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8:45 AM, Friday April 26th 2024
edited at 8:48 AM, Apr 26th 2024

Hello Ma, I'm Fantastically Mundane (or @Canoe on Discord) and I'll be taking a look at your lesson 1 submission.

Let’s start with your superimposed lines and they’re off to a good start. You follow a consistent trajectory and execute your lines with confidence. There's some fraying at the end of your superimposed lines, but that's expected at this point. The curvier lines exhibit more fraying than your straighter ones. The important thing right now is that there is minimal fraying at the beginning of your lines which shows you're paying attention to where your pen starts. The same applies to your ghosted planes. You don't always hit your end point, but they're looking confident and that's all we're asking for at this stage. You're also putting in the correct amount of work per plane, treating every line as a 'unit of work' rather than just focusing on the whole plane itself. There's a noticeable arc in all of your lines. This just comes down to how our arms work, but consciously arcing in the other direction can help reduce this. It's not too drastic, but maybe something to look out for. I've already noticed an improvement between your first and later exercises. Two things of note for your lines exercise. First, the lesson asks for two filled pages of superimposed lines and I can only find one page. Did the second page get left out or did you only do one page? Next, I find it difficult to evaluate your ghosted lines exercise. You've heavily doodled on the page which makes it difficult for me as a reviewer to critique your submission. Also, I can't discern any concrete start or end points for your lines. These would be two dots on the page that you connect with a ghosted line. This is to help determine how accurate your line placements are and weather you can hit your intended mark confidently. Sometimes I can find a dot from which you've started, but not often. In lieu of these, it kind of looks like you've just randomly placed lines on the page without thinking about their positioning.

Moving onto ellipses, overall your ellipses look smooth and confident. You don't always draw through your ellipses at least two times, that's something to keep in mind for the future. For the tables of ellipses exercise, I'm not quite sure you've understood the instructions completely. Our goal is to try and draw ellipses touching the top and bottom of the box, using those boundaries as a set of goals to fulfill rather than randomly placing ellipses willy-nilly. We also want to keep our degree consistent when drawing out ellipses. Refer to the homework instructions here. Some tables do this well, like the top left tables of both of your ellipse pages. However, most of the other sections of your ellipse tables have ellipses in random degrees and with seemingly random placements. I can see that you're doing well in packing each table full with ellipses, carefully trying to keep them from overlapping too much in regards to each other, but it looks like some of your ellipses have been placed randomly in the table. We should be trying to fit a clearly defined goal from the get go! Your ellipses in planes show a much better understanding of how to fit an ellipse into a clearly defined goal. The planes themselves are well executed and I can see your effort in fitting each ellipse snugly into each plane. Some ellipses haven't been drawn through, but you're definitely getting better with practice. Again, you've heavily doodled on one of your submission pages. As a reviewer, I would ask you to please refrain from that in the future as it renders your work harder to make out among the noise (I appreciate the hearts though

EDIT: Huh, for some reason the website deleted the second half of the post? Oh well. to summarize, please freehand the rough perspective exercise and take another look at how the correction method should be employed. Also, please draw through all of your boxes in the rotated boxes exercise.

Next Steps:

Please revise the following:

  • One (1) page of superimposed lines (might as well get to two pages, right?)

  • One (1) page of ghosted lines - make sure to clearly define your start and end points so we can more effectively critique your work and draw with confidence!

  • One (1) page of tables of ellipses - take another look at the instructions regarding degrees and use the boundaries of your table to help define where/how you want to place your ellipses.

  • One (1) page of rough perspective - don't use a ruler except for the corrections portion, free hand it!

  • One (1) page of rotated boxes - yes, it's probably mean to ask you to do this again, but there's a lot for you to gain by drawing through your boxes. If you'd like, feel free to make your boxes larger so you don't have to draw as many.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 8:48 AM, Apr 26th 2024
12:15 AM, Sunday April 28th 2024

Hello there!!! Thank you very much for the critique, im very grateful for it, well about the superimposed lines, i confess, just had done two but i ended up getting confused and posting one by accident ???? regarding the rest of the criticisms, i tried to follow the best i could, (although im have difficulty abt draw nice ellipses) i will be practicing to obtain a satisfactory result!! here is the link with some exercises redone ( https://imgur.com/a/wYvrNyQ )

6:15 PM, Sunday April 28th 2024
edited at 6:19 PM, Apr 28th 2024

Hello again Ma,

You second submission shows a lot of growth! Your super imposed lines look even better and the arcing present in your forst submission has almost vanished. The same applies to your ghosted lines. They're smooth and confident. Although you don't always hit your mark, continued application of the ghosting method throughout this course and/or your artistic career will no doubt increase your precision. About your ellipses, not being able to draw them "nicely" is secondary to what we're looking for, and that's fitting them within a clearly established goal. Your work demonstrates this very well with each ellipse neatly tucked in with the rest, following a defined degree, angle and size. Finally, let's look at your rotated boxes and here, the difference between your first submission and second is night and day. You've drawn through your boxes which allows us to better interpret how they sit in relation to one another in 3D space. Furthermore, each box is veering more towards converging towards seperate vanishing points, which should be expected when the boxes are rotated. The boxes one the fringes get a little further away from this, but overall, I'm very impressed with your revisions and have no qualms about marking this lesson as complete. Well done!

PS: I remember you mentioning on Discord that you already did the 250 box challenge, right? If so, then there's no need to redo all 250 boxes. Feel free to post the work you've already done so you can get your completion badge.

PPS: I also remember asking for another page of the rough perspective exercise. Your work here shows enough understanding of how boxes should converge that the omission isn't too bad.

Next Steps:

Move onto the 250 box challenge.

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete, and 2 others agree. The student has earned their completion badge for this lesson and should feel confident in moving onto the next lesson.
edited at 6:19 PM, Apr 28th 2024
1:02 AM, Monday April 29th 2024

Hii again!! Thank you very much for your critiques and tips for corrections, they were great to revisit some lessons that i had already forgotten some details about lol, ANYWAY ty² /hugs

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