5:18 PM, Sunday June 7th 2020
Hello BIPOLARCOOKIE!
Overall, nicely done.
Lines:
Your lines are overall pretty confident with smooth and continuous flow. There are a couple of lines that wobble a bit as you draw towards the targeted point. 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:
Ellipses are off to a good start and are mostly confident. There are some that turn sharply as you fit your ellipses it their allotted spaces. Just as with lines, focus first on confident smooth strokes. Then work on maintaining its roundedness, and then accuracy last. Ellipses in the funnel are generally aligned to the minor axis. With the exception of a few, you are drawing through your ellipses appropriately, 2-3 times each.
Boxes:
As you continue to go through your boxes, I notice your lines remain confident. At times, there are repeated/corrected lines. No matter how tempting it is to correct an errant line, do not correct or repeat over it to correct it. To help prevent this, take your time with planning with dots. The great thing about dots is you don’t have to commit to the very first dot(s) you place. They can be moved around as you see fit before you commit to a line. But once you draw the line, stick with what you have even if it’s wrong. If/when applying line weight, use the same technique to ghost and execute the line with your shoulder. Draw the line weight as you did with a superimposed line, but just once (it’s ok that it will be subtle).
Rough perspective:
You’ve done a pretty nice job maintaining horizontal lines to be parallel to the horizon line, and vertical lines perpendicular to it. The convergences of the boxes aren’t too bad.
Rotating boxes:
First, kudos on completing this exercise! The boxes are generally rotating along the vertical and horizontal, so nice job. Some boxes in the inner corners aren’t quite rotating, meaning they are sharing a similar or shared vanishing point. Other than that, the boxes are also pretty well neighbored to each other and drawn through.
Organic perspective:
Generally, as the boxes get gradually smaller on the path, you’ve conveyed a sense that they move away from the viewer. In terms of perspective, you’re off to a good start. A few sets of parallel lines diverge away from their shared vanishing point, making the planes further away from the viewer appear larger instead of gradually smaller. But no worries, as you will work on this more in the 250 Box Challenge!
With that, congratulations on completing Lesson 1!
Next Steps:
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Continue to use these exercises as part of your warm ups (about 10-15 minutes)
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Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge
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Don’t forget to take breaks and draw for fun!
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Also, now that you’ve completed Lesson 1, I encourage you to critique some Lesson 1 community submissions. Not only will this help the community, but it will also solidify and help reinforce your understanding of the material. If you’d be willing to help, a guide was created by one of our community members on how to go about critiquing Lesson 1 here: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ