Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

8:15 PM, Friday May 8th 2020

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Complete Lesson 1 Homework. I know there is room for improvement, however I tried to follow Uncomfortable's advice and not let the mistakes make me redo assignments over and over until I thought they were 100% perfect. Please review and let me know if you're seeing fundamental issues or if there is a glaring hole that I need to focus on. Thanks in advance!

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5:11 PM, Saturday May 9th 2020

Lines are looking pretty good overall, though they are a bit wobbly.

In these exercises, you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy.

A wobbly line will always be worse than a confident line, no matter how off the confident line is.

If you take a look over the ghosted lines notes you'll see the levels of lines:

Level 1: Line is smooth and consistent without any visible wobbling, but doesn't quite pass through A or B, due to not following the right trajectory. It's a straight shot, but misses the mark a bit.

Level 2: Line is straight, smooth and consistent without any wobbling and maintains the correct trajectory. It does however either fall short or overshoot one or both points.

Level 3: Line is straight, smooth, consistent without any wobbling. It also starts right at one point and ends exactly at the other.

As you can see, wobbly lines aren't mentioned, which means that they would be worse than level 1.

On ghosted planes, you are also not plotting all of your lines. Before drawing any line, you should draw first a starting and ending dot, so you can ghost properly.

Ellipses are too pretty good, though they do have a bit of wobble too at times. Remember that here as well you should prioritize smooth confident ellipses over wobbly accurate ones.

Boxes are looking p good overall, though they have some issues:

-You're having trouble keeping width lines parallel to the horizon line and height lines perpendicular to the horizon line on the rough perspective exercise, this is perfectly normal as it's quite hard. But be sure you keep it in mind.

-On rotated boxes, some of your boxes weren't actually rotating, careful with that, this mistake is explained here.

-You're repeating some lines that went wrong. No matter how off a line is, don't correct it, keep going as if it were correct.

-Lastly, on organic perspective, you're adding lineweight tracing over your previous lines. Don't do that. When adding lineweight, do the same as in the superimposed lines exercises. Ghost and do a confident line over the previous one you had. Focus on confidence, not accuracy. Don't add lineweight to inner lines neither, only the silhouette.

Next Steps:

Overal pretty good job, keep in mind the things I said, and go on to the box challenge, good luck!

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8:22 PM, Saturday May 9th 2020

Thanks for the excellent critique! I'll try to keep it all in mind as I move on to the box challenge

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