Found the rotated boxes and organic perspective a bit tricky so will be doing the 250 box challenge concurrently with the next lesson. Any feedback welcomed, thanks! :) (Also I used the ghosted planes pages for the ellipses in planes exercise)
Hello AnnaBuckmaster,
Lines
You've done quite a good work in this section. Your superimposed lines are well packed together with minimal fraying. But you were supposed to submit 2 pages of superimposed lines.
Ghosted lines are also looks satisfactory. The lines are consistent.
Same with the ghosted planes, apart from the pages of this exercise are not submitted separately, everything is nicely done here. Although, it is seen here that you've done a good job with planes, it's not really that necessary to submit those again, but you could've captured the pictures of ghosted planes before drawing ellipses in them.
Your overall Line quality is optimum and confident, looks like you understood the concept behind using shoulder to draw. Good at it keep it up.
Ellipses
In the table of ellipses, the ellipses are nice and confident. Using your shoulder is really helping you here.
But here when drawing those ellipses in the planes, your ellipses are lacking some confidence and some of them look wobbly. Because of you wanting to fit those ellipses exactly in to the planes, your brain controlled your strokes and so they look wobbly. Don't try to hit perfection. Sometimes if ellipse doesn't touch one or two edges of plane, that's acceptable because it happens. The main purpose of this exercise is not to exactly fit those ellipses in the planes but it is to practice drawing ellipses in different perspective with confidence and good consistency.
In funnels, again you've done good job for ellipses. So you are able to draw ellipses confidently but just because trying to fit in planes perfectly, it got wobbly.
Boxes
Plotted perspective is obviously good. You've got the idea behind the vanishing point correctly.
You've done rough perspective also in a good way. Your boxes seems good but some them have a few wobbly lines and somewhere the vertical and horizontal lines are misaligned. Your other sets of lines of boxes are good enough, nice try as few of them are reaching the vanishing point.
Even though the rotated boxes are quite challenging ones, you've done quite a job here too! Boxes are aligned properly but while rotating them, it is seen that you've struggled the most here. Always visualize and then decide how you want that mark to be, before even touching the paper with pen and for this make use of ghosting method. You've really pushed so hard for this one, good to appreciate. Though the line quality lags a little bit here, you understood the purpose behind this exercise and tried to do it nicely.
In organic perspective, the variation in sizes of the boxes from far to closer are good enough.
This organic perspective exercise would've really worth remarkable, if you didn't foreshorten some of the boxes. And here too you should have submitted one more page of organic perspective.
I hope, you understand the concept behind my critique. I appreciate your work. Keep practicing and try to move on from mistakes, because a good consistent practice will always improve your work than to grinding them again and again.
Next Steps:
Your overall work is good but this submission must be completed. It can't be said that f you haven't done those 2 pages or whether you forgot to upload them.
So, please do send 1 page of Superimposed Lines and 1 page of Organic Perspective here.
And as mentioned above even it's not separately uploaded your Ghosted Planes can be seen, so no need to redo and upload those. But keep it in mind for the next exercises.
Reply with the pages as requested.
Thank you very much for the critique, I will try to work on those suggestions!
I think I missed photographing those pages for some reason so have uploaded them here: https://imgur.com/a/Pbf0wx2
Hello again,
I'm glad that you appreciated my critique and willing to work on it. Also, you've uploaded the missing pages as requested. I've gone through them.
There's no doubt your line work is pretty good and well done. Lines are consistent and show confidence. But your Organic Perspective or the Boxes need some improvements. You will have to start thinking that how a box or any object sits in the space. While drawing through boxes in Rough Perspective, you've done good job and those boxes nearly seems to be in a 3D space. As in the Organic Perspective, because of not allowing to draw through the boxes, you couldn't visualize those boxes in 3D space properly, though few of those look pretty good.
So, always keep practicing and visualizing the objects in 3D space. Don't forget to draw using your shoulder. Keep warming up with some of these exercises like Ellipse in Ghosted Planes and Organic Perspective or simply Boxes, before you do any of the exercises or work, it'll generate a drawing memory and help you to achieve whatever you're willing to draw without struggling to figure out the right marks.
And now it's time to move on to the 250 Box Challenge, where you'll get to practice the boxes ultimately, so no need to worry about whatever mistakes you've done in these past Exercises. Just move on and always appreciate & enjoy whatever yo do. Don't feel pressurized or rush to complete the exercises. Look at it as your favorite job and get lost into it, enjoy it.
I hope you'll improve and mold your skills in an Artistic Way.
All the very Best !!!
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
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