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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

6:24 AM, Thursday September 10th 2020

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Hello,

Im happy to have finished the first Lesson of draw a box.

I had my troubles here and there but over all i think its pretty decent.

most problems i had was drawing everything from the shoulder, mostly small lines got wobbly even when i ghostes several times. as sone as my pen touch the page is started wobblying.

And yes sometimes i draw a second line over the first, because the first was to bad. I simply cant look at stuff that looks so unsymetric, it triggers my brain.

thanks for watching over it.

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10:57 AM, Monday September 14th 2020

Greetings fellow Brawler!

I will be offering you a guiding hand! Hopefully, we can correct some mistakes (if you've made any). Let's have a look!

Lines

  • Superimposed Lines - Yes, the first lines look a bit wobbly. It may take some time for you to warm-up that shoulder. However, I can see that your lines got better! There are a few lines I can see that a have a bit of fraying at the start, but you corrected this as you went on, nice job!

  • Ghosted Lines - Well done here, you seem to be hitting the mark spot-on!

  • Ghosted Planes - Most problems i have with the both diamonds in the middle. its hard to guess there central line."

-Don't worry about this, you don't need to guess the center line, just try to put the mark from the starting point to the end point. As to your wobbling that you mentioned. In my opinion it happens primarily when you start to doubt yourself and your mark, sweeping in a clean strike results in no wobbling at all. If you have spend some time ghosting through your mark, put the pen down without hesitation (almost as if you were ghosting another time, but actually drawing, this worked for me).

Note: I can see you did a lot of the exercises above the amount assigned. Just keep this in mind. You can still return to the exercise and do it as a warm-up later.

Ellipses

  • Tables of Ellipses - Ellipses are drawn 2-3 times over and are kept relatively within bounds, good! You didn't have to do another page, your ellipses look good ;-).

  • Ellipses in Planes - Same here.

  • Funnels - I wanted to mke the funnels better as the first one, so i did this exercise more then once." As I said, do not grind. Yes, I can see that minority of them are wobbly, but this is normal, especially for the smaller ones.

Boxes

  • Plotted Perspective - Well done! In my opinion a waste of time, who can not draw with a ruler?" They are not meant to teach you how to use a ruler. They are there to introduce and solidify the concept of perspective and how parallel lines converge.

  • Rough Perspective - I have to ask, did you do this with a ruler? In the first two windows of the first page the boxes look like they were made with a ruler and on all the rest the face of the boxes pointed towards the viewer looks like it was made with a ruler too. However, it was meant to be freehand. For that matter, I am asking for a revision of this exercise, one page is enough. Also, don't correct your lines. No matter how off they miss their mark, don't correct them.

  • Rotated Boxes - This exercise is meant to throw you to the deep end of the pool. I recommend revisiting it once you're done with the 250 BOX CHALLENGE or later.

  • Organic Perspective - Pretty nice job on the boxes themselves. However, I can see your lines are getting a bit wobbly. As I said, don't doubt yourself, don't push yourself too much to nail the end point. Concentrate more on the mark itself. You're trying to build confidence and believe in yourself. Accuracy will improve over time.

Good luck Brawler!

Next Steps:

I am requesting a revision of the Rough perspective exercise. Reply to this critique with one page. After that I recommend the 250 BOX CHALLENGE.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
6:56 AM, Wednesday September 16th 2020

Thanks for watching over my stuff so fast.

i mean im a really selfcritical beeing, i think you noticed that pretty fast.

Requested Rough perspective exercise: https://imgur.com/a/RFS3gKV

Lines and Request:

The wobbling is still happening. I filled a hole page with strips to figure out what it is.

Sure, a lake confidences is involved. but it also doesnt feel right, like the way i hold my pen and execute the movement and i noticed that even when im ghosting iam woobling. So i guess that my shoulder work is still not accurate enough. I will try to figure it out on my own doing warmups.

Grind:

I mean, yes i did some more pages but Grinding from my perspective would be doing the same thing over an amount of 3 times more then needed. I just wanted to have a page where an experienced person could see i got the idea of the lesson.

But its good that u mentioned i can use this as warm-up and i will do that.

Ellipses:

Just trying to accept the compliments.

Boxes:

  • Plotted Perspective: alright got it

  • Rough Perspective: Yes i did the frontside of the box with a ruler, that was my mistake i misread the homework.

  • Rotated Boxes: i think when i would have done this a second time it would look a hole lot greater, but i didnt want so redo it so close to the end of lesson one, so i didnt. xD

  • Organic Perspective: I will try my best.

Have a nice life stranger and thanks :]

8:15 AM, Wednesday September 16th 2020
edited at 8:17 AM, Sep 16th 2020

Good! The boxes look pretty solid and your marks are hitting the vanishing point pretty steadily. Thus I am marking the lesson as complete.

Grinding: Yes, I understand it can be quite unpleasant looking at your work not come out the way you liked it. The first time I did the Rotated Boxes, it looked horrible. However, after completing the 250 BOX CHALLENGE, which I am pointing as a recommendation, I revisited the exercise and found myself understanding it much clearer than the first time. Reviewers can see whether you understand the lesson or not even if the page doesn't look perfect. After having gone through the lesson and receiving a critique themselves they know what stuff you should be aiming for and whether you actually are aiming for them. There is even a little reminder of this while critiquing: The point is for them to understand what to be aiming for, not to produce perfect work. So as I said, you can produce good work with the right aim without it being perfect.

Wish you a nice day and good luck on your journey!

Next Steps:

I recommend tackling the 250 BOX CHALLENGE.

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
edited at 8:17 AM, Sep 16th 2020
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