Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
6:14 PM, Saturday July 25th 2020
Here is my complete homework for Lesson 1.
Hi Spookyprayers,
I've checked your submission! Good job on completing lesson 1!
I really like your lines, they really show that you are striving to make each of them look confident! Always remember, confidence>accuracy, if they miss or overshot, it doesn't matter since that imporves with time and practice!
Now, your ellipses are the same deal, with one slight issue. They look confident and get better over the lesson, but there is a problem with the amount of times you are going through them with your pen. The recommended amout it's two, you can go up to 3 if you want, but I recommend you sick with 2. Why? Because the second pass it's for you to make up for the mistakes you've done in the first one, but if you make more than this, instead of making things look better, it actually just get's messier!
I like your boxes, there is a clear improvement in them all through the lesson, I specially like you organic perspective exercise! However, you can make some improvements on line weight . You will see that there is a section about this on the 250 Box Challenge that I recommend you read it carefully when you get to it.
Though, I recommend yo don't try to fix your lines with more lines, it's a bad habit, plus it makes it look messier.
Next Steps:
Now comes the 250 Box Challenge, It's not that hard, just scary. This challenge it's all about two things: constancy and determination. Don't try to rush through the challenge, take your time and try to make the most of every box. Try to do it regularly, if you can daily, go for it! I started it out by doing 10 boxes a day (5 boxes it's my personal best amount for each page, though don't do more than 6) and when I got the hang of it I did 15, and then continued like that up to the end. Remember, slow and steady.
Best of lucks and keep it up
I agree with this critique. A few additional comments: your boxes looked great! However, some of your exercises had a lot of empty space where you could have added more. The plotted perspective is the most obvious example of this. Make sure you're filling the page to get the most out of the exercise. You did a much better job with the organic perspective exercise filling-the-box wise. Similarly, in your line-drawing exercises and your plane exercises, most of the lines were the same length. Work on challenging yourself by varying up the lines. It's great if you can draw one length of line really well, but how do you do with tiny lines? Or really long lines that cover most of the page? Look for ways to vary it up that way you are sharpening multiple skills at once.
Best of luck with the box challenge.
Thank you Weijak and Sevey 13! Since I did not expect to get more answers to my post, I already moved on, but I am definitly going to implement your suggestions now that I red them, thank you :D.
Looks to me like you nailed every lesson. Great job! The only think i can really comment on is I had trouble with the rotated boxes as well. I think yours turned out better than mine but the advice I got I can pass on to you.
I was told that the first boxes a bit too far which caused you to not have a lot of room left for rotation when you got to the boxes along the outer edge. A lot the small sized of the boxes can make this exercise more difficult.
Hope that makes sense or helps.
Great job!
When giving people feedback, be sure to use the "mark as complete" or "request revisions" tools so they can be given some kind of next steps - without that, the student has no way of actually getting their completion badge for the lesson. It actually doesn't count as a critique in the system either, and so their submission will still appear in the list as not having received feedback.
Also, in general you should try not to compare the person's work with your own - I understand that people often do that out of a general sense of anxiety and a lack of confidence. One thing that can help with doing so is following Elodin's critique guides for Lesson 1 and the 250 Box Challenge. For these early lessons, you can look at them a little like a checklist, and quickly go through the exercises to identify anywhere the student may have misunderstood something.
Sorry for not marking it complete, and thank you for directing me to Elodin's critique guides for Lesson 1 and the 250 Box Challenge. I read the guide and will review it again before I make any other reviews.
Thank you.
Thank you for your reply :). Seems like I did better than I expected ^^´´. Yea those smaller ranges of rotation made the exercise very difficutl, but thanks for the tip :).
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