Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
12:06 AM, Saturday January 15th 2022
Hey there. Just heads up, I don't have a seperate scan for my ghosted planes before the ellipses were added if this is an issue I can do some more.
Thanks
Hello and welcome. That’s not an issue at all – that’s how most students submit them, actually. Let’s see, then.
Your superimposed lines look good. They’re smooth, and properly lined up at the start, but not always of a consistent trajectory, so be mindful of that. Your ghosted lines/planes look quite confident, also, and I’m pleased to see that you’re plotting start/end points for all of your lines here.
Moving on to the ellipse section, the table of ellipses exercise looks mostly good. Your ellipses are smooth, rounded, and properly drawn through, but they don’t always have a goal. What I mean by this, is that they don’t always strive to touch all available sides of the plane (as they should), but rather simply float inside of it. How, then, if you don’t have a clear thing to aim for, are you ghosting these – is the question, and the reason why we insist on clear goals, because with clear goals come clear pass/fail criteria. The ellipses in planes look good – they maintain their previous smoothness/roundness, despite these more complicated frames. The funnels, too, are well done, though sometimes drawn through a little much. Remember, 2-3 times is the recommendation; ideally 2.
The plotted perspective exercise looks clean.
The rough perspective exercise shows some nice improvement throughout the set; by the end, its convergences are in a good place. Its linework, on the other hand, is not. The bit on the front faces seems to be intentional lineweight, which, though not necessary, is fine. There’s some instances near the back, though, where you’ve clearly redrawn a line with the intention of correcting it, which is not something we encourage.
Save for that issue (remember that each line is to be drawn once, and only once, regardless of how it turns out), the rotated boxes exercise looks good. Its boxes are big, snug, and properly rotating, and you’ve done a decent enough job with their far planes and back lines, too, though of course, the box challenge will be sure to take them further.
Finally, the organic perspective exercise is nicely done. Here, especially, be mindful of automatic reinforcing, because a thick box will pop to the front, and if it’s one of the ones that’s meant to be in the back, well, there goes the illusion we’re trying to convey, but nonetheless, this is mostly good, and the boxes flow as intended.
Next Steps:
I’ll be marking this lesson as complete, so head on over to the box challenge. GL!
Thanks for the critique! Line weight and quality is something im really trying to improve on, I appreciate you calling it out. Also my urge to go back over something i dont like, over and over and over.....anyway. I'm trying to break old habits with 'draw a box' as I pick up a pencil/pen again. Working in pen is also really great because it really takes me out of my comfort zone.
And so onto the 250 box challenge....also known as the crucible.
Thanks again
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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