Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

3:44 AM, Saturday May 23rd 2020

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The extra stuff on my rotated boxes page are because I was so frustrated with it that I was about to do it again and use that page as warmup, then I realized I'm just getting too caught up in things I shouldn't be worrying about.

Anyways, thanks to whoever critiques this.

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7:16 AM, Saturday May 23rd 2020

Congratulations on completing the first lesson!

This is my first critique, so it won't be as thorough as other critiques here. Also, I have zero authority here and don't understand all the rules of the process.

So I am commenting entirely under correction here. Just a fellow student talking to another.

Overall:

It's not easy completing this homework, and you deserve credit for that. But these also feel rushed and don't pay enough attention to the rules laid out in the lesson.

Your linework is smooth and steady. But you might be too impatient to get your lines down, when you should be focusing more on your ghosting. You need to improve your ghosting, or the 250 box exercise is going to be incredibly tough for you. Practice line and plane ghosting.

Focus on where you put your pen down. If you miss that first dot, the rest simply won't fall in place.

Ellipses are tough, but don't rush them. If you want to improve your focus and control, draw lots of ghosted planes and ellipses in them. I practice that warm up all the time. I sometimes have to force myself to do other warmups instead.

If you can, use a different colour pen when you plot the lines afterwards. It makes it a lot easier to study them and see where you can improve your technique. That's much harder to see if the lines are all the same colours. (Here's an example)

Some details:

You are pretty focused up to ghosting the planes, but here you start becoming sloppy and impatient with the lines inside the planes. One box is missing lines.

Your ellipse exercises feel very rushed, particularly the ellipse planes.

The funnels received deeper focus and look good. Nice work - you definitely have the skill to do the homework well enough.

Nice work on the perspective exercises. But your ghosting is very sloppy - some lines in the rough perspective homework don't even touch any points at all.

Congratulations on completing the rotated boxes exercise. It's a monster. I think you did follow the rule being explained there (shifting the vanishing point). I'm glad you didn't restart this. The point is not getting it right, but exercising the specific principles explained in the lessons and homework. It's not about doing it right, but trying it honestly.

I think you need to revisit the content on how to draw the boxes for the organic perspective exercise. Judging by your line directions, you are not following those steps.

Again, congratulations for making it to this point. I totally think you're up to the task and have the skill to handle the lessons on this site. But really pay attention to what is being explained in the lessons. I read a homework assignment a minimum of two or three times before I start, and I often refer back to it while I do the homework. The goal is not to finish, but to follow and understand the principles laid out in the lessons.

Don't rush things, focus on learning and execution, and reapply what you've learned in warmups - and you'll improve quickly.

Next Steps:

I'm going to ask you to redo the Organic Perspective homework. Look specifically at the instructions on how to construct the box. The Y and parallel line principles are key when you go into the 250 boxes exercise.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
6:59 PM, Friday May 29th 2020
edited at 6:59 PM, May 29th 2020

Hey,

Thanks for the feedback! I really appreciate it. I do admit I was guilty of focusing a little too much on completion.

Anyways, I re-did the organic perspective exercises as you asked. I hope this is better, because I definitely didn't fully understand the Y construction method originally.

https://imgur.com/a/RRYaB9R

Again, thanks a bunch.

EDIT: Sorry for responding pretty late, I was out of town this weekend.

edited at 6:59 PM, May 29th 2020
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12:31 AM, Monday June 8th 2020

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