, though you seem to have fixed this as you went on.

Great job!

Next Steps:

I'd say try to do one more rough perspective page before moving on to the 250 box challenge to make sure you've got it down. Other than that, great job throughout!

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
6:39 AM, Wednesday May 4th 2022

Hello,

Thank you very much for the critique. I highly appreciate it. I did a new page of rough perspective, link: https://imgur.com/a/vWWmfp5.

About your comment "As for your organic perspective, I would just recommend having more varying boxes in order to give the illusion that motion is happening", do you specifically mean the rotation of the boxes or also the shapes?

Thank you!

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