Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

3:09 PM, Tuesday August 2nd 2022

Lesson 1: Homework assignment - Album on Imgur

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10:35 PM, Tuesday August 2nd 2022
edited at 10:38 PM, Aug 2nd 2022

Hey Raven, I will do my best to give you some advice!

1. Lines:

  • Your superimposed lines look fine mostly, tho longer ones have a bit of wobble to them, so try to power through with your shoulder. Do not look at the line while drawing but focus on the point where you are aiming for

  • No fraying on the start of your lines and also very few fraying on the end, which is a good thing!

  • On some of the longer lines I can see some arcing, which tells us that you are probably using your elbow, but your shoulder falls a bit short. Try using your shoulder and don't rest your elbow on the table (you can rest it on the table to stabilize, but don't put your weight on it, so it can move as needed)

  • Your lines are also very accurate, but it's better to focus on smooth and straight lines, even if they are off, instead of being super accurate but drawing wobbly lines. It's not much wobbling, but I feel like you could sacrifice some accuracy in order to get them even more straight -> accuracy will come by itself as you draw more

2. Ellipses:

  • It feels like you are stretching/distorting your ellipses to fit them in the boundaries you have set yourself. Try to ghost a perfect ellipse that can be symmetrically be cut in half that also hit's the boundaries and try make it as smooth as possible

  • Good job on doing 2-3 passes on your ellipses, that gives you room for course correction if you don't hit the boundaries on your first pass

  • Your ellipses do tend to fall short of your boundaries. Try not to be afraid to overshoot and actually cross your boundaries, you can still course correct on the second and third pass.

  • Overall you ellipses seem smooth and your degrees seem consistent through the table of ellipses exercise!

  • You can always fit some smaller ellipses of the same degree in the gaps between the greater ones, that is great exercise to practice big and small ellipses at the same time, while keeping the degree the same

  • The funnels exercise looks good. You did a good job dividing the funnels into halves and your ellipses get cut into halves, so good job on keeping them symmetrical! Your orientation of your ellipses follow the axis nicely

3. Boxes:

  • Plotted perspective looks good, but make sure that you fully track down the perspective lines back to the horizon line, so you can actually see that they diverge there

  • Also putting some cross hatching on the biggest surface (or the surface that covers the edge at the back where the back planes meet) can help making your boxes read better. As you are drawing through your boxes this helps the viewer to understand better what's going on.

  • For the rough perspective you did a good job using the "correct line method" by tracing your original lines back to the horizon line to see where you went wrong

  • You actually were pretty accurate with your perspective on the rough perspective as well! Nicely done.

  • However, your lines in this exercise appear to be insanely straight. Did you do those with a ruler? In that case I would advise that you redo this exercise, as you should be doing those in free hand. If you did it free hand you really pulled it off nicely, the smoothest lines in rough perspective I've seen so far. It looks like you drew your boxes and added line weight by drawing over them with a ruler. Don't do that. If you apply line weight you want to ghost over your originally drawn lines (like in the superimposed lines but with ghosting)

  • Your rotated boxes have some boxes that are barely rotating. Try being more bolt and push your rotations way more (https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/d73eea49.jpg)

  • You kept your edges close together, which is a good thing.

  • Overall you did quite well, as this exercise is really hard to wrap your head around

  • For the organic perspective you did not do the required amount of pages. You are meant to do 3 frames of organic perspective per page, but you did it across the whole page, so you need to do some more of those

  • Your boxes look fairly clean, but try varying with your size. Make near boxes really big and further away really small. Add some overlaps of boxes, to give the impression of depth and apply some line weight to the areas of the overlapping lines (not the whole line though)

Overall your submission looks good, your lines are mostly confident and also very accurate. Try focusing more on Confidence instead of accuracy, this will come by itself with time and practice.

You got to do some more pages, though.

Apart from that you did a great job!

Also: consider joining the discord, it's always better to share your experiences and talk to people instead of working in a vacuum :)

Hope to hear from you in discord

Henni

Next Steps:

To complete lesson 1 please submit the following:

  • 1 page of rough perspective without a ruler (only redo this if you used a ruler before, but it's hard to believe you didn't)

  • at least 1 page of organic perspective as described in the exercise https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/18/example

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 10:38 PM, Aug 2nd 2022
3:12 PM, Monday August 8th 2022
edited at 3:33 PM, Aug 8th 2022

Thank you Henni for the critique.

For the rough perspective, except for the front and the horizon line(as instructed in the lesson text) I have not used the ruler for any other lines. I just drew the lines one by one in all the boxes and then finally used the blue ballpoint pen to see whether my lines reach the vanishing point or not. That is all.

edited at 3:33 PM, Aug 8th 2022
11:29 AM, Tuesday August 9th 2022
edited at 11:29 AM, Aug 9th 2022

Alright then, you still got to do at least one page of organic perspective, as I mentioned above, in order to complete your submission

edited at 11:29 AM, Aug 9th 2022
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