Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

2:24 PM, Tuesday July 18th 2023

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8:44 AM, Saturday November 11th 2023
edited at 3:29 AM, Nov 12th 2023

Hi Fable! Overall this is a solid submission and most of the mistakes you make can easily be fixed without much mileage so good job! In this feedback, I will mostly point out what you did good & minor mistakes so you can avoid them in the future.

1. Lines

What you did good:

  • Your markmaking in all three Line exercises come out smooth & confident.

  • In Superimposed Lines, you incorporate lines at various length from short to long and even curves as well.

  • In Ghosted Planes, you always plot out two points before connecting them, which is a step that I often see missing in L1's submissions.

Mistakes:

  • In Superimposed Lines, there is a little bit of fraying at the start of lines. It is not as severe as the website points out but in some rows of this page, you can see a few lines start a bit further in than the original starting point.

  • In Ghosted Lines, your plotting dots are bigger than necessary. Touching your pen lightly on the paper is enough to create plotting dots.

2. Ellipses

What you did good:

  • You always stick to the recommended rounds for each ellipse (1 round + 1-2 extra rounds over). The markmaking & shape of your ellipses are also smooth.

  • In Table of Ellipses, you are able to keep ellipses within bounds. Ellipses' degree & orientation within a frame also consistent.

  • In Funnels, most of your ellipses align well with the minor axis. You also incorporate the second variation of this exercise where ellipse's degree slowly increase as they reach either side of the funnel.

Mistakes:

  • In Ellipses in Planes, sometimes you try too hard to make ellipses touching all four sides, which makes them deform. Take the 2nd ellipse at the bottom row of this page for example, you can see the ellipse has a noticeable protrusion at the bottom whereas both top & bottom portion should have the same roundness. Comfy talks about this mistake in this video from 0:45-1:50 so make sure to rewatch it. Another example where your ellipse deforms is in Table of Ellipses - Row 3, Column 2 - Left diagonal frame - 3rd ellipse of this page.

  • In Funnels exercise, you don't properly space out the bound of the funnel. As a result, the minor axis doesn't cut the funnel into two symmetrical halves. Take a look at the top left corner funnel, you can see that the left portion of the funnel is narrower than the right portion.

3. Boxes

What you did good:

  • You manage to keep up the quality of markmaking in all box exercises as all pages have confident linework.

  • In Rough Perspective, width lines & height lines mostly meet their criteria, which is keeping width lines parallel and height lines perpendicular to the horizon.

  • Your Rotated Boxes look pretty close to the final example on the website, which is not an easy feat to do.

  • In Organic Perspective, you are able to show the depth of the scene by making furthest boxes smallest in size and slowly increasing their size as they travel (Though in the rightmost frame of this page, your boxes have consistent size so you should exaggerate the difference a bit more).

Mistakes:

  • In Rough Perspective, you are missing one line for the top box in the rightmost frame of this page.

  • In Rotated Boxes, the rightmost box in the cross section (+) doesn't rotate enough as extending lines of both this box & the box to the left almost overlap.

  • The next point is not actually a mistake, but in Organic Perspective you can add line weight to boxes that appear in front to show overlap more clearly.

Next Steps:

  • 250 box challenge

  • Add Lesson 1's exercises into the warm-up pool

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edited at 3:29 AM, Nov 12th 2023
3:36 PM, Saturday November 11th 2023

Thank you for the helpfull feedback. I will keep these points in mind when doing these exercises as warmup.

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