Haven't picked up drawing since over a decade ago since an art teacher told me I just couldn't draw. Decided to change that.
Followed the instructions as closely as possible, took my time and didn't redo any exercises as described. Struggled the most with ellipses I think. Any feedback, critique and next steps is hugely appreciated.
Hello! im really happy to read that you decided to change the fate that your teacher imposed to you, I'll check your work!
Lines
Superimposed Lines
Overall It looks pretty solid, really good, only thing I would say is that I see some arching in some lines, make sure you are using your shoulder as a pivot, if you are still getting arch then try to arch consciously to the opposite direction while drawing.
Ghosted Lines/Ghosted Planes
All looks really good here, your lines looks both confident and precise, which is really hard to pull off in lesson 1, congratulations! you are overshooting/undershooting sometimes, but that's okey! you'll get better at that whit time!
Ellipses
Tables of Ellipses
Your ellipses looks wobbly and kinda imprecise, some of your ellipses are not touching the bounds, other ones are out of bounds, next time try to ghost your ellipses more time, the fact that you are getting 2 ellipses considerably different even tough you drew trough your ellipses it may be caused because you didn't get a muscle memory totally develop just yet, and remember, prioritize confident over accuracy, don't hesitate
Don't worry about your mistake so much, this is totally normal!!
Ellipses are very tricky, this doesn't mean that your exercise is wrong on the contrary, you followed instruction very well, you'll get better whit time!
Ellipses in Planes
Nothing to add here, second page looks better
Funnels
Overall they looks great and snug, just keep in mind that the minor axis should always be cutting your ellipses in half
Boxes
Plotted Perspective
I can see that you understood the point of this exercise!
Just bee careful whit your paper, I see that you drop a little bit of water in your page
Rough Perspective
You did well here!
Just keep in mind that you shouldn't correct your lines if they are wrong, just pretend they are right and keep going
Rotated Boxes
This looks pretty good!
Though this is not part of the exercise I need to say that if you are going to hatch your lines don't connect the lines in the hatching
other than that, your boxes are rotating and looks solid, and snug, you use your boxes to draw all the other ones
nicely done!
Organic Perspective
Good work here too!
I see some parallel lines, you should avoid that, but don't worry you will tackle perspective in depth in the 250 Box challenge
Also, I would say that the boxes that are closer to the point of view should be a bigger, but that is nothing that important
Overall you did a great work!
If you keep training the abilities and mindset that you acquire in lesson 1 you'll get better and better, just don't stop training and learning, keep doing some of these exercise as warm ups, ellipses in planes will come in handy to practice your lines and ellipses try to superimpose the lines of the planes.
You can go to the 250 Box challenge now! remember to use the exercise of this lesson as warm ups, good luck!
I hope to see your 250 Box challenge submission in the future!
Next Steps:
You can go to the 250 Box challenge now! remember to use the exercise of this lesson as warm ups, good luck!
I forget to say something about superimposed lines
I noticed that you didn't try any arch nor wave, you should really try those!
good luck, and have a nice day!
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