These pages were mostly done over a month or two due to me just not consistently drawing like I wanted to. I finally think I'll be able to draw consistently so my improvement will be evident. That maybe is why my pages may fluctuate in quality. Thanks in advance to whoever critiques this!
Hello, Mazex. Congratulations for completing the Lesson 1 homework. Here's your review:
Introductory remarks:
Unfortunately you've chosen to do the homework in a pad or notebook with binding. that's already going to make your life harder, because you're supposed to turn the paper sheet to findthe best attack angle for every line you make, and you need space for your hand and wrists to move undisturbed. Additionally, the kind of binding wobbles and bends the work area to tis will. You'd be better off with loose copier paper from now on.
LINES
Your initial lines fray too early and are wobbly. Although you've correctly taken your time to position the pen right at the starting point of the line. The ghosted lines following are quite fair, although the search for accuracy has hit your confidence. It's better to miss the point than to draw a so-so line. I suggest when you do the ghosted lines again in your warm-ups, you do some longer ones. The ability to draw a long straight lines is going to be as important as a short one, which are hard too using big muscles. Again, in the ghosted planes, the line quality was dimished and the lines are rather wobbly.
ELLIPSES
I think your ellipses in planes are confident but you would have benefited from drawing in a flatter undisturbed surface. The accuracy is not there but that's not as important right now. The tables are hit or miss, with lots of them looking uneven or having gone though less than twice, maybe a rotation and a bit more. But you've done a good job fitting in the available limits, both in the tables and in the funnels, the later being an improvement over the former.
BOXES
The plotted perspective looks like what it should look like. the rough perspective, though, I feel you haven't challenged enough the exercise, drawing your initial squares too close to the vanishing point. That misses the point of understanding that sometimes lines don't need to be accurate with the VP to represent acceptable perspective. And again, the ghosted lines in it have a so-so quality. The organic perspective is ok enough. The rotated boxes are not great. You decided to hatch only some boxes, then left the rest blank. But more imporantly, your boxes are not rotating. The boxes in the axis are describing a curved line, and you ended up with a flat panel of front-facing boxes, slitghly affected by barrel distortion perspective.
Closing:
I honestly feel your choice of medium has affected the exericses and prevented you getting the craft involved in some of the line making, not leaving you ready to move on to I'm going to ask you to find better, loose paper and retry some of the exercises. You won't be able to tackle the 250 box challenge until you get with the swing of things a bit more, and you won't be able to do it in binded paper notebook.
Next Steps:
I'd like you to do, in loose printer paper:
2 pages of ghosted planes, reading carefully the lesson part about how to ghost, and applying it to the planes. do it relaxed and with confidence.
2 pages of ellipses in ghosted planes (in the ghosted planes you just did). same, read about ghosting the ellipses in the lesson and take our time.
1 page of rough perspective. read the instructions carefully. put the horizon line in three different height, put the VP in three different spots, draw the initial squares (using the ghosting method) as far as you possibly can from the VP, and then do the depth lines no loner than 1,5 cm. you can ghost from the VP to find the points. finish the exercise then as instructed in the lesson
Remember to turn the page again and again for every stroke you do, finding the best position to do that specific line.
Don't redo the rotated boxes right now. is a hard exercise that is sort of design for students to fail to some degree. you'll get better at boxes with the challenge. And you'll have to re do it at some point as a warm up anyway.
The copy paper definetly felt more liberating to use. I had much more control and space to move my hand around and make more quality lines. Near the end of my third revision page my hand was starting to feel irritated so my lines don't look really good.
I definitely see an improvement in the line making. The only con is that sometimes in the search for accuracy to stop right on the mark or the fear to miss it might be affecting your confidence, making the line dubious. For the purpose of this, it'll be better a firm line that overshoots or misses the mark than one one that midline started the change or arch or become dubious when ti looks like it won't make it.
The ellipses are on par with the ones I had seen already, but this time they don't look like you had to fight to draw a third of them. For the most part they use the allocated space and you've gone only twice through. You also havent bailed if they weren't goign perfect. They look pretty good for now. Just the few of them that become distorted or wobbly, same as before; better a smooth ellipses off the marks than one you draw with fear.
You've had another go at the rough perspective, and although the line making is rushed in a fair bit of it, is comparable to that of other students, and you've leant the point the exercise is trying to make.
Next Steps:
Now that you've practiced the ghosting line and ellipses, which are the basic tools of the trade of the whole lesson, on loose paper, you've been able to compare with what was off before, and you've gotten an extra round of practice in this lesson, I see no reason not to mark the submission as complete and send you on your way to the 250 box challenge.
Remember that you'll have to keep practicing portions of the exercises of the whole lesson from now on as warm up to help settle the skills.
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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