Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:43 AM, Friday February 12th 2021

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Throughout the Series of exercises. I notice that i'm impatence when i am doing my exercises and that impatiences are more likely the answer to my frustration because i do things in a bit "fast" manner. Because if that, i loses my control and spatial reasoning but i still sustain my confiedence throughout the exercises. Draw a box is a learning program after all and the fact that i notice this, is maybe the result of my desire to learn more and maybe do things (outside of drawing) a little bit on a slower pace and calm

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7:15 AM, Monday February 22nd 2021
edited at 7:21 AM, Feb 22nd 2021

Hello! I will critique your Lesson 1 Submission. Before we start, you should do your best to practice doing the exercise in a focused manner. Rushing things is a sign that you're not really immersing yourself in the exercises, your focus is diverted in finishing the exercise rather than understanding the concept behind the concept, kinda like the saying "Focus on the journey, not the destination" shenanigan. With that aside, let's start. We'll divide your submission into 3 sections to organize the feedbacks that I'll give.

Lines Section

Superimposed Lines

Fraying is only visible in the latter side of the line, lines are also not wobbly. Good job in this one! You clearly understood on how to use the shoulder to execute smooth, confident lines.

Ghosted Lines

Lines are clean and smooth. Almost all of them hit their corresponding end points too. You really understood the concept behind ghosting eh? Anyways, in the upcoming future, I suggest that you gradually expand the distance between the points, this is to further train your mind to get used in using your shoulders in making large marks.

Ghosted Planes

Good job on this one too! Lines are smooth and clean, though some of the bisecting lines fell a little bit short. This can be resolved by employing ghosting before executing the said lines. 

Ellipse Section

Tables of Ellipses

The ellipses are clean and not wobbly, and some executed with only 2 revolutions of pen. Some of the ellipses also didn't touch the sides of the ellipses besides them, or the boundaries. This is fine don't worry, the important thing is that you managed to create ellipses that are not wobbly and not very deformed, and that you ghosted them before making them. I suggest varying the axis of your ellipses more if you do this exercise as a warm-up in the future.

Ellipses in Planes

I'm quite amazed that you managed to made ellipses that hit all the four sides of the plane. Good job on this one really! Though you should practice ghosting ellipses more in order to create a more 'tight' ellipse without the fraying as can be seen in your exercise. `

Funnels Exercise

Nice funnels, foreshortening is present, and ellipses are clean. (You'll learn more about the foreshortening of ellipses in Lesson 2)

Boxes Section

Plotted Perspective

Nice boxes.

Rough Perspective

Those are some fine boxes you made there. For a beginner, not bad. Though I noticed that in some boxes you went back in order to fix the lines, never ever do this as this can break the immersion of 'solidness (or 3D-ness)' and makes the drawing looks messier too. Leave the mark as is even if it's a mistake, work on what already have.

Rotated Boxes

Rotation is present, good job!

Organic Perspective

You did a great job creating boxes in here. Not a sight of very deformed boxes, and perspective is present (small = far, big = near). Though I noticed that the problem discussed in rough perspective section is present here too, though minimal. Nevertheless, you nailed this one.

Well to wrap things up, you did a great job in Lesson 1! The next thing to do is to celebrate (depends on you) and prepare yourself for 250 Box Challenge. You should also do the exercises presented here as a warm-up in your future drawings & lesson exercises (just pick whatever you want and do them for 15 minutes before actually drawing.). Anyways good luck and have fun in the 250 Box Challenge!

Next Steps:

250 Box Challenge

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edited at 7:21 AM, Feb 22nd 2021
1:01 AM, Tuesday February 23rd 2021

Thank you for the critique, but i have one question "what does varying the axis (Tables of Ellipses) actually means?" is it like stretch the ellipses to make far more smaller degree?

Other than that thanks i notice my mistake and i will learn how to overcome it (especially with the repeating lines) Thank you so much!

2:21 AM, Tuesday February 23rd 2021
edited at 6:13 AM, Feb 23rd 2021

Oh it's just the orientation of the ellipse, I noticed that you tend to make ellipses that are in slanted position (ya know, the line that looks like it'll fall down or 45 degrees?) . The axis refers to the orientation of the ellipse, you'll learn about it more in Lesson 2 (sorry forgot to include it)

edited at 6:13 AM, Feb 23rd 2021
11:18 AM, Tuesday February 23rd 2021

thanks for the information

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