Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:56 AM, Wednesday May 12th 2021
Lesson 1 complete and (finally) scanned for critique!
Your lines are not bad with a few wobbles here and there but that's natural for this part of the course. The main problem is that you didn't take the time to position your pen before starting a line which leads to fraying on both ends. Take note that the two marks at ghosted lines are there to be guidelines for both point A and point B. It is fine if you miss point B, but you ignored point A. Fortunately, most of your ghosted lines follow that rule. Just take your time, and your results will be much better for the rest of the course. I suggest you spend 5 minutes practicing your lines and mainly focus on taking the time to position your pen.
As for the ellipses, they are quite wobbly, as well as the ellipses doesn't touch the four points of the box, which suggests you didn't do enough ghosting beforehand. The minor axis are tilted which is probably the result of some excess spaces because you didn't make them compact enough or lack of ghosting. Try to squish the ellipses and fill out the sections with as much ellipses as possible. You will need to practice making similar ellipses once you start making cylinders. The same can be said on your funnels which has too many excess spaces and multiple tilted minor axis. You did a good job with most of them so you just have to take the time to practice it before you start drawing whether it is for drawabox or you own works.
Just like with your lines, the hatching on your boxes are not planned out, and not consistently tight between multiple boxes and some wobbles. As for the shape of your boxes, some horizontal and vertical lines don't align with each other and led to a domino effect of the box looking deformed. Take the time to visualize the lines needed to get the box you want and take it slow. A single line could make a noticeable mistake and ruin the box. But don't worry too much about your boxes because you will spend a lot of time on the 250 box challenge later on and it will surely help you make more parallel and straighter lines.
Next Steps:
Your mistakes are normal and I believe you are ready to take the 250 box challenge. I highly recommend that you start practicing your lines before drawing anything so that you will develop the habit of positioning your pen before you start on each line and make more confident lines.
Ok, thank you for taking the time to critique- I noticed even with my ghosting I was pretty shaky. With the ellipses, would it be worthwhile making that a part of a warm-up until I can reliably put one over all four sides of a plane, or would that be considered grinding?
Thanks again for taking the time to review, there's a lot of feedback that I'll take on board and focus more on slowing myself down.
It's fine to add it to your warm-ups since you are likely to use ellipses on your own drawings. Just make lines the main focus for now with ellipses making up a smaller percentage of your warm-up time since the 250 box challenge will take a while to complete before you start drawing cylinders.
Aren't the rotated boxes also part of lesson 1? I can't see that part of the homework.
Hey, it should be there- checked the imgure album and it's just before my organic perspective sheets.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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