Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

10:41 PM, Wednesday July 8th 2020

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2:26 AM, Friday July 10th 2020

Hi Scantrose,

Your Superimposed Lines are well done. Not wobbly, frayed on only one end, and fairly straight. For your Ghosted Lines, it's hard to tell which dots are supposed to be marking the ends so it's hard to gauge accuracy. But by your Ghosted Planes your accuracy's improved a lot more, so you're good.

Your Tables of Ellipses start off sketchy but tighten up a lot better by the end and into your Ellipses in Planes. Make sure that you're drawing through ellipses no more than 2 to 3 times; it's especially noticeable that you're overdrawing in the Funnel exercise. There's also... not enough varied Funnels with different lengths. Or funnels, really. And it looks like you're drawing with a ballpoint pen instead of a fineliner. You might have to redo this one.

Your Plotted Perspective is good. Again, box size variation is key, but you got the general gist of the exercise.

Your Rough Perspective is... well, rough. It looks like you're unsure of what you're doing so your lines are all wobbly. Remember that the width and height lines have to form perpendicular lines; all the front and back faces will be perfectly straight rectangles or squares. The depth lines, the ones "moving back" in space, should all aim towards the vanishing point as best as possible. Your correction lines extending from them should stop at the horizon line and not pass through; that way you can see how accurate you were without cluttering the page. You might have to redo this too.

You gave the Rotated Boxes your best effort and you got the general idea, so good job. Same thing with your Organic Perspective. You'll get a lot more experience with drawing boxes once you move on to the 250 Box Challenge. But before then, I'm going to ask that you redo two pages before moving on.

Next Steps:

This should be easy enough: redo one page each of Funnels and Rough Perspective keeping the advice I gave in mind. Once you do that, you're all set for the 250 Box Challenge. You got this.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
9:44 PM, Friday July 10th 2020

Hi! Thank you very much for your review.

Here's the link: https://imgur.com/a/eMZuLLN

And yes, I did with a ballpoint pen because my fineliner wasn't working properly for some reason, but i found another one.

I'm unsure about the rough perspective, it still seems wobbly, but i tried my best.

3:00 AM, Sunday July 12th 2020

Wow you got back to me fast. Good job! Everything looks a whole lot better. Rough Perspective is definitely wobbly still but you're slowly getting the hang of it. Next thing I'd focus on is angling the depth lines better towards the VP. Aside from that, I think you're good to move on to the 250 Box Challenge!

Next Steps:

Alright, next up for you is the big one. While you're drawing all those boxes, I highly recommend that before each drawing session, as a warm-up, that you practice two to three Lesson 1 exercises for 15 minutes total. Try to do ones that you feel a little rusty on, that way you stay sharp and retain what you've learned. It's going to be tough, but keep a steady pace and it'll all work out in the end. Good luck.

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3:18 PM, Sunday July 12th 2020

Ok, thank you for your advice and review!

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