Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:37 PM, Friday May 15th 2020

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Hi everyone! Thanks for having me on your site. I found it about 10 days ago and have worked through lesson 1 and the 250 box challenge. I'd really appreciate your feedback. This kind of thing was really new to me, but I've really enjoyed doing it. Thanks.

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1:21 PM, Friday May 15th 2020

Hey! I'm Tora, I'll be doing your critique today :) So, right into it

Lines - Superimposed lines look good. Ghosted lines and planes, also fairly good, there is maybe a tiny tiny bit of wobble / arcing. When you practice through your warm up, keep in mind confident and straight is priority over accurate.

Ellipses - So, your ellipses suffer quite a bit from wobbling again. Same as the lines, keep in mind that smooth curves is your tip priority, more important than accuracy -- accuracy comes later, with much practice. The same wobbly mistake is present in your tables, planes and funnels, with the funnels being the worst offender. Take these exercises and bring them in to your warmup routine for sure, and focus on smoothness. Additionally, when it comes to funnels, the degrees of your ellipses is a bit off. If you're going to vary degrees, the center has to be narrower, with the openings becoming wider degrees, whereas yours are the opposite. You can see in this section here how the center ellipses are very thin, the outer ones are more circular. Also, there is some misalignment of your ellipses, shown here. With that in mind, I think you would benefit from doing 1 more page of ellipses in funnels, keeping in mind the following: 1) ellipses must be smooth above all else, 2) ellipses must be aligned to the minor axis, 3) ellipses in the center are narrower than those at the openings.

Boxes - Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to be missing plotted perspective exercise here.

I'll move on to rough perspective -- your line quality suffers a tiny bit, but you clearly understood and executed the exercise well. However, there is one major mistake: going over your lines twice. It's unnecessary, even if your line is really off, just keep it, don't draw over it and try to 'correct' it. The only time you would be going over your lines is if you're adding line weight, which should still be very subtle.

Moving on, rotated boxes is looking good! You've captured rotation well, you've got all your corner boxes drawn in there. Some of them suffer from a big of warping, like elongating or squishing, but that's something you'll be practicing in the next lessons. :)

And finally, organic perspective is looking good. The sense of scale is well conveyed, the boxes flow nicely. I will note again -- don't go over your lines twice. Just keep them as you drew them the first time. Often when you try to 'correct' a poor line, you're just drawing attention to your mistake, when in the grand scheme of things it might not have been that noticeable.

Regarding your 250 boxes, you should take a picture of each page individually and post them as a separate submission for review, like you did this one. We can't see your boxes clearly from the first picture, so we couldn't give much review on them. :)

As a final note, you've done a good job here. There are a few kinks that snuck up on you, such as your line quality dropping a tiny bit, or your ellipses wobbling, but I can see you understood the majority of the lesson very well. One more page of those pesky funnels and you should be good to go. Good work, keep going and I'll be looking forward to seeing you in the future lessons!

Next Steps:

1 page of ellipses in tunnels

Then on to 250 box challenge.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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12:50 AM, Monday June 8th 2020

Marking this as complete, if you want to re-submit what's been asked of you you can still do it, just making sure you get the badge for completing Lesson 1

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Marking this as complete, if you want to re-submit what's been asked of you you can still do it, just making sure you get the badge for completing Lesson 1

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