Alright! Let’s look through it, then~
Starting off, your lines look good. There’s a bit too much focus on accuracy, though. It is, in fact, perfectly fine to overshoot the end point- it’s much preferred to decreasing your speed, and causing your line to become wobbly. If you do happen to stop short of it, though, leave that line as-is- don’t correct it (more on this later.)
This applies to your ellipses, too. They’re not as smooth as can be, and in the ellipses in planes exercise in particular, you’re so focused on accuracy, that the ellipses come out bumpy. It’s more important for them to be confident, and circular, than accurate.
The box section looks good. The first mistake I notice is the automatic reinforcing habit. This is actually discouraged. If a line comes out wrong, leave it. Correcting a mistake, that is, adding more ink to that area, just makes it stand out more. If you need that line to be correct, to use as a reference, or something, feel free to correct it using a red pen. On the rough perspective exercise, remember that because of the rules of perspective, the back side of the boxes is of a similar shape to the front side, but smaller. So, if the front face is, let’s say, a square, the back face cannot be a rectangle. In the organic perspective exercise, by the way, be sure to draw through your boxes. You did this in page 1, but not in page 2, for some reason.
Anyway! Though there’s a couple of hiccups, this is a solid submission, and you’re clear to move on to the next. Just be mindful of your priorities (confidence > accuracy), and learn to live with your mistakes (no automatic reinforcing.)
GL!
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
Thank you so much Benj, this is constructive and well thought out feedback which I appreciate immensely.
You hit the nail on the head with my issue on confidence over accuracy.
I was unsure on drawing through the boxes in the organic boxes as uncomfy doesnt do this in his examples on the lesson but good to know for the future.
Again appreciate feedback like this, really does make the community shine when we constructive advice such as this.
It’s my pleasure~
To clarify, when I say that you should draw through your boxes I’m not referring to their back lines. There’s a lot to gain by drawing those, so you’re certainly welcome to, but it’s, as you say, not required for this exercise. What I am referring to is their front lines- specifically the ones that are being overlapped by other boxes. That is to say, if a box is overlapping another, the lines that it’s overlapping (and thus hiding) should still be drawn. Let me know if you’re not 100% sure of what I mean by this, and I’ll show you in your work.
Yep that makes sense, I'll make sure to do that when I encounter this activity in warm ups.
Thanks again.
This has been submitted for community critique, not official critique (from Uncomfortable and his TAs.) Is this correct?
Yes this is correct.
Let's be real here for a second: fineliners can get pricey. It varies from brand to brand, store to store, and country to country, but good fineliners like the Staedtler Pigment Liner (my personal brand favourite) can cost an arm and a leg. I remember finding them being sold individually at a Michael's for $4-$5 each. That's highway robbery right there.
Now, we're not a big company ourselves or anything, but we have been in a position to periodically import large batches of pens that we've sourced ourselves - using the wholesale route to keep costs down, and then to split the savings between getting pens to you for cheaper, and setting some aside to one day produce our own.
These pens are each hand-tested (on a little card we include in the package) to avoid sending out any duds (another problem with pens sold in stores). We also checked out a handful of different options before settling on this supplier - mainly looking for pens that were as close to the Staedtler Pigment Liner. If I'm being honest, I think these might even perform a little better, at least for our use case in this course.
We've also tested their longevity. We've found that if we're reasonably gentle with them, we can get through all of Lesson 1, and halfway through the box challenge. We actually had ScyllaStew test them while recording realtime videos of her working through the lesson work, which you can check out here, along with a variety of reviews of other brands.
Now, I will say this - we're only really in a position to make this an attractive offer for those in the continental United States (where we can offer shipping for free). We do ship internationally, but between the shipping prices and shipping times, it's probably not the best offer you can find - though this may depend. We also straight up can't ship to the UK, thanks to some fairly new restrictions they've put into place relating to their Brexit transition. I know that's a bummer - I'm Canadian myself - but hopefully one day we can expand things more meaningfully to the rest of the world.
This website uses cookies. You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.
