I liked this lesson, but I feel as if I´ve done some things wrong and would like if I recieved criticism for my mistakes. If my drawings are hard to access please let me know, some of the drawings aren´t done in pen and I apoligize for that.
Thank you!
Hello llugaes!
Overall, you have done a fairly decent job!
Lines
In superimposed lines, there is occasional fraying occurring at both ends of the line. Other times you are starting at the same starting point, so just make sure you do this for each superimposed line.
Your lines admittedly start off a little hesitant, where they generally wobble. This is normal as you start off, since you’re working on developing that shoulder muscle memory. Though to note, confidence should take precedence and be prioritized before accuracy. It’s ok that the lines aren’t fully accurate, as it is imperative to first develop the shoulder muscle memory to draw out smooth, confident strokes. So continue to ghost and execute every line with your shoulder. Essentially, a confident stroke that is slightly inaccurate is better than an accurate but wobbly line. With that said, however, I notice some improvement in your boxes, so keep on that path.
Ellipses
Ellipses are off to a fairly decent start with a pretty good share of confident ellipses. There are some that wobble, and other times they turn sharply as you fit your ellipses in their allotted spaces. This causes the ellipses to be misshaped. Just as with lines, focus first on confident smooth strokes. Then work on maintaining its roundedness, and then accuracy last.
Ellipses in the funnel are generally aligned to the minor axis; good job.
You’re mostly drawing through your ellipses appropriately (2-3 times), which is great. There are instances, however, where they are only drawn through about 1.5 times. Draw through each ellipses fully 2 times through (3 is also acceptable, but no more than that).
Boxes
As you continue to go through your boxes, there are some nice confident lines. But there is a fair share of sketchy and repeated lines. No matter how tempting it is to correct an errant line, do not correct or repeat over it to correct it. To help prevent this, take your time with planning with dots and ghosting. The great thing about dots is you don’t have to commit to the very first dot(s) you place. They can be moved around as you see fit before you commit to a line. But once you draw the line, stick with what you have even if it’s wrong.
Rough perspective
You’ve done a pretty nice job maintaining horizontal lines to be parallel to the horizon line, and vertical lines perpendicular to it.
Rotating boxes
Great job getting through this exercise!
The boxes along the horizontal axis are rotating, so nice job with that. The boxes along the vertical axes are actually not rotating, meaning the boxes are sharing a similar or the same vanishing point as the box adjacent to it.
Great job keeping the boxes well neighbored to each other and drawing through your boxes.
Organic perspective
It looks like you’re missing a page, but I’ll take a look at the one you have.
While you have 3 frames, they should be rectangular as you've done with the plotted and rough perspective exercises. Also, don’t be afraid to take advantage of using the page in its entirety.
As the boxes get slightly smaller on the path, you’ve conveyed a sense that they move slightly away from the viewer.
In terms of perspective, there are some sets of parallel lines that diverge away, making planes that are further away appear to get larger instead of slightly smaller. But no worries, you’ll delve into this more in the 250 Box Challenge!
While you’re missing a page of organic perspective, I think you can move onto the 250 Box Challenge, but keeping in mind what was mentioned throughout. Just to summarize and reiterate some of those key points here:
Ghost and draw with your shoulder
Confident strokes before accuracy
Do not reinforce or correct errant lines (Use plotting dots and move them as needed before committing to a line)
Next Steps:
Congratulations on completing lesson 1!
Continue to use these exercises as part of your warm ups (about 10-15 minutes)
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge
Don’t forget to take breaks and draw for fun!
Also, now that you’ve completed Lesson 1, I encourage you to critique some Lesson 1 community submissions. Not only will this help the community, but it will also solidify and reinforce your understanding of the material. Of course, this is optional (but we’d be especially grateful!). If you’d like to give it a shot, see this guide that was created by one of our community members on how to go about critiquing Lesson 1: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ
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