Good job for completing lesson 1. Overall, you did a pretty good job but this wouldn't be a good critique if that was all I said was just that haha.
Lines
For the super imposed lines, I like how you tried to fill up as much space as you can and drew lines with different lengths but, why didn't you draw any curves? Next time you do this exercise in the warm-ups, practice drawing curves; it'll benefit you in the long run.
For your ghosted lines exercise, your lines were smooth,confident. I did see some overshooting but that's normal.
Not much to say in the ghosted planes exercise, you followed the instructions carefully and did a pretty good job.
Ellipses:
You did a good job on your ellipses in planes exercise. You had a nice variety of planes to draw your ellipses in so you got a nice variety of ellipses and you tried to fit your ellipses within its boundaries. You did have a bit of a problem with overshooting and undershooting the boundaries but that's normal.
In your table of ellipses, you tried your best to keep the ellipses close together. Some of your ellipses were undershooting the boundaries , so next time you do this exercise in the warm-ups, pay attention to that.
Your funnels are good but sometimes your degrees are a little off, so keep an eye for that too.
Boxes:
In your rough perspective exercise, your lines were very wobbly compared to your previous exercise. Remember to use the ghosting method, draw with your shoulder and lift your pen when you reach the end point, don't slow down.
In the rotated boxes exercise, your lines were much more smooth. Good job on finishing the rotated box exercise.
In your organic perspective exercise, your lines were smooth but I don't think you fully understand what you have to do. In this exercise, we want the viewer to think the boxes are the same size and just that some are closer to us while others are farther away. We do this by drawing the boxes smaller on the end of the line, that you want to be farther away from the viewer, and gradually increasing the size of the boxes (ex: small-> big-> bigger). But, the sizes of the boxes were inconsistent (big -> small-> big ->big), so it breaks the illusion.
Another thing I noticed was that your boxes were outside of the line, we want the boxes to stay on the line like beads on a string. This also makes things organized and much easier to see, if there's boxes flying around everywhere, anyone who doesn't know what you're trying to accomplish, would be left confused.
Alright that's it for the critique, I hope this helps you.
Next Steps:
Please redo 2 pages of the organic perspective exercise with everything i said in mind. I recommend watching the video and the text about this exercise before you restart the exercise.
Hi there. I greatly appreciate your critique. Thanks a lot, you are awesome!
About super imposed lines: i actually did curves and waves too as my homework for Dynamic Sketching, just decided not to include it here at first bc overdoing homework isn't recommended by Uncomfortable.
Ellipses are the hardest for me overall, I'm still making a lot of errors with them.
As for the boxes, rough perspective was made after a week of the break, w/o ghosted lines warm-up, so yeah, thats why it screwed quite a bit. Also, it was made with ball pen, i didn't have that much control at that time.
Rotated boxes were damn hard, i literally started to understand how to draw things later on.
Finally, i made a revision of organic perspective as you suggested, here they are (SI curves and waves included too):
Many thanks for your time!
Sincerely, Eugene.
Wow good job! You did a little bit too much of curves....just a few curves are alright.
Your revisions on organic perspective are great! It seems like you understand the exercise now
Your ready to do the 250 challenge, it's a bit hard but you can do it!
Make sure you do atleast 15 min of warmup everyday to get that muscle memory
Good luck!!
Next Steps:
move on to 250 box challenge
This is a remarkable little pen. I'm especially fond of this one for sketching and playing around with, and it's what I used for the notorious "Mr. Monkey Business" video from Lesson 0. It's incredibly difficult to draw with (especially at first) due to how much your stroke varies based on how much pressure you apply, and how you use it - but at the same time despite this frustration, it's also incredibly fun.
Moreover, due to the challenge of its use, it teaches you a lot about the nuances of one's stroke. These are the kinds of skills that one can carry over to standard felt tip pens, as well as to digital media. Really great for doodling and just enjoying yourself.
I would not recommend this for Drawabox - we use brush pens for filling in shadow shapes, and you do not need a pen this fancy for that. If you do purchase it, save it for drawing outside of the course.
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