Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:00 PM, Monday November 2nd 2020

1. Lines, Ellipses and Boxes - Google Drive

1. Lines, Ellipses and Boxes - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Q0m7AhQ0RKOrr7Ubmm1jbahqijkQdTFX

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Hello there Uncomfortable and teaching assistants,

I finished this homework some time ago, but while I was working on the 250 boxes challenge I kept running into issues. And I want to do this as seriously as possible. Then I thought, yeh I should totally send this for official critique. So here I am.

Thank you for setting this whole project up and hope to hear from you soon! ^.^

Magna

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8:24 PM, Monday November 2nd 2020

Hi! I’ll be looking through this~

Your superimposed lines look good- smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. The ghosted lines/planes look confident enough, though I’ve a few things to point out, here. First, be sure to plot some start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes. In regards to your start/end points, actually, see if you can make them a little smaller. The idea is that a perfect line should swallow them both. Be careful not to correct an incorrect line- if it’s wrong, it’s wrong. Finally, spend some more time experimenting with a bunch of different drawing speeds- I have a feeling that you’re going a little too fast. Try out a few, and go for the one that gives you the most accurate, though still confident, lines.

The table of ellipses exercise looks good, your ellipses being smooth, and rounded, but they’ve been drawn through an arbitrary amount of times, it seems. 2-3 times, ideally 2, is the recommendation. Try to lift your pen off the page at the end of them, by the way, rather than flicking it off. The ellipses in planes exercise looks good, though I’d perhaps spend a little longer ghosting each ellipse, to give their rotations their best chance of matching up. The funnels look good, if a little misaligned. Remember that lining up your ellipses to the minor axis is the entire point of this exercise, so take your time ghosting each one, not forgetting to rotate your page as necessary.

The plotted perspective exercise looks clean- good job. The rough perspective exercise has some issues, certainly. For starters, the linework isn’t quite as confident as I’ve come to expect from you, though what you’re doing here is essentially no different from what you were doing in the ghosted lines/planes exercises: drawing a single line, from point A to point B. The convergences, also, are rarely on point. If it wasn’t clear, you’re meant to ghost a line from each point of the front face to the VP, and place a point in the course of it. The first point is free, but the other 3 need to be placed in such a way that when you connect them they form lines that are parallel/perpendicular to the horizon. Remember, also, that there’s no need to stick to your original guesses. In fact, it being perfectly fine to ignore a point that you’ve found to be unsatisfactory, you’re doing yourself a disservice if you do. Solid work on the rotated boxes exercise. The rotation is a little slight, but your boxes are snug, and big. The next time you attempt this, spend a little longer thinking about each line, and how it behaves, both by itself, and also in relation to the ones around it. Finally, the organic perspective exercise is well done. The lineweight is perhaps a little overt (a single superimposed line is enough, usually), but the boxes look good. Their consistent increase in size, extreme scale, many overlaps, and shallow foreshortening all aid their flow immensely. Well done, all around.

Great submission, overall. Head on over to the box challenge.

Next Steps:

250 box challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
9:25 AM, Tuesday November 10th 2020

Hello Benj,

Thank you for feedback :)

Doing these exercises I also noticed I go a bit too fast, not just with drawing (self discovery with drawabox hehe). So I'll try to actively work on that.

For the rough perspective exercise I had a feeling something went wrong but couldn't put my finger on it. I misunderstood one of the steps, but after your explanations I get how it was supposed to go.

Thanks again and sorry for taking so long to view the critique, will be more vigilant with checking my account moving forward.

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