Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
10:20 PM, Friday July 28th 2023
There are two funnel exercises instead of only one sorry!
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1:25 PM, Wednesday August 9th 2023
Hi. that's fine if you simply misread the amount you were supposed to do. just remember not to grind.
I highly recommend getting printer paper. Sketchbook paper kills fineliners.
I hope this critique will be of use to you.
For your lines
Superimposed lines are drawn confidently. Fraying on the other end is expected. For the longer lines arcing when doing these in your warm ups, make a conscious effort to arc to the opposite direction to stop the arcing.
You did well on ghosted lines. The accuracy will come in time.
Onto ellipses
Your markmaking on the ellipses in planes exercise improved. Remember to keep the ellipse smooth and confident, even if it misses the intended mark entirely. Prioritize confidence over accuracy.
You did well in the tables of ellipses exercise. Remember not to draw through the ellipses more than 3 times though.
Don't deform the ellipses to fit within the boundary, once you put down the pen, go through with the mark, even if it misses the intended mark entirely.
Your ellipses in the funnels exercise are within the boundary, but the minor axis (line through the middle) needs to cut the ellipse in 2 symmetrical halves, I can see on the second page you took note of that actually. you did well.
Boxes
You did well on the plotted perspective exercise, although, you didn't draw through some of the boxes.
For your rough perspective pages, they're looking really, really good. Just remember not to repeat lines. once you put down a line pretend it's correct even if it's off, it'll help you in the long term.
Your page of rotated boxes show a good understanding of perspective. This is a really hard exercise.
Good job on the organic perspective pages. Some boxes do have diverging lines, but the 250 box challenge will come in to help with that.
All of these will go into your 10 - 15 minutes warm ups pool.
I wish you lots of patience on the 250 boxes challenge. and if you need help with anything the discord is extremely helpful.
Next Steps:
250 boxes challenge
6:49 PM, Wednesday August 9th 2023
Thank You!
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Printer Paper
Where the rest of my recommendations tend to be for specific products, this one is a little more general. It's about printer paper.
As discussed in Lesson 0, printer paper (A4 or 8.5"x11") is what we recommend. It's well suited to the kind of tools we're using, and the nature of the work we're doing (in terms of size). But a lot of students still feel driven to sketchbooks, either by a desire to feel more like an artist, or to be able to compile their work as they go through the course.
Neither is a good enough reason to use something that is going to more expensive, more complex in terms of finding the right kind for the tools we're using, more stress-inducing (in terms of not wanting to "ruin" a sketchbook - we make a lot of mistakes throughout the work in this course), and more likely to keep you from developing the habits we try to instill in our students (like rotating the page to find a comfortable angle of approach).
Whether you grab the ream of printer paper linked here, a different brand, or pick one up from a store near you - do yourself a favour and don't make things even more difficult for you. And if you want to compile your work, you can always keep it in a folder, and even have it bound into a book when you're done.
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