Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

11:57 PM, Saturday January 2nd 2021

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All done! Please give me critique and let me know if I can move on to the 250 box challenge!

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12:14 PM, Sunday January 3rd 2021

Superimposed Lines

  • Good work! They only fray on one end and the majority of them look to be drawn with confidence. Well done.

Ghosted Lines

  • Good overall, a couple of little wobbles here and there but this will improve with practice.

Ghosted Planes

  • Great work, most of these look pretty confident. Well done.

Tables of Ellipses

  • Generally pretty good! Some of these look a litte rushed. Make sure to ghost your ellipses, I find it helps with accuracy.

  • They look confident and fliud though, well done.

Ellipses in Planes

  • I can see a couple of little wobbles but overall very good.

Ellipses in Funnels

  • your minor axis is good, each ellipse is split evenly in half

  • They look confident, and drawn through twice, good job. Watch out that some of your ellipses are getting pointier at one end than the other, almost like eggs.

Plotted Perspective

  • Good job, I can see you fully understood the exercise.

Rough Perspective

  • These are nice! Your lines do get a little wobbly, remember to ghost and take breaks if needed.

Rotated Boxes

  • Your boxes are not rotated enough. I found this the most difficult exercise in lesson one, so don't be too hard on yourself. I would advise re-reading the instructions for this exercise and re-watching the video that goes with it. So that you fully understand the exercise. It looks like you got frustrated and/or tired doing this and I totally understand. I won't be cruel enough to suggest you draw this again right now, but maybe give it another try after you've finished the 250 box challenge.

There are tricks you can use to make this thing easier, like using the neighbouring edges to help keep things aligned.

Organic Perspective

  • Pretty good! The perspective on some of these is off, but you'll get more than enough practice on them soon enough.

  • Remeber to use the size of the boxes to help give a sense of distance. Small boxes far away, big boxes closer to the viewer. You've varied them a bit, but you can push this a lot more to help give your composition depth.

Next Steps:

Well done!

Move on to the 250 box challenge!

Incorporate lesson 1 exercises into your warmups.

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3:24 PM, Sunday January 3rd 2021

Thanks so much for the critique! I will move on to the 250 box challenge and look over the rotated boxes again after that!

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