Good work! keep in mind that this is my first critique, so I might have missed some things.
Lines
Lines seem all good. For Superimposed Lines, there's only fraying on one end, which is good, and they mostly accurate. Good job, especially on the arced lines! I found these really hard to do. Mine were a total mess.
Ellipses
Ellipses need some work.
For Ellipses in Planes, your ellipses are well done. They lie for the most part within their respective planes, they lie within the circle and are only drawn over 2-3 times.
For Tables of Ellipses, some of the medium-to-large ellipses are either not completely filling the space or having some overlap with neighboring ellipses. The circular ellipses seem better.
For Funnels, I'm not really sure what happened. A few of the funnels are well done, such as the ones in the top-right corner. Most of them, however, have really bad overlap. The one in the bottom-left corner is the worst offender. You should definitely do another page of funnels. On the bright side, good job on the minor axes! They should cut the ellipses into 2 symmetrical halves, and you've done so.
A trick that really helped me when drawing the ellipses was thinking about their contact points with the bounding/box and other ellipses when ghosting. Here's a quick guide I made to demonstrate what I mean: https://imgur.com/gallery/axi1Vsj (excuse the horrible ellipses, I'm still working on mine as well!)
Boxes
Everything seems mostly alright here. I'm far from an expert at boxes, but here's what I noticed.
For Rough Perspective, your lines have a good bit of wobble to them. Remember, the goal is not accuracy but confidence in your lines. Ghost your lines. Before doing a page of boxes, doing a few Ghosted Planes is a great warm-up. The only other thing is that you've forgotten to finish is constructing the back face of the bottom-most box on the first page... or is it just infinitely long?
For Rotated Boxes, good job! This one was really tricky for me, so please take everything I say with a grain of salt. For your outermost boxes on the axes, you should rotate them more than you have. You're close to not actually rotating your boxes. As you go out from the origin, the size of the boxes on the page decreases much faster than one would think it would. Compare your outermost boxes to those in Uncomfortable's example homework.
Great work overall! Just review your ellipses, and then you'll be set for 250 boxes.
Next Steps:
One more page of Funnels. Make sure that you are ghosting through all their contact points with the bounding/box and other ellipses. Doing this will ensure that they fit snuggly together with no gaps or overlaps. Optionally, if you feel like you need more practice with ellipses, you can do another page of Tables of Ellipses.
Hey thanks for the really awesome feedback!!
Funny story (well not really) about the Funnels. If you look at that page again, you'll see that the date is at the bottom and upside down. So I actually started at the top doing it wrong, I thought I was meant to tightly group them, then realized half way through that this wasn't correct :D! So I've done the Funnels homework again here: https://imgur.com/gallery/qaQKc8n
Regardless I do find these ellipses difficult! When drawing over them 2 times it's so hard to make it look like a single line!
For Rough Perspective, your lines have a good bit of wobble to them. Remember, the goal is not accuracy but confidence in your lines.
Good point! I find especially for lines which are shorter in length it's much harder to control the movement with my shoulder! But you're totally right, I must focus on ghosting and then just commit and be confident and smooth (this is something I'll really focus on during the 250 boxes!)
Rotated boxes yeah I messed that one up, I realized too late that I was really under rotating! During the Organic perspective exercise I felt like I really started to understand it much better the more I did!
Thanks again for the feedback!
Your revised page of funnels looks great; I'd say you're all set for 250 boxes! I've so far done just under 50 boxes, and boy... it's really challenging, much more so than the exercises in the box section of Lesson 1. Just keep going though and you should get the hang of it. Best of luck!
Next Steps:
Next step is the 250 box challenge! You are also now qualified to critique other lesson 1 submissions which is highly encouraged. Here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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