Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

11:30 PM, Sunday September 12th 2021

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5:54 PM, Monday September 13th 2021

Hi! Let’s take this one exercise at a time, shall we?

Starting off, your superimposed lines are looking great. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. You may consider practicing some more arcing ones, now – they come in handy later. The ghosted lines/planes look solid, too. I notice some hesitation at the start of some lines (you’re likely taking too long lining up your pen), but the ends of them look solid. Do try to taper a little less though, if you can help it.

Moving on, the table of ellipses exercise looks nice. Your ellipses are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through. Some of them show some hesitation in their first rotation, likely because you’re stressing out about committing, but then finding your groove as that seal is broken, but that’s not quite right. To avoid discovering your line halfway through the drawing process, there’s the ghosting motion. If you’re not sure of what you’re drawing, then you’re certainly not ready to draw it. Continue ghosting, and, when you’re confident, then commit. The ellipses in planes are a solid improvement in this respect. They do a good job of respecting the bounds of their frame, while maintaining their prior smoothness, and roundness – you’ve got your priorities straight here. The funnels look quite good, too; I’m pleased to see how big some of these are!

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.

The rough perspective exercise shows some good improvement throughout the set. 2 things, however. 1, you should be drawing each line once, and only once. This is regardless of how it turns out. 2, you should make an effort to have your lines stop at the correct place (i.e., the end point). It’s okay if they don’t consistently do this now, but you should have this nailed by the end of this lesson, the box challenge at the latest.

The rotated boxes exercise is well done. It’s big, its boxes are smooth, and properly rotating. If you’re not 100% confident that you’ve got it, don’t stress; as you progress through the box challenge, you’ll learn certain things that will fill in these blanks you’ve got – right now, we’re just creating them.

For the organic perspective exercise, it seems like you’ve not plotted start/end points for your lines, but rather simply extended them arbitrarily. This is incorrect. All lines need start/end points, because all lines are drawn using the ghosting method (first step of said method: plot start/end points). This hasn’t been much of a problem for you, however. The solid increase in size, and consistent, shallow foreshortening, ensure that your boxes flow as intended.

Next Steps:

Nice work. Consider this lesson complete, and move on to the box challenge. GL!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
11:26 PM, Monday September 13th 2021

I'll keep in mind that i should only lay down one line and not redo them, as well as my tapering issues. I'll definitely be doing more warm ups.

I'll make sure to make sets of lines project to one vp in the 250 box challenge instead of them being random by using the ghosting method.

Thanks a lot for the critiques!

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