Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

3:36 AM, Friday May 10th 2024

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Happy to finally submit it !

5:54 AM, Saturday May 11th 2024

Hey there, I'm Meta and I'll be your TA today, so let's get started.

Lines

Starting with your superimposed lines, you're doing a great job lining your pen up with the starting point and executing your lines confidently. This confidence continues through your ghosted lines and planes which are also looking good.

Ellipses

Onto your tables of ellipses and these are off to a great start. Your linework is confident for the most part, you've selected a good variety of shapes and sizes of ellipses to practice, and you've kept them squeezed up tight against each other. Do make sure you draw through your ellipses a full 2-3 times, as several of these seem more like 1.5 passes - that little bit extra will usually help even out any lumps and bumps in the shape.

Next your ellipses in planes are looking good, you've made clear attempts to hit the four sides of the plane while remaining confident and not over-focusing on accuracy.

Finally, your funnels are off to a good start - you're making good efforts getting the ellipses aligned to the minor axis. I will note that there was a bit of hesitation in your ellipses here which made them come out a bit lumpy, likely because it adds another point of contact to get accurate - but as with the previous exercise, try to focus on remaining confident and the accuracy will improve with practice.

Boxes

Onto your rough perspective and you've made fairly successful efforts to keep the horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. You've correctly applied the line extensions and your perspective lands in a pretty good margin of error.

Your rotated boxes are off to a good start - you're keeping the gaps between the boxes tight and consistent, which has given you good cues about where to place the next one. You've gotten a good amount of rotation in this exercise, which is fantastic to see - any level of success at this exercise is something to be proud of as it's intended to be an introduction to concepts explored further in the course.

Finally, you're getting a good amount of variation in the size and rotation of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise which is creating a sense of depth in each frame, the second page is particularly effective in this regard with the boxes closest to the viewer overlapping those behind. It's also really nice to see careful, considered hatching on each box - exactly what we like to see and a valuable bit of mileage you should consider taking with you into the 250 box challenge.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
3:38 AM, Sunday May 12th 2024

Thank you very much for this feedback ! I will take all the good and bad point to improve and reinforce them for the 250 boxes challenge !

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