Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

4:18 PM, Friday June 21st 2024

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THank you for this amazing course. I hope my work is up to mark, it has improved a lot since I started with rough lines. I've created this on my ipad in the procreate app, hope that's alright! Would love to hear your thoughts on these so I can improve or move on to the 250 baks challenge!

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4:21 PM, Sunday June 23rd 2024
edited at 4:31 PM, Jun 23rd 2024

Hello, I will be offering my critique of your homework.

Before I start, there's no problem sending lessons done digitally if you're not going for official feedback (although drawing on paper is recommended), just make sure you turn off stabilization.

Superimposed lines

It seems good. The lines are very smooth, continuous and without fraying on both sides.

You forgot to submit a page for this exercise.

Ghosted lines

You didn't send the page for this exercise either.

Ghosted planes

His lines are still good, with continuous tagetory and great precision.

Table of ellipses

Your ellipses seem to be slightly shaky, but it's not a big problem as their smoothness improves over the next few exercises.

They are drawn twice (nice).

It looks like you are actually ghosting, and trying to make the ellipses touch properly.

Ellipses in planes

In general, they are smoother than before and I see that you made an effort to make the ellipses meet the 4 sides of the planes.

Funnels

Your ellipses here are not so bad and you even align them with the central axis well.

Plotted perspective

Not bad. However, you forgot to add a vertical line to finish a box (I marked it here).

Rough perspective

When extending the lines, you extended them towards the vanishing point, but the correct thing to do is to extend them towards the horizon line (following the direction that the mark is traveling, and not correcting it).

As you did not send the other page of this exercise, do this exercise paying attention to what I pointed out.

Rotated boxes

It's great.

Some boxes follow the same vanishing point (here).

Organic perspective

It seems good. You will improve your boxes over time.

Next Steps:

1 page of superimposed lines

1 page of ghosted lines

1 page of rough perspective

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 4:31 PM, Jun 23rd 2024
2:22 AM, Wednesday June 26th 2024

Hi Adley, hope you're awesome!

Thank you for the detailed feedback, I really appreciate it; I had my stabilization turned off because the goal here to improve, not just go through the exercises but to improve my hand-eye coordination and shoulder/arm movement.

I went ahead and did the missed exercises on paper, the difference was significant but I found it to be much more easier to adapt to compared to a smooth screen.

You can view the pages here: https://imgur.com/a/bMDcRUK

Thank you again for the detailed feedback, I look forward to hearing from you. :)

4:46 PM, Wednesday June 26th 2024

This looks great. The lines are smooth, there is no fraying on both sides in the overlapping lines exercise, you applied the ghosting method and made the line extensions correctly. Good job.

Don't forget to apply the 50% rule and add these exercises to your warm-up pool.

Next Steps:

250 boxes challenge

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10:07 AM, Wednesday June 26th 2024
edited at 4:46 PM, Jun 26th 2024

ignore this message, I made a mistake

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edited at 4:46 PM, Jun 26th 2024
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