Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

9:14 AM, Sunday March 28th 2021

L1 - Google Drive

L1 - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-0nErJxLYx1oAbhh0aNAg4pWuy60EHAG?usp=sharing

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12:48 PM, Monday April 12th 2021

Hi DinoDino, I've checked your submission.

Starting out by your lines, in the super imposed lines, it looks like you are giving yourself the time to ghost and plan your lines, and to carefully position the pen where you want it to start! The one thing that I'm noticing tho is that in some cases your group of lines are arching quite noticeable, this can mean two things;

  • One, you're using more of your elbow than your shoulder to draw your lines, if this is the case remember to use your whole shoulder, I know is hard at the beginning but keep trying.

  • Second, it might happen that you have a tendency to arch lines in a certain direction, what helps a lot of people it's to purposely arch the lines on the opposite direction!

Your ghosted lines are looking pretty good, though I'm seeing some wobblyness here and there- Remember that whenever we are doing lines, we must prioritize confidence over accuracy, this is stated in one of the mark making principle as "lines must flow smoothly" and the reason behind it is because confidence on your lines will come with the method that you employ (ghosting) while accuracy will just come with time and practice.

On to your ellipses, while they are pretty good in some cases, you are falling into a similar issue as your lines, you are focusing too much on accuracy, rather than trying to make them flow smoothly. As I said, in some cases you put your focus on confidence and they are pretty good (specially on you table of ellipses) though remember to apply the ghosting method in every ellipse you do, since all we can do to assure a confident stroke is on the ghosting stage, before we actually put the pen down. In a lot of cases on your table of ellipses, you are not trying to fit them in aside from the other, which was part of the exercise. On your ghosted ellipses on planes you are falling in a very common mistake where you are sometimes deforming your ellipses so they fit better, this is an example of focusing too much on accuracy. This happened also on your funnels a little, tho remember to only go through your ellipses twice, don't do more since it will get messy.

On to your boxes, you are doing a good job on them, specially maintaining a good line quality on your boxes. First thing I want to touch on is your rotated boxes, you did a pretty solid work on it, the only thing is that maybe you didn't rotated the boxes fast enough so that it forms a circle overall, but it's a pretty hard exercise, so don't worry. Also, you are doing a great job on your organic perspective, the only thing that I'm seeing is that you are sometimes repeating lines to correct them, don't do this since it will make everything more messy!

You did a very solid work on this lesson, just remember to give yourself time to apply the ghosting method! I'm gonna go ahead and mark this lesson as completed!

Welcome to Draw a Box and keep it up.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move on to the 250 box challenge.

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1:58 AM, Tuesday April 13th 2021

your work overall is pretty neat. your ellipses in tables seem to be missing the edges as they were supposed to touch 2 sides of the box they are present as well as them being close to each other, yours had a little space between however they seemed to have a consistent size and that's good. your ellipses in planes were pretty good as well. rotated box exercise was done really nicely, only the front edge of the boxes seemed to have a different sizes and the corner boxes but they did seem like they were rotating so good job!.your superimposed lines were fraying from one side and thats good!. boxes in organic perspective seemed a little sloppy since you were probably hesitating but its fine since the 250 box challenge will give you lot of room to improve . really nice and neat work. keep it up and dont forget to do warmups before you start your boxes!

Next Steps:

250 box challenge seems like alot but once you get a hang of it you will be able to do it efficiently. try by starting off by only 5 boxes per day and not more to get yourself comfortable, once you are comfortable then you can increase the number of boxes you do per day. the challenge will take time but try not to stress as it improves your ability to look at rotated boxes, draw them, check the mistakes and improve linework. dont forget to use your shoulder!

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