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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:03 AM, Tuesday August 25th 2020

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I had started to notice most of my mistakes on the Organic Perspective. It was the hardest challenge besides of course the rotated boxes. My greatest problem was catching myself going back over a line, or not quite getting the angle correct. Quite a few times I also drew my second line at 90 degrees instead of over the 120.

One thing I'm still having quite a lot of trouble with is straight lines for medium length. I'll get a bit of wobble at the end as my arm can't quite reach it. It's too short for my shoulder, and then my wrist takes over and makes a small wobble every now and again.

I have noticed quite a lot of improvements, especially with being able to draw my circles much more accurately now after these lessons, and had a great time learning the vanishing points. Which was actually my favorite part of the lessons.

As a note, I'm using a Pigma, Micron 05 for all of these.

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12:53 PM, Tuesday August 25th 2020

Hey JupiterPulse! Let's get started:

  • So Lines; as far as this part goes, you did good. Your lines are mostly straight, and even though you did have trouble, you seem to have a pretty good grasp of it. You already pointed this out yourself, but you have a few instances in your exercises in general where you draw a line at the wrong angle, or was drawing over it again. An easy fix to this would be ghosting over where you want the line to go before actually placing pen to paper (remember, confidence is key!). Other than that, this section was done well!

  • Next, Ellipses; no noticeable problems here; if I was really being nit-picky then I would say that the ellipses are a little wobbly in general, but you and I both know that with practice it will get better.

  • Finally, Boxes; your lines in the Rough Perspective exercise are more wobbly than the rest of them, so they aren't as aligned with the horizon as they should be, but that's something to work on as more of a warm up. Also, some of your boxes tend to lean towards your vanishing point as well, so that's something to keep in mind, too. Your organic has its perspective problems as well, of course, but it's nothing that can't be improved upon with time and practice.

Overall, you did some good work! Hope I helped!

(P.S. I didn't write as much as I usually do; you're pretty good at pointing out your mistakes. Are you self-taught as well? Either way, I think it's good that you can see those things, and a little critique from time to time doesn't hurt either! Keep on improving!)

Next Steps:

250 Boxes Challenge

It's long, and its no joke, but it will help you get better with perspective and how boxes sit in a 3D space. (Also, as a reminder, make sure to practice ghosting/super imposed lines as a warm up every so often among other things so that you can get better!)

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1:30 PM, Tuesday August 25th 2020

Thank you for the feedback!

I've always self judged everything I've done. Art doesn't seem to be any different. Before coming here I tried to do characters, but wanted to get fundamentals more that I'm taking it much more serious. So I spend a lot of time going over my own studies marking things in a different color on my problem areas for improvement and then spend a bit of time practicing those. It was the same here, I've spent time doing extra ghosting and line practice, especially after the boxes.

Which speaking of, I noticed my lines were much worse off on the boxes and I know it was due to me being very nervous on if I was doing it right or not, much of it being a confidence issue just for those. That's also really to do with medium sized lines, I'm still really really "uncomfortable" doing them, as I can't quite get my elbow to do the work yet, wrist and my shoulder work well for short and long, but my arm just isn't quite there yet.

Again I really appreciate the feedback, having an outside eye really helps!

-250 Box

I was looking at this next and already planning it out to start tomorrow, I'm going to take a break and just do some fun stuff since I'm doing this and a course on Character design at the same time. Looking to do probably 12 or so boxes a day so I can finish it up in 2 weeks. And the ghosting is something I'm now practicing on my tablet as well, Trying to get an idea of my natural line, so I can just turn and get the idea much better and then develop it a bit further.

Sorry if this is a lot of text.

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