Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
9:59 PM, Tuesday July 18th 2023
Here is my work through lesson one
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6:17 PM, Wednesday July 19th 2023
Hi,
congrats on completing lesson one, I'll be critiquing your work.
Lines
To start, I noticed quite a bit of wobbliness when you make marks, are you using your wrist rather than your shoulder? https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/2/pivots
You want to draw from your shoulder to create smooth confident marks. You also do not need to worry so much about being accurate, as that improves over time.
I noticed a fair amount of fraying at both ends of your superimposed lines, remember- you want to try to place your pen at the same starting position each time you make a mark here.
Ellipses
Your ellipses in planes work is looking pretty good, however there were only a few instances where the ellipse escaped the bounds of the plane, or was too small and did not touch the sides of the plane. Your ellipses appear to have been drawn through multiple times, and confidently.
Your table of ellipses looks good as well, the only real issue was that in some cases your ellipses were not fitting within the bounds of the table.
In your funnels, the ellipses appear to be aligned with the minor axis, which is good, however, they are all spaced apart- not touching each other snugly. I also noticed that some of your ellipses are not fitting within the funnels.
https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/c0447c15.jpg This is how they should look.
I recommend checking out the homework page again for funnels if you found my explanation inadequate.
Boxes
Your rotated boxes are looking good! Other than the fact that only half of them are finished, the rest are rotating continuously away from the viewer, good work!
In your organic perspective work, I noticed that you redrew over some lines, don't do that. Once you make a mark, that's it, you'll just have to live with it regardless if it's good or bad.
Once again, good work on completing lesson one, before I mark the lesson as complete however, I would like for you to finish your rotated boxes page, and do 1 extra page of funnels, good luck!
Next Steps:
Finish the rotated boxes page and do another page of funnels
11:59 PM, Wednesday July 19th 2023
Hi thank you for taking time out of your day to critique my work It helped a lot.
So I did two of the funnels exercises and finished rotating boxes as you asked me to do. They should be added to my Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes album at the bottom of the page. https://photos.app.goo.gl/wAgodjX8ikUA6y359
For the funnel, I only did another one because I didn't understand what I was doing at first, but I'm slowly understanding what you meant by keeping them snugly.
For the rotating boxes though, I wanted someone to look at my work before I continued working on them, but I gave up on doing it.
The thing that was confusing me the most was getting lost when i was making the boxes. Sometimes when I made a box I would get confused by the line weight and I would start seeing the box in a different angle confusing me. So I started rotating the page for the angles that were confusing me and it helped.
And for my lines I'm still trying to get used to drawing with my whole arm, but I think I'm getting better at it.
4:56 PM, Friday July 21st 2023
Good work! Using your shoulder to draw takes a bit of getting used to, yeah. For what I mentioned about the funnels, I recommend going back to the homework page for it in lesson 1 and reading through it again to clarify some things.
I think you're ready to move on to the 250 box challenge, good luck!
Next Steps:
250 box challenge!
7:09 PM, Friday July 21st 2023
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