Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
1:12 AM, Monday April 26th 2021
After Plotted Perspective the ink in my pen started to end :(
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11:36 PM, Tuesday May 4th 2021
Hello Kamez0R, today I'll be doing my best to critique your work :]
Congrats on completing lesson 1!
To start it's not very noticeable that your pen is dying, so don't worry.
I will divide this critique into 3 category of Lines, Ellipses, and Boxes.
Lines
Your lines are not too great and not bad, it's functional. Plotted Lines have this level of wobbliness but it's pretty consistent overall. One thing to add is to be more confident in your lines, and don't focus too much accuracy early on. Some lines are arching, to counter this try to arch the opposite way of your lenience to arch. This applies to the Ghosted Planes too. Overall you are going to the right direction, just keep pushing those lines as long as you are early in Lesson 1.
Ellipses
Ellipses are fine and quite confident, they follow most of the guidelines needed for the completion of this homework. Ellipses in Tables are not overlapping with each other which is good, but personally it lacks variety (though it's not a deal breaker). Ellipses in Funnels are okay, what's important in this homework is being able to cut the ellipses in 2 symmetrical halves with varying sizes. Your Ellipses tend to be a leaning a bit in either direction, thus making few errors - try fixing this by ghosting longer and make sure yourself that you get that intention of the ellipse. If you already did that, then you are on the right direction.
Boxes
Since Lines is a part of boxes, your lines seemed to improve here which is always a good sign. Your boxes are good, there's not much to say for me personally. Plotted Perspective is good, Organic Perspective look like they are foreshortening, Rotated Boxes being not perfect serves it purposes - maybe some boxes need to be kept to each other closer and boxes look hesitant in rotating sometimes. I think you did well on this one (or at least understand what you are aiming for). Keep pushing it!
Next Steps:
Do 250 boxes to train your mileage and confidence of lines and boxes. Keep up with the work, you are going on a right direction!
6:23 PM, Monday May 10th 2021
I was really struggling to understand what happens with plotted lines, had some good lines and them some really curve lines going on. Them I noticed that I had no confidence about my lines and made some of them really slow.
I had those problems ellipses, where I made the ghost method, but after start I would screw it.
With boxes I had these problem starting it, them screwing the other sides of the box. I tryied to rotate but something seemed out, yet still I kept trying to see how the box would look like rotated.
Thanks for your critique, I will start to practice more my lines and confidence.
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