Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

4:27 PM, Thursday October 29th 2020

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2:43 AM, Friday October 30th 2020

Hello! I also just submitted some work for lesson 1 and got some feedback and I see some similar things you are doing that I also got some specific feedback on. Let me preface with that I am very new to drawing, so I will try to compare to that feedback I got and see if there is anything we encountered in a similar way.

Superimposed lines: It looks like you are maybe going a little to slowly on marking the lines as they look a little wobbly. I think this can be similarly solved to the feedback I got for my lines arcing a little bit, and that is to make sure you are drawing from your shoulder and try speeding up your stroke on the paper a wee little bit.

Ghosting Lines: This is a similar story to the superimposed lines, focus on drawing from the shoulder and try speeding up the stroke a wee bit. This might solve some of the arcing I am seeing there on a few of those examples you have there.

Planes: Your planes actually look pretty good, so you might actually be more confident with the shorter strokes on ghosting, so maybe try practicing ghosting with longer strokes.

Elipses Table: Alot of your more oblong elipses look really smooth, the more circular ones look a little more uneven, but I see some good ones in there and your spacing looks great compared to mine (which I had mine floating alot more). I'm not personally sure what feedback to offer on evening out your less oblong ellipses. Are you drawing from the wrist on those circular ones at all by chance? That would be my only suspicion. I personally found doing some of the elipses were more smooth with combination of drawing from the shoulder/elbow and kind of using the side of my palm to stablize (I'm not sure if this is good advice or not but it kind of worked for me).

Elipses Planes: Wow, these ones look very smooth. Good job here!

Funnels: These also look very smooth, good job! It looks like some of the funnels you drew were kind of hard to keep symmertical over the axis, but relative to eachother I think they look good.

Plotted Perspective: Good construction here, nothing to add from me.

Rough Perspective: I also struggled on this one and some issues with contruction. The best advice I could give based on the ones that turned out well frome me is to focus on ghosting the lines that go towards the vanishing point more to plot the back end of your initial rectangle. It helps get the perspective more in line. Then just follow follow the criteria of two point perspective in this case that your horizontal and verticals will be paralell to help you place those corners. I'm not sure if I worded this well, but am happy to elaborate more if needed.

Rotated Boxes and Organic Perspective: I struggled witht his one personally and don't feel like I am the best person to provide feedback on these ones as I dont have the full picture yet on how to improve these exercises for myself yet. But I assume some upcoming lessons and working on the 250 box challenge will prove helpful!

Also, one big tip of advice in general: Its ok to make mistakes, and you should avoid redrawing lines. I saw this in a couple places and I am super guilty of this myself. The person that critiqued my Lesson 1 put it really well: "Here I noticed you repeat some of your lines. In this course you should avoid it. This will teach you to make peace with mistakes and the form will appear more stable. It's okay if a line didn't come out accurately, this will improve as you practice.".

Overall, I would say to put some extra work in on your super imposed lines and ghosting for your warmups if you aren't as a next step and maybe practice some less oblong elipses inside one of those elipses tables.

Good Job and best of luck on your progress!

Next Steps:

Super Imposed Lines, Ghosted Lines/Larger Planes for warmups before starting 250 boxes challenge work.

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7:51 AM, Friday October 30th 2020

Thanks for the feedback. I use the super imposed lines, ghosted lines/larger planes for my warmups everyday. I have improved in making my lines more confident and drawing from my shoulder more now. I really appreciate your feedback and I will work even harder on my weakness that you pointed out.

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1:43 PM, Friday October 30th 2020

RPMFX gave you a nice critique (I'm just gonna repeat in my opinion the biggest problems you should work on first) and its hard to judge at the beginning if you're inexperienced or doing something wrong.

The main thing I would strongly emphasize as he said it is to draw confidently from the shoulder and prioritize smoothness and confidence over accuracy. The elipses are especially wobbly. The second biggest problem would be with the boxes as it seems you didn't actually think where they should go. Imagine the line from one point to the other ghost it and actually look where your arm is going and adjust accordingly. I noticed it myself the difference when you think you are ghosting to adjust and when you actually ghost to adjust.

Otherwise good luck.

1:59 PM, Friday October 30th 2020

thanks you for the advice! I will work on making my lines more confident and using my shoulder all the time.

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