Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
9:45 AM, Sunday May 17th 2020
My pen died along the way. May it rest in peace.
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2:14 AM, Monday May 18th 2020
If you don't have more fineliners, don't worry! Fineliners are definitely better, but ballpoints work pretty nicely for the course. Specially if you aren't going to submit for official critique, you could go through everything with ballpoint.
Lines
Lines are great! Only issue I can see is that you have fraying on both ends. When starting a line, you should carefully place your pen on the start of each line, so only a maximum of 1 end can fray. Plan each stroke you make carefully.
Ellipses
Ellipses are great as well, you're focusing on confidence over accuracy, and nevertheless they are coming along pretty accurate, keep going like that and you'll nail them!
Remember that in the funnels exercises the minor axis has to cut the ellipses in 2 even halves.
Boxes
P good job overall, though you show a few issues I can notice:
-You're repeating and crossing some lines. No matter how off a line is, don't repeat it, keep going as if it was correct.
-Your lines get a bit worse here. Don't forget to focus on confidence, even if that line you're drawing is part of a box.
-On rotated boxes, some of your boxes weren't actually rotating, careful with that, this mistake is explained here.
-On organic perspective I recommend doing more overlaps. You can clarify after the overlaps by adding a confident, drawn with the shoulder superimposed line on the part of the silhouette of the boxes that overlap.
-Don't forget to draw through your boxes on it as well. You should be able to see the boxes, even if they're covered by other boxes. You can add lineweight to clarify their relationship on the line overlaps after.
Overall pretty good job!
Next Steps:
First of all, congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your next step is the box challenge.
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more through the course.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on the box challenge, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
7:27 AM, Monday May 18th 2020
Thank you very much Elodin!
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A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
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