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8:15 AM, Monday April 29th 2024
Hey there, I'm Meta and I'll be your TA today, so let's get started.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, you're doing a great job executing your lines confidently, however make sure you're taking the time to line your pen up properly with the start point to prevent fraying on both ends of the line.
Next your ghosted lines and planes are looking similarly confident. One thing I will note though is that it's often better to overshoot slightly than it is to undershoot.
Ellipses
Onto your tables of ellipses and these are off to a great start. Your linework is confident for the most part, you've selected a good variety of shapes and sizes of ellipses to practice, and you've kept them squeezed up tight against each other, particularly on the second page.
Next your ellipses in planes are looking good, you've made clear attempts to hit the four sides of the plane while remaining confident and not over-focusing on accuracy. I'm also glad to see consistently you are drawing through your ellipses 2-3 times.
Finally, your funnels are off to a good start in terms of alignment to the minor axis as well as line confidence. That said, you've left significant gaps between your ellipses, which is a mistake as outlined here - we're aiming to have them lined up tightly together. Make sure you're reading through the entire exercise page before you do these, as they often contain common pitfalls to avoid.
Boxes
Onto your rough perspective and you've made fairly successful efforts to keep the horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. You've correctly applied the line extensions and your perspective lands in a pretty normal margin of error.
Your rotated boxes are off to a good start - you're keeping the gaps between the boxes tight and consistent, which has given you good cues about where to place the next one. You didn't quite manage to capture the full range of rotation, tending to follow the vanishing point of the box you previously put down, however this exercise is intended only as an introduction to certain concepts you will explore further throughout the course.
Finally, you're starting to get some variation in the size and rotation of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise, though you could definitely push it further by experimenting with the scale between the smallest and largest boxes as well as trying to overlap the ones closest to the viewer. The boxes themselves are diverging a bit in places, however like the previous exercise, this one is simply an introduction to the concepts you'll explore in depth in the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge.
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Faber Castell PITT Artist Pens
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.