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12:44 PM, Saturday May 20th 2023

to start, please merge all of the submissions to one link in the future if you plan to submit it by the end of the lesson. it would make it a lot more convinient.

but it's no big deal.

so let's see here.

L1E1:

i'll be honest, i have no idea what you had in mind trying to draw those "swirls" it is not mentioned in the exercise, and nor shown in the example drawing. on top of that, i have no idea which is the original line, which doesn't help either. esp for those circles. which i suppose you know by now, have their own execises.

i have no idea what you used to make those swirls, but hopefully not just with your arm. but if you do want to learn to draw "curves" which is mentioned, and something you could try. then use the edge of a circular object or ,if you have one, an eliptical ruler. this lesson is more so to get you used to using your whole arm, not yet to really make any complex weird curvy lines with them.

but overall you did what was asked on the lesson, very confident with your strokes! good job! but i do see some fraying on both ends on those lines, you seem to have resolved that as time passed by however. varrying line lengths are also a good plus.

moving forward, if you intend to do this exercise again, stick to simple, straight curves.

TL;DR : confident but still some fraying. and refrain from doing swirls, instead try simple and straight curves

L1E2:

good job on this one, i see that is slight arching, as in the lines are a little bent on some of those. but it is to be expected, a bit of undershooting and overshooting. but you always hit at least one point of the line, good job! overall you did what was asked.

try and push your pen to the opposite direction when making those lines, so that they are more straight.

L1E3:

good job here as well. i don't see mistakes that can be critiqued here. maybe just a bit of arching here and there. but overall you did good!

L1E4-6 (funnels) :

okay here's where there might be some issue. you've drawn through your elipses, good job! overshooting and undershooting those edges are a challange of course, so not hitting them is no big deal.

you also draw them very confidently, maybe a little too much as i see some "flying" lines on your planes.

which, one of those planes does have an odd circle that doesn't touch one side, but that seems to be an exception and not a rule. so that's okay.

but if your arm is getting tired don't force yourself to make more lines,lay your hand down and take a breather, maybe even stretch. you could also just be spinning your hand a bit too enthusiatically, if so, then slow it down slightly.

however, you don't add much or even any variation with your elipses. all of them are very much the montonous potato shapes. try and play around with them! do more circular shapes, or even extremely sharp ones, and make the slanted or rotated slight at an angle. because even on the pages with the slanted slopes you seem to really insist of making those longitudal potato shapes by forcefully fitting them in place. on top of that all of your elipses are very straight and aligned with the axis of the page itself. as the lesson mentioned, each section should contain a different variation of elipse exercise.

L1E7-10 boxes

good job on the plotted presectives. on the rough prespectives i see that you superimposed some of those lines. please refrain from doing this in the future especially on the 250 box challange. however since it isn't the point of the lesson that should be alright. but now that you are aware of it, don't repeat the same mistake in the future, all your lines should be done in a single brave, and confident stroke!

apart from that most of your boxes seem alright except for one of those boxes in the final panel you did where you messed up the alignments of the axis, it's alright but be sure to keep it in mind moving forward!

your rotated boxes seem okay to me, you seem to have not rotated some of the boxes on the top right quadron but that's alright because most of the other boxes seem to be at least somewhat rotated.

your organic prespectives are a bit messy, but that is to be expected. and yet again, you have superimposed your lines. you have also seemed to refrain from drawing boxes that overlap, you shouldn't have done that because it actually helps to add depth if you draw boxes that cut through each other and overlap. they look very messy, but that is okay, because the purpose of the exercise is just to get you thinking about 3d space.

as a final note don't be afraid that your lines are undershooting or if they miss the shot, it's completely natural and okay. if your intent was to add line weight, what you should have done was rotate your pen to spew out more ink as you stroked, not superimpose the line.

when a line is drawn, a line is set, there is no changing it, you can't do anything to fix it, so don't try to! even if it's just slightly off, or super off, let it be. the purpose of the lesson is not to make good looking boxes, but to learn how to draw them, and that is done by messing them up! possibly 250 times over! that is, after you go and finish

you'll get used to drawing straight lines that hit the mark after a while. so don't worry too much that you're messing that up right now.

as of now however, i do believe you can benefit greatly from trying to draw a more varied types of elipses.

Next Steps:

i recommend that you redo at least one page of your table of elipses exercise, this time, try and add more variety to your elipses by having them slightly slanted on the panel, shrink and grow in size following the slope make them more "fat" and ball like elipse to the mix. they will serve you well on the next lessons!

https://imgur.com/a/JO01W5j the image i've attached is a demo as to what i mean by "variety of elipses". it doesn't need to be exactly like that, it's just a demonstartion as to what i mean, you can do your own thing so long as they follow the idea of having slightly slanted elipses, fatter elipses and ones that grow and shrink in size.

also, avoid repeating what you did for the second left row of your first elipses exercise (L1E4)

optional:

the following is not neccsarry but i do feel you could get some things out of them. so if you really want to, you could also:

  1. try and add another funnels exercise but this time with the ones that have varrying width. this is to get you more comfortable with drawing a more variety of elipses.

  2. redo a page of the organic prespectives exercise and draw them overlaping each other.

number 2 is pretty redundant , but i do recommend you at least give number 1 a thought or two.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
4:22 PM, Friday July 7th 2023

Hi,

Thank you so much for your detailed and insightful critique.

1.I can see what you are trying to say here and yes indeed there needs to be some variation in elipses. I have attached the link for Elipses table.

https://imgur.com/a/Rgp7cws

Please go through it and suggest any improvements if needed.

Thanks in Advance!

3:16 AM, Saturday July 8th 2023

forgive my latency i have not been able to reach my devices recently.

definetly an improvement from the previous submissions. if you were to revisit this exercise as a warm up in the future i suggest that you keep each panel to the same type of elipse until the space can't occupy it anymore.

there is visible variance in the types of elipses you draw and it's great that there are more round ball like shapes in there.

good job on these keep it up!

Next Steps:

move on to the 250 box challange

practice elipses on warm ups

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2:54 PM, Saturday July 8th 2023
edited at 2:56 PM, Jul 8th 2023

Thanks a bunch for your help!

Also, can you suggest how will I get other 2 agreements?

Like, do I need to put up special request in other channels or It will automatically pop up in discord chats?

edited at 2:56 PM, Jul 8th 2023
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