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12:47 PM, Wednesday July 8th 2020
Lines
Lines start pretty confident and straight, good job! Here the issues I can catch:
-When starting a line, you should carefully place your pen on the start of each line so only a maximum of 1 end can fray. Plan each stroke you make carefully.
-Another thing is that you aren't drawing starting and ending dots on each line you draw. On the ghosted planes for example, there are some lines where you didn't place it. Be careful with that as it's pretty important to apply the ghosting method.
Ellipses
Ellipses are looking pretty good too, there are a few instances where you have some wobbly lines, but in general they're pretty confident.
On the tables of ellipses you got some that are floating; the ellipses in the tables need to touch the top and bottom lines as well as the ellipses at their sides, be sure you're aiming for this when you're drawing them.
Boxes
In boxes you've been doing a good job as well, here are a few things:
-On rough perspective, you seem to have trouble keeping some height lines perpendicular to the horizon line, and width lines parallel to it. I know it's hard, but be sure you keep it in mind while attempting the exercise.
-On rotated boxes, you're missing some boxes, check the page of the exercise again to see what I'm talking about.
-In general, you're repeating some lines. No matter how off a line is, don't repeat it. Leave it as it is and keep going to the next as redoing it will make the drawing messier.
-I think there are some lines on these exercises where you might not be plotting your lines; just like in the ghosted planes, you need to draw starting dots and ending dots before drawing any line so you can properly ghost it.
-And lastly on organic perspective, try to make the boxes bigger and get smaller as they get away from the viewer. Doing overlaps helps to show which boxes are in front of which boxes, and you can help to clarify this by drawing a superimposed line on the silhouette of boxes that overlap, to add lineweight.
Next Steps:
First of all, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the box challenge.
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more throughout the course.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster. The new system ordering submissions also makes that the more agrees your critiques have the higher you'll be placed in the queue of critiques, which will improve your chances of getting critiques faster as well.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
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