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8:54 PM, Saturday March 28th 2020
Hey there, joach, sorry for the delay in receiving your critique. We have quite a back log at the moment and we're trying our best to keep up.
Starting with your super imposed lines, I see you are doing your best to keep the lines confident and smooth with some attempts more successful than others. Make sure you keep in mind to be using your shoulder and focusing on getting smooth lines over accuracy right now. Looking at your ghosted lines you are appearing to be pretty hesitant with your lines and using your elbow a lot and slowly steering your lines instead of using your shoulder for confident execution.
Moving on to your ellipses, you are doing a good job drawing through them correctly and the grouping of them improves throughout your exercises as you gain more mileage. With your ellipses in planes you are hit or miss when it comes to getting them to sit snugly in the bounds of the planes and could do more to make contact with the edges of the planes. Your ellipses in tables are better in terms of packing them together to leave no room for ambiguity and at this point it's just about mileage and building up your confidence. With your funnels exercise, it appears that juggling all the different constraints - funnel bounds and minor axis alignment caused your confidence to falter slightly, understandably. Just keep practicing drawing ellipses with your shoulder and using the ghosting method and try to work on aligning your minor axes to a predetermined angle as it is an important skill to develop.
Your rough perspective boxes are a little shaky. I see you trying to get your horizontal lines parallel to the horizon and your verticals perpendicular, and some boxes were more successful than others. It appears you aren't using the ghosting method or your shoulder here so try to step back, take a breather and calm yourself, then use the ghosting method before executing your lines. Each line drawn should be carefully planned and executed with the same amount of effort, so a box should take you 12 times longer than a single line to draw. In terms of checking your converging lines you did not follow the instructions because you were supposed to extend the lines you already drew to see where your lines would've ended up, not where they were supposed to go, which is obviously the vanishing point. One last thing of note is regarding re drawing lines. The short version of it is - don't do it. It is a bad habit and when trying to correct lines we think we messed up we are only brining more attention to the viewer's eye. Instead make sure each line is carefully planned and ghosted before executing your lines confidently.
Now let's take a look at your rotated boxes. First and foremost, the only goal here for students is for them to submit a complete attempt, which you did. There were some times you got messy in your hatching, but overall I can see you tried your best to keep things neat in the midst of complexity. Now in terms of the mechanics of the exercise, there are a few things you could improve:
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You could have packed your boxes tighter together to leverage adjacent lines lines as perspective guides
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You were not rotating your boxes so much as skewing and shifting them. So give this gif some more study and try to internalize how the rotation of the box is driven by the motion of the vanishing points.
Overall you pushed through, though, and that is all we ask for at this point. So good job.
Finally, let's take a look at your organic perspective. Your compositions are lively and full of motion, and the overlapping of your forms serves to make the boxes feel as if they exist in 3D space together. You are continuing to redo your lines, so please refrain from that. Your second page is much more successful due to the scaling of your boxes to make them appear as if they recede into the background. Your perspective is still developing and will no doubt improve after the 250 box challenge. One last thing to note: your lines are arcing very sharply in this exercise indicating severe use of the wrist, so watch out for that.
Next Steps:
Before I move you on, I want you to do one more frame (not page) of organic perspective, making sure you are using your shoulder and not redrawing lines. I want to make sure you are doing things correctly now before you do 250 more. Respond to this comment with your work, and we will go from there.
7:25 PM, Sunday March 29th 2020
hi,
Thanks you very much for your answer, it is motivating me to improve myself, i just finished the organic perspective you asked me to do,
joachim
12:36 AM, Monday March 30th 2020
This is much better. There is still some pretty severe arcing in your lines so keep working on using your shoulder to get your lines straighter
Next Steps:
You are now ready to go forth and battle 250 boxes. Take your time, execute your lines with purpose and with the shoulder, and we'll see you after you are finished!
Sakura Pigma Microns
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.