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5:20 PM, Thursday August 18th 2022
Greetings Gatlingbear, congrats on finishing Lesson 1! First off:
Lines
Through out your homework with Lines I've noticed that there are some lines that arched or just a teeny bit wobbly, for example the ghosted planes, you can notice that some of your lines have some inconsistency. For the Superimposed exercise, it is fraying on both sides which is a no-go. It's okay if the line is fraying on only one end, so I recommend you to try to start a line at one point and stroke confidently.
Ellipses
Your ellipses were phenomenal! It really shows that you had great confidence over you ellipses and it was also nice that you drawn through them 2-3 times! There are some few minor ellipses that doesn't touch the line of the ghosted planes or in the tables but your overall ellipses were great.
Just keep in mind that your ellipses must touch the lines!
Boxes
Wow! The boxes you created are absolutely great, I can really see that your thinking of the depth and perspective of each boxes. However there is one major problem that you are doing with boxes. They are not just one line, as you noticed through your boxes it seems that you chicken scratch the boxes rather than putting one confident line.
Overall:
All of your exercises were solid work but the lines weren't confident enough. So I recommend that you focus on your confidence in your lines before accuracy. It seems that you were afraid that your lines wouldn't the right spot, however your line confidence needs work first before worrying about that.
During your warmup, you can possibly do the superimposed line to work on confidence and after you feel confident with your lines try doing warmups with ghosted lines!
So I believe that you should revise these pages that I provided below this comment. When you are revising keep this in your head, no matter how off your line is, draw it only once
Next Steps:
1 page of superimposed lines
1 page of ghosted planes
1 page of rough perspective
1 page of organic perspective
10:19 PM, Thursday August 18th 2022
Hi OHTAMAGO,
thank you so much for your great and thorough feedback. Really appreciate it. What a great community this is. ;D
Here is the link to my revisions.
10:27 PM, Thursday August 18th 2022
Now this is improvement Gatlingbear! I can definitely see that you put in more thought on your lines, wonderful! You have now completed your first lesson, congrats!
Next Steps:
I've strongly believe that you are now ready for the 250 box challenge! Good luck and remember to draw confident lines!
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