Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

8:30 PM, Tuesday August 11th 2020

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First of all, thank you for the learning opportunity!

About my submission of Homeworks, I had some difficulties with the image quality, because I don't have a scanner, so I was only able to take pictures of the pages with my cell phone.

Sincerely, IcaroM98.

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6:05 PM, Friday September 4th 2020

Hello

I'll be reviewing your work

First thing i notice is that you are putting too much pressure on your ink pen, and its sometimes leaving blank marks behind. You don't need to put too much force on your pen.

Lessons up until funnels are well made then it seems like you are having problems where everyone else also struggles the first time.

Your rough perspective boxes are really off, i feel like you didn't understand the idea behind VP's or this lesson. Your red lines need to go as close as possible to the VP while keeping the box normal (not looking weird, some of yours are really wobbly and off looking).

Lastly the point of the Organic Perspective lesson is so that you understand how distance works in drawing. The further away an object it's size will be reduced. All your boxes here seem really close to each other which gives the illusion of everything being really close to the viewer.

Overall you have done well in lesson 1 but you need to draw 2 more pages and ill consider this lesson finished.

Next Steps:

1x Page of Rough Perspective

1x Page of Organic Perspective

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:37 AM, Thursday September 10th 2020

First of all, thank you for taking the time to evaluate my homework!

About the excess of force in the pen when drawing: I really had a lot of difficulty in drawing the lines because I never drew before that way, so at first I used to put a lot of pressure on my arms, in order to use my shoulders as much as possible.

About rough perspective boxes: I will certainly remake them. The quality did not come out as recommended because I never tried to make perspective drawings freehand, so these are new things for me.

About Organic Perspective: I hadn't noticed this distance issue before. It really helps someone else to evaluate our work, right? hahaha

But as a whole, your critique will help me a lot in my progress, as I will follow your recommendations to remake the selected exercises. Thank you very much.

7:25 AM, Thursday September 10th 2020

Glad to help. The most improvement comes when you are critiqued by other people and you learn from it.

Keep at it :)

1:01 AM, Monday October 26th 2020

Hello MAXXBURN!

I would like to apologize for the delay ... I went through complicated moments, so I didn't have time to remake the activities.

But now that those times have passed, I have managed to remake the tasks, and here they are.

Thanks in advance!

Here is the link to my submissions: https://imgur.com/a/q64q4zk

1:19 PM, Monday October 26th 2020

A lot of improvement here, nice work. Marking the lesson as completed.

Proceed with the box challenge next :) ganbate!

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2:04 AM, Tuesday November 3rd 2020

Hooray! Let's go to the challenge!

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