Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:23 AM, Sunday January 17th 2021

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any critiques would be good so O can get better. and if I can start on the 250 box challenge?

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3:00 PM, Monday January 18th 2021

Congratulations on finishing lesson 1! Your work here is pretty well done, so let's get right in to the critique - there are some things I want to mention that can hopefully help you do better on the exercises you've done.

The first thing that stands out to me in this submission is your use of lined paper. Note that it's not the best choice - it would be better be A4 printing papers. If you have some of these around, please use them in your revisions.

Lines

  • Wobble in lines. Wobble in lines is usually a sign of unconfident line work. As mentioned in the lesson, confident lines are better than accurate lines at this point. Remember to ghost every mark you make and take your time. Ghosting is a method worth practicing, and the more early on you start to pay considerable attention to this, the more (generally) you're going to improve. You're doing pretty well at this point, but I just want to mention it because there's still room for improvement - your line quality would be much better if you pay more attention at making your lines more confident than accurate.

  • Arching lines. This could be caused by not using the shoulder pivot or not ghosting enough. If this is the case, remember to use the shoulder pivot for your lines, and ghost every mark you draw. However, it can be present even if you used your shoulder pivot. in this case, it can usually be solved by consciously arching to the opposite direction. I hope that'll help you!

  • Repeated lines.(or is that under drawing) You repeated some lines that shouldn't be repeated. I know you may thought that these lines are not accurate enough, but remember, throughout the lesson, any lines shouldn't be repeated for correction purpose. It's a precious thing to learn in Drawabox that is accepting your mistakes. Trust me - it will happen a lot in the following lessons, but whatever how much your line strays from your intention, they should not be repeated. Instead, just cope with it. I understand, this is going to be painful, but it's an important lesson to learn here.

  • Under drawing. Well, I'm not sure if the thing you did is repeated line or underdrawing. However, both should not be used in Drawabox assignments.

All in all, your lines are looking good aside of the things I pointed out previously. Keep up the good work!

Ellipses

  • Ellipses not occupying spaces snugly. This is a problem of accuracy, although it might just be that you are not very familiar with ellipses. Note that in the ellipse table, ellipses should touch the upper and lower bound and each following ellipse should touch each other. Similarly, in the ellipses in planes exercise, ellipses should touch the four edges of each planes. I understand it is hard to achieve - nearly all of the students struggle with ellipses even after they completed the course. But I still want to mention it, which is an actual mistake. No need to take it seriously right now, remember what's the most important is confidence in your line work.

  • Like the lines, confidence in ellipses should be prioritized over accuracy, too. This is just a reminder: achieving smooth and confident ellipses is way more important than drawing accurate ones.

To summarize, you have achieved what is expected in this section aside of the things I have pointed out previously. Great job!

Boxes

  • On rough perspective, width lines are not parallel to the horizon and height lines are not perpendicular to the horizon. Remember that width lines should be parallel to the horizon and height lines perpendicular to the horizon. It might be hard to you, and many students. But since you have this mistake, I have mentioned it so you can keep it in your mind if it is not yet.

  • On rotated boxes, some boxes are not rotating. Because the boxes are rotating, so their VPs needs to change. It may be hard to understand for many students, so it's pretty much normal. This is a link to a much more detailed explanation I can offer, I hope this will help you: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/368870697742630912/715669112222908466/zfr3o7xneog31.png?width=71&height=534 . Anyways, that's just some of your boxes, though. A large portion of your boxes, they are great. I'm just bringing this up to make sure that you're not confused with it.

  • Inappropriate hatching. Remember that your hatching on the boxes should be ghosted, parallel lines. Try to treat them like the way you treat your other lines. Anyways, this is just a minor problem, but remember that it applies in the box challenge too.

  • Mistakes in perspective in organic perspective. It's very common for students to have this problem because they're not familiar to boxes yet. I'm just bringing this up and you don't need to worry about this - we will work on it in the hell of 250 boxes.

All in all, your work is great on this lesson. But for the sake of that I think you've repeated some lines (or made some under drawings in pencil), I'm going to assign you just one more page of ghosted lines, with no underdrawing or repeated lines. Keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

One more page of ghosted lines. Please submit the revision by replying to this critique.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
7:25 PM, Tuesday January 19th 2021
edited at 7:28 PM, Jan 19th 2021

https://imgur.com/a/SRK66zL

I assumed when u said repeating lines to stop drawing on the same line once I marked it.

edited at 7:28 PM, Jan 19th 2021
2:20 PM, Wednesday January 20th 2021

That's much better! Your confidence as definitely improved over this page. Feel free to move on to the 250 box challenge and to ask for agrees on the discord community!

Next Steps:

250 box challenge.

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