Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

2:48 AM, Monday December 5th 2022

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Complete beginner, new to drawing.

Ball point pen was used until rough perspective.

Thank you for any feedback. It was certainly challenging for me.

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9:33 AM, Thursday December 8th 2022

You did okay but your circles were really wobbly, you were too focused on accuracy, not line confidence. Remember to draw from your shoulder with you hand lightly resting on the table and just be free with your movement. It's okay if you're circles aren't perfect, just keep practicing ghosting and you'll improve :)

Next Steps:

I recommend doing the 250 box challenge

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4:17 PM, Sunday December 11th 2022

Hello! I know there's a critique here already, but I felt as though it missed a few things, so I'll give my own breakdown.

First off, I noticed that this is in a sketchbook. While you're free to continue using it, it's recommended to use printer paper for your exercises due to sketchbooks tending to bend backward. In the end it's up to you whether or not to change, it's just heavily recommended.

Starting off with your lines, your superimposed look fantastic. They're all very consistent for a beginner, so congrats. As for the ghosted lines and planes, I'm noticing a trend where the lines either meet both points but are wobbling, or they miss one point yet look straighter. Remember, we want to have confidence first and foremost. You want to have your lines straight before they meet both points. Of course, warm-ups will help improve that in the future.

Your ellipses in general aren't too shabby. I see a trend through the tables of ellipses of more confidence, and I think it reaches it's highest during the funnels. They're over-extending a little in both, but that'll come with practice. I do notice a few instances in the ellipses in planes where the ellipses stretch in order to meet all the edges, so again remember confidence comes first. Perhaps ghost them a few more times to make sure you got the feeling right.

Finally, your boxes. For future practice, I would avoid making your red correction marks on the rough perspective exercise. It's much more clear if they were removed, as the blue lines can more clearing show how off you are from the VP. Along with that, through all of the box exercises. I'm noticing that a few times you go through your lines a second time. It's hard to not correct those lines, but don't. It'll only get in you way, as things get messier. There's not a whole lot to say about the rotated box exercise. It looks like you struggled, but that's the point. You'll get more of a feel for it in the future as you get more accustomed to perspective. Lastly your organic boxes are a good first attempt, but you're missing one of the two exercises. One organic boxes exercise consists of three panels, and there are only three panels here. You should go back and finish those up before anything, in my opinion.

All in all, not a bad submission. There's a few bad habits here and there but you have potential as long as you can pull through. Once you finish up the last organic box exercise make sure to incorperate these exercises into your warm-ups, and you should be good to go.

Next Steps:

Complete the last organic perspective exercise, then you're free to move on to the 250 box challenge.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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