Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
12:43 PM, Saturday August 22nd 2020
Finally finished Lesson 1, it would be nice if someone could critic me. ^^
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2:35 PM, Saturday August 22nd 2020
Hi,
Your ghosted lines excericise looks pretty good, while some of them still have a wobble to them , most look to have confidance behind them, dont worry about hiting the mark, always prioritize confidance over accuracy. Accuracy will come with time and repetition.
In regards to the elipses excercise it seems to me that you are focusing too much on hiting all 4 sides, instead id recomend leting lose and comiting to the movent. This means confidance, dont focus so much on hiting all sides, this, while important, should be secundary to making a confidant elipse, even if it doesnt fit perfectly.
Also dont worry about lines geting messy, this will be a side effect of confidance and confidance comes first always.
Your funnel excercise looks realy good, id just say the same as the others, confidance over accuracy, but its noticable the atention to geting elipses aligned, and this atention to detail will serve you very well in future lessons.
On the rogh perspective excercise the wobble in the line is very noticable, a lot of course correcting. Remember even in an excercise like this, ghost lines and comit, if you miss your mark, you miss it. making mistakes and noting them is a very important part of this course. Dont avoid them, go at them face first.
I realy liked your rotated boxes excercise, the atention to detail i mentioned earlier is very clear here, the corners of your boxes are overall constistant. I have to note that some of the lines seem to be drawn over, this is usually done to hide "mistakes", dont do this, if there is a wobble let it be there, it is telling you to be more confidant, even at the cost of accuracy.
Your organic perspective excercise is realy good, the only thing ill note si to be subtle with lineweight, i know is tempting to make very bold lines, but learning subtelty is also important, try making only 2 pases and working from there and also dont use it to hide mistakes. highligthing, not hiding.
Next Steps:
Id go ahead with the 250 Box challenge, i know its tempting to go for lesson 2, but i cant emphasise enogh how important 250 box challenge is.
I will give some general advice on how to tackle it. DONT RUSH, take your time with the challenge, remember this course is about learning not grinding, 1 box you take 15 mins with and learn something is worth 100 sloppy or distracted ones.
GOOD LUCK!!
3:57 PM, Saturday August 22nd 2020
Thank you for your fast reply,
If i understand correct, i should focus more on getting confident lines and try to avoid correcting them while drawing.
The same goes for ellipses, at first comes the correct fluent ellipse, then the width and height.
Another part you mentioned was the lineweight, i will try to make it more subtlety and carefully.
I will directly start with the 250 boxes and try to think about your words.
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