Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
10:47 AM, Sunday July 17th 2022
Lesson 1 for critiquing
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8:10 PM, Tuesday August 2nd 2022
Hello, I will be critiquing you
Lines
-Starting with your superimposed lines, I see they are mostly confident. I do notice that some of them wobble a bit and it would be a good idea to prioritze the confidence over accuracy. If you have any issues with this I think its best to refer back to the lessons.
-Ghosted lines do look better in regards to the confidence. These should also follow the same rules that I mentioned above when it comes to confidence over accuracy.
-The ghosted planes are similar to your ghosted lines and I can see that you committed to the linework here a lot better.
Ellipses
-Ellipses in tables is looking confident and tidy. You did well with keeping them evenly shaped which should always be the goal.
-The ellipses in planes excercise looks good as well, but I would like to mention that the ellipse does not need to be modified to touch all contact points in the plane. All you can do is change the width and what position the ellipse is in.
-The symmetry of your ellipses in funnels is turning out better. I think you would benefit from doing a little extra practice with your ellipse excercises when you do warmups.
Boxes
-Your rough perspective is turning out nicely, but I do see that the estimations for the vanishing points are a bit off. This should also improve with more practice.
-Your rotated boxes excercise looks nice and confident. Something that may help is giving yourself more room to ghost the lines and adding hatching marks to define the shapes more. Otherwise, this turned out good.
-Lastly, the organic perspective excercise is looking confident and I see that you attempted the rotation of the boxes. Any issues that I did not mention in this section with be addressed in the 250 Box Challenge.
*Use this lesson in your warm up routine.
I'm going to go ahead an mark your lesson as complete and you can move on. Good job :)
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
11:13 AM, Thursday August 4th 2022
Thank you for critiquing my lesson. Do I need to draw lines and ellipses daily as warmup?
2:12 PM, Thursday August 4th 2022
It is necessary to include the entire lesson in your daily warm up routine. I believe you have to pick 2-3 excecises and do them anywhere from 15-30 minutes before you start your new lessons. Also, for the website that I linked below, I would like to mention that it includes excercises from lesson 1, the 250 Box Challenge, and excercise from lesson 2. You will only need to use lesson 1 for now, but once you finish each lesson you will add those exercises into your warm up routine.
Here is the website that shuffles up the excecises
https://mark-gerarts.github.io/draw-a-card/index.html
I'm sorry if I didn't clarify this properly and if you have anymore questions you can go ahead and ask :)
2:14 PM, Sunday August 7th 2022
Thank you very much for answering this.
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