Hey there! Great work on your Lesson 1.
Superimposed Lines: Continue working on making sure you start at the same point. On many of your lines, you have fraying on both sides. The goal is to be careful such that the viewer can tell which side is the beginning side. That can still be distinguished, and it can be improved upon. One thing I find that helps is to put the pen down right where I start.
Ghosted Lines: Great work on this exercise. There are a couple of lines that curve unintentionally (not counting the curves at the bottom), so make sure to still make confident strokes, even if it might miss the point. The primary goal is still confidence, and then you can focus on accuracy.
Ghosted Planes: Similar to ghosted lines, great work! Continue being confident in your strokes
Ellipses in Planes: The ellipses looks really nice. I can tell that you drew through them, so keep that up. There are a couple that cave into themselves, so still be confident in how you are drawing them. If you need to, ghost the ellipse before you draw it.
Table of Ellipses: Great job on varying the sizes and orientations of the ellipses. This is key in the future for when you want to make different figures. There is one panel that has floating ellipses, so I just want to remind you to make sure they touch the confines of the cell they are in.
Funnels: Great work on this! The ellipses were drawn through, and you did excellently on making sure to use different degrees.
Plotted Perspective: You did an excellent job here, too. It looks like you grasped the concept of two-point perspective well.
Rough Perspective: It looks like you got better at aiming for the vanishing point, so great work on that. Make sure to continue to be confident in your strokes, even if you feel like they aren't hitting where you want them to hit. There are several lines that are wobbly, so confidence will help them look more steady.
Rotated Boxes: This is a tough exercise, and you excelled at it. Good on you for drawing through your boxes. Continue making confident strokes.
Organic Perspective: You did well in varying the sizes of the boxes, as well as decreasing the sizes to portray perspective well. In future warm-ups, I challenge you to incorporate more overlapping boxes. I see a couple of instances, but doing it more (especially in the beginning boxes) can sell the perspective even more.
Overall, nicely done. Continue working on confident strokes. You are free to move on to Lesson 2.
Next Steps:
Continue to Lesson 2
First thank you for your time and your critique.
Afterwards I have a question about your remark about the Ellipse in planes:
"There are a couple that cave into themselves, so still be confident in how you are drawing them. If you need to, ghost the ellipse before you draw it."
I already using the ghosting method for that and with the one i did after for warmup i still got the "cave into themselves" issue, is it just an issue than would solve only with practice or maybe it's more about the speed of drawing or maybe something else ?
And for the organic perpective the overlapping one where not planed so i'll try it for the next one
Hey, thanks for being patient. If that is the case, it might just be something that gets better with practice. I remember that I used to have an issue with that, and sometimes I get those "caved-in" ellipses occasionally. However, if you are ghosting and being confident with your strokes, then I think you will get better to where that issue becomes less frequent.
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