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6:42 PM, Saturday May 13th 2023
'Sup! I'll be critiquing your Lesson 1 work. I'll be dividing this into lines, boxes, and ellipses.
IMPORTANT:
It looks like your Rotated Boxes are missing. Because of that, I can't mark your lesson as complete. Once you get it done and submit it, please let me know so I can give you credit for Lesson 1.
Remember that you must extend your convergences in Rough Perspective. This will give you vital information to improve your perspective as time goes on.
Lines:
As is stressed many times throughout the course, prioritize smooth, confident lines over accuracy. There's a fair bit of wobble in your superimposed lines exercise, but that's to be expected. It's pretty apparent in your Ghosted Lines and in your Rough Perspective, but I'm happy to say that it improved significantly once you hit Organic Perspective. Don't worry—your line quality will continue to improve significantly as you go through the course, and especially after hours upon hours of boxes in the 250 Box Challenge.
Now, let's go into specifics. You showed significant improvement when working through Superimposed Lines, with your marks getting tighter and tighter as time goes on. I also didn't notice any significant fraying at the start of your lines, which is great!
Again, with Ghosted Lines, make sure that you are executing your lines with confidence. As you work through the course, a lot of the kinks in your lines will get ironed out, but some of the more apparent wobbling can be reduced by drawing your line quickly and confidently.
Apart from wobbling lines, your Ghosted Planes are quite solid. Note, though, that it's recommended that the cross intersecting each line from the sides is plotted from points and not drawn arbitrarily.
Ellipses:
On the whole, your ellipses are pretty solid. Make sure, though, that you're drawing through your ellipses two to three times maximum. This issue wasn't present in your Funnels, but it's still something to keep in mind.
In your Table of Ellipses, make sure that your ellipses are touching your borders. Your larger ellipses are bounded better, but some of the smaller, more circular ones tend to be "floating" in the corners.
Your ellipses are well-bounded and more confident in your Ellipses in Planes. Again, just make sure to draw through your ellipses two or three times and not more.
Your ellipses improved considerably when working on the Funnels, becoming much tighter—good work! Just make sure that, for your ellipses, the minor axis bisects them. This is more of an issue with your ellipses on the right half of the page. On the whole, though, your work is pretty solid!
Boxes:
Although it isn't required, I would recommend adding some lineweight to your Organic Perspective. It helps a bit more with conveying your forms' locations in 3D space.
Your Plotted Perspective is done very well! Not much I can say here.
Apart from some issues with wobbling lines, in Rough Perspective, make sure that your vertical and horizontal lines are parallel to the edges of the frame. There's just a subtle tilt in some lines, but keep it in mind as you're plotting your points and ghosting out your lines.
I also mentioned it above, but I'll say it again: make sure to extend your convergences for this exercise! It's required, but it also helps you understand where your vanishing points lie and how you need to improve.
Finally, your Organic Perspective is also done quite well! It looks like some lines have been drawn over, so if it wasn't to add lineweight, please remember that you should not be redrawing lines. Just go with the flow and know that, over time, your accuracy will improve.
Congratulations on getting through Lesson 1! After completing a few revisions, you should be set to go on to the 250 Box Challenge. Good luck!
Next Steps:
Revisions:
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Draw your convergence lines and resubmit your Rough Perspective.
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Submit your Rotated Boxes exercise.
Apart from that:
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Make sure that you're completing the 50% Rule. It'll keep you from burning out after drawing boxes for hours on end, I assure you!
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If you notice yourself fatiguing as you work through an exercise, feel free to take a break. This is especially true with the 250 Box Challenge: slow, consistent exercises is far better than an intense gauntlet of fifty boxes in a day!
Happy drawing!
PureRef
This is another one of those things that aren't sold through Amazon, so I don't get a commission on it - but it's just too good to leave out. PureRef is a fantastic piece of software that is both Windows and Mac compatible. It's used for collecting reference and compiling them into a moodboard. You can move them around freely, have them automatically arranged, zoom in/out and even scale/flip/rotate images as you please. If needed, you can also add little text notes.
When starting on a project, I'll often open it up and start dragging reference images off the internet onto the board. When I'm done, I'll save out a '.pur' file, which embeds all the images. They can get pretty big, but are way more convenient than hauling around folders full of separate images.
Did I mention you can get it for free? The developer allows you to pay whatever amount you want for it. They recommend $5, but they'll allow you to take it for nothing. Really though, with software this versatile and polished, you really should throw them a few bucks if you pick it up. It's more than worth it.