The homework was done over a period of more than two months. Critique would be much appreciated as I would really like to add some of these exercises in my practice or warm up routine, so it would be nice to know my shortcomings before moving on to next lessons.
Best regards,
RenaissanceMan01
Hello! I haven't yet got any critique on my homework submission for lesson one, but I thought maybe I can help out anyway.
Lines:
The ghosted lines look great confidence-wise! There are some problems with accuracy, but that will get better with time, so no worries.
The only real problem I see is were the lines don't start at the dot. And I'm seeing this in both the superimposed and ghosted lines. I think this can be remedied just by taking your time to make sure the line starts where you want it to every repetition and don't put your pen to paper until you're sure you've got it.
Ellipses:
In the Table of ellipses exercise there are some problems with consistency and sizing, but this gets better in your second one. In the Funnels I see some problems:
A lot of the ellipses are misaligned where the minor axis is off (top left for example). The minor axis should divide the ellipse in to equal halves.
You're overshooting boundaries (bottom left corner.) I think this could be helped by ghosting the ellipse a little more before executing. (This goes for the ellipses in planes as well.)
Boxes:
In the Rough perspective you're not checking convergence, you're just plotting the lines back to the vanishing point. This is very important to understand, because it is how you will check convergence of all of the 250 boxes further down the road. I'm talking about this section from the instructions:
...extend [your lines] to where they intersect with the horizon.
We are not plotting these red lines back to the VP - just to the horizon line. This will show us a concrete idea of how far off we were.
In Rotated boxes I'm seeing some problems:
The corners are the most difficult, especially as you get all the way out to the extreme corners
Keeping your gaps narrow and consistent is critical to being able to use neighbouring forms as effectively as possible to infer information about space.
Not to worry though: this exercise is made to be hard!
In Organic perspective you're redrawing a lot of lines in your boxes. Don't. If you mess up a line, leave it as is. I know it's hard, I do this myself all the time! Generally, in this exercise things are looking a bit rushed, take your time to plan out each box and each line. Otherwise it's looking good and feels like you understand what to be aiming for.
Hopefully my critique can be of some help to you!
Next Steps:
1 page of the rough perspective exercise where convergence is checked as described in instructions.
Hey, thank you, that was very helpful. I know that my lines are getting better from time to time but ellipses are a weak point, I should put more practice into it. The point you told me regarding rough perspective, I just realized I missed the whole point of checking the convergence, thats on me, I tried that again and read the instructions more carefully this time (I have attached the link of my revision)(https://imgur.com/a/83DJ9G3://). I can see imperfections already in the boxes further from V.P but don't worry, I'll practice more. And the reason I left some boxes in the rotated boxes exercise is because I was going for perfection, didn't want to mess up the whole page, but my bad, I will try to push myself a little further with that.
Once again mate, couldn't have received a better critique, it was very helpful, thanks a lot, i will surely try to fix these points!
Good job! Easy to miss these little instructions, the lessons are surely a lot to take in. Checking those convergences and seeing for yourself how of your boxes are can be a little disheartening but i try to think of it as "failing quicker". Noticing mistakes is the only way to correct them. Correcting them is the only way to develop. Which means failing is the only way to develop. So hopefully we'll both keep failing haha.
Next Steps:
On to the 250 boxes!
Hi! this is my first critique here, i'll try to do my best...
Ghosted Lines: I think it's overall a good job, perhaps some lines are wobbleing, and some of them are fraying on the starting dot, but there a small number.
Superimposed lines: the consistence of straight lines is good, but the starting dots don't have the accuracy needed, above all in page 1/2,but it seems getting better in page 2/2. Curve lines have less consistence, as if they havn't "rhythm" enough, not a bad work yet.
Ghosted Planes: A solid work, in my opinion: lines are draw with confidence, no wobbleing, barely archin lines... Only a few lines completed with a little "extension", or thats what is seems to me
I'm going to finish here, cause I'm just a noob, and I dare no more :)
Hope to help you and goog job!
Thanks for taking some time and looking at my homework, really appreciate it man.
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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