Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

2:42 PM, Monday March 23rd 2020

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Still have no idea how to draw a box right. In two last exercises all boxes don't looks like an actual box in 3d space. Y like foundation is helps, but not that much.

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12:14 AM, Tuesday May 19th 2020

Aw man I really appreciate your patience with me getting around to actually critiquing this.

Superimposed lines

Like Siegfried mentioned, you have some arcing on your superimposed lines. Generally this can be solved over time. What's more important is confidence (a line that does not wobble) and trying to avoid "hooking" at the end of your line. Hooking happens when you stop drawing your line and then lift the pen from the paper, causing the little hook right at the end. Better to try and practice lifting your pen from the page as you end the line so that you aren't going to risk making a hook.

Ghosted lines

These have the same arcing issues as the superimposed lines, and a few have hooks, but overall pretty good.

Ghosted planes

The first page of planes in the gallery is solid with only some minor arcing. The second page of planes (which I assume you did first) suffers from some wiggly arcing. It may be a good idea to experiment and find the sweet spot of line making-too fast and you're prone to arc, too slow and you're prone to wobble.

Tables of Ellipses

These are all fairly round! Seems like you struggle a little with ending your ellipse (which can be fixed with the same "lift the pen right before the end of the line" trick as before), and thin ellipses which get a little lumpy. Lumpiness can be ironed out with some more ghosting in my experience, though overall a good job.

Ellipses in Planes

Same general guidelines as the tables of ellipses here. Since your ellipses are already relatively round and confident, the next step is to work on accuracy-getting the ellipse to hit the four sides of the space that it is in.

Funnels

Only unique issue here is keeping the ellipses lined up, which is a symptom of the accuracy problem.

Plotted Perspective

Not much to say here, you followed the directions and your boxes look lovely.

Rough Perspective

We have some wobbles creeping back into the lines, and you seem to have misunderstood the correction lines. Drawing the correction lines from the VP may help, but you are supposed to draw the lines from the lines of the box that you drew. This becomes relevant during the box challenge, as the VP is often off the page or otherwise invisible. You did do this correctly on the extra third page, though even here you should make sure that your correction lines extend as far as they can go.

Retain confidence to the best of your ability, follow the example homework as closely as possible, and keep up the good work.

Rotated Boxes

This exercise is difficult and complicated, so I'm not surprised that you seemed to have struggled with it. Good job for completing it to the best of your abilities. If you are confused on how to make one of these look closer to the perfect example, I can give you some resources, but I don't think you need to worry about it now that you've finished it!

Organic Perspective

Honestly your organic perspective isn't half bad. There's some issues with some of the boxes, as is to be expected, but you have many that overlap, there's a relatively clear progression from closest to furthest away in size, and you successfully turned them around in space! Great job!

Next Steps:

Congratulations! You're finished with lesson 1. Next step is the 250 box challenge!

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6:28 PM, Monday March 23rd 2020

i think you should may be more carefully with the instructions, the lines in the first panel are confident and not wobby, but is at putporse that they always curve? maybe you should try to do it with straith lines, the next two exercises you should try to be more awareness of that because thats the whole point, and then the concerned boxes exercise you need to be more focused on the perspective, there should be 5 points, and thats why it look rotated, maybe you should read the lesson again, english isn't my primary language so im sorry with the bad ortography

7:59 PM, Monday March 23rd 2020

Thanks for the reply. I definitely should reread the whole section about boxes. Especially about perspective. I agree about focus on it. But i don't get the line about 5 points. What points and where? Do you mean that there is should be 5 vanishing points for two boxes to looks like a bit rotated? Or i am missing something else?

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11:19 PM, Saturday March 28th 2020

While you have submitted this for critique from community , I do want to point out that if you want official critique from Uncomfortable or one of the TAs, you'll need to resubmit this for official critique using your credits. If you don't care about official crits and just want to support what Uncomfy is doing here at DaB, then let me know and I'll critique your assignment as soon as possible!

1:39 PM, Sunday March 29th 2020

Hello, Heckacentipede! I'm fine with the community critique for this lesson. But thanks for the explanation.

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