Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

2:42 AM, Tuesday October 13th 2020

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Hello!

Here is my first submission. Any comments are appreciated:)

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5:04 AM, Tuesday October 13th 2020

Hi! I’ll be looking through this, then~

Starting with your superimposed lines, these are looking good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. Moving on to your ghosted lines/planes, these look quite good, too. They’re fairly confident, though oftentimes a little wobbly at the end. Remember that it’s far more important for our lines to be smooth, and straight, than it is for them to stop at the correct end point, so try to be a little less conscious of it if you can.

The table of ellipses exercise looks… okay. Your ellipses have a habit of starting off a little stiff, and only stabilizing in their second rotation- usually an indication that a student is committing to a mark before they’re ready. They’re also rarely drawn through a full 2 times, which is bad. This goes for the ellipses in planes exercise, too, but, at the very least, they’re still fairly rounded here, so you haven’t fallen into that trap of having them become deformed in an effort to touch as much of the plane as possible. Aside from that one funnel that has all of those spacing issues, and the aforementioned confidence/rotation issues in regards to your ellipses, the funnels exercise looks good. They’re, for the most part, properly aligned to the minor axis. By the way, I’ll recommend drawing the minor axis last, that is to say, drawing both arcing lines first, and then it, so you don’t run into that issue where you find that it’s not properly centered, and have to draw another arcing line. Generally, re-doing a line isn’t recommended, anyway. Also, use a ruler for it. Though this section shows a good understanding of the concepts we’re trying to impart, the lack of confidence is a bit of an issue, so we’ll work on it a little more before moving on.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean- nicely done. Save for a minor issue in confidence (remember that, despite the big picture, what you’re doing here is no different from what you were doing in the ghosted lines/planes exercises: drawing a line from point A to point B; if it can be confident there, it can be confident here, too) the rough perspective exercise looks great. You’ve got 2 sets of lines at infinity, as per the rules of 1 point perspective, and the convergences are quite solid, too, a good indication that the student has taken their time planning them. I’ll quickly call out the automatic reinforcing here, too, however: don’t correct an incorrect line. Adding more ink to a mistake doesn’t make it disappear- quite the contrary, it draws the viewer’s attention to it. It’s far wiser to leave them be, usually. Solid attempt at the rotated boxes exercise. The boxes don’t quite rotate, but that’s not so out of the ordinary at the start. What’s important is that you’ve seen this through to the end, and done it to the best of your ability. I’ll quickly mention, though, that plotting out a VP, and ghosting your lines to it is not the point of this exercise. Quite the contrary, it’s estimating its location through the use of other boxes neighboring edges. So I’d recommend not doing that, if you can (if I’m interpreting the markings on your page correctly.) Finally, nice job on the organic perspective exercise. I’m, first and foremost, pleased to see that you’ve drawn through your boxes. This is actually not required for this exercise, but it’s always nice to see a student go above and beyond- you can rest assured that this has taught you a lot more than the alternative would have. As for the exercise itself, your boxes are of a consistent, shallow foreshortening, and they have a gradual increase in size, both of which really help convey the illusion of flow.

Nice job on this submission. Before I have you move on, I’d like to see

Next Steps:

1 page of the table of ellipses exercise, where you’re mindful of my instructions regarding their confidence, or lack thereof

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
5:18 PM, Tuesday October 13th 2020

Hi Benj! Thank you for your feedback! i really appreciate that. So i have made another table of ellipses.(the link is down below) This time i tried to make them more confident and draw them a full 2 times. I messed up ellipses at the top XD but i think the other ones look more solid. By the way, do you think it is better to complete 250 box and cylinder challenges before i will move to the lesson 2?

https://imgur.com/gallery/5kRTaKv

7:07 PM, Tuesday October 13th 2020
edited at 7:07 PM, Oct 13th 2020

This is much better! Continue pushing them in that direction, and they’ll be even more so, and, as a result of that mileage, their accuracy is bound to increase, too.

It’s better, and, indeed, recommended, to complete the box challenge before lesson 2, yes. As for the cylinder challenge, the recommended order is to go for it after lesson 5, though you can do it at any time before lesson 2, technically.

Next Steps:

For now, i'll send you off to the box challenge, since that's next on the list. Good luck!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
edited at 7:07 PM, Oct 13th 2020
8:04 PM, Tuesday October 13th 2020

Thank you :)

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