Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:14 PM, Monday May 24th 2021

Lesson 1 - Google Drive

Lesson 1 - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rV9ScL3LmECjfKDulWn9KqKLyozGhQgM?usp=sharing

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2:07 AM, Wednesday May 26th 2021
edited at 2:07 AM, May 26th 2021

Hi Noxas! Overall you're doing well, I'll go over the issues I found so you can keep improving, let's go!:

Starting with your lines your superimposed lines are looking pretty confident which is great! The only thing with them is that they tend to arc a little bit at times, so give this a read.

You're also not doing any curves, so remember to practice them from now on on your warmups.

Ghosted lines are the same as the superimposed lines, they only have the arcing issues, so focus on that from now on.

Lastly, on the ghosted planes you aren't drawing the starting and ending dots for every line. Make sure to always draw them as it's super important for applying the ghosting method correctly.

Moving onto your ellipses you're mostly drawing them confidently, which is great, but specially the narrower ones get a little bit wobbly and pointy. Always remember that drawing them confidently and rounded is the most important thing, accuracy comes after.

Make sure you're applying the ghosting method and drawing with your shoulder in the smaller ones as well. They are a wobblier compared to the others.

On the tables with ellipses I can see that you're warping the ellipses to fit the planes. Make sure you always draw them as confidently as you can. And remember how ellipses are. Warping them to make them fit the planes will make them stop being ellipses, as they'll stop being symmetrical.

Lastly on the funnels you're doing mainly a good job alligning them, but they're specially wobbly. Here as well confidence is more important than accuracy. So always focus on it first.

Lastly on the boxes section there are a few things I want to say:

-On the boxes you're drawing the dots way too big. If you draw them so big it'll make it harder to asses how you did on the ghosted lines exercises, so make them as small as you were doing them before on in the previous exercises.

-I can also see you're repeating lines when they're off sometimes several times. Whenever one line is off, just move on to the next, repeating them will only make the drawing look messier and will encourage bad habits.

-On rough perspective some of the vertical and horizontal lines are a bit tilted. So remember that on this exercise all height lines will always be perpendicular to the horizon line and all width lines will be parallel to the horizon line.

One thing that can help is to make sure the lines have this relationship before drawing them, and if they don't have it you can redraw the initial and ending dots as much as you want until you think it's correct.

-On the rotated boxes exercise your boxes aren't close together which makes the exercise a lot harder to do, take a look at how separated your boxes actually are here, and the boxes aren't rotating. Pay special attention to those things next time you do the exercise, you managed to keep it clean though, which is great giving how hard this exercise is!

-Lastly on the organic perspective exercise I think you're getting a bit overwhelmed and starting skipping steps. Whenever you feel like you start to rush go take a break and come back later. No need to finish each exercise in one go.

The main problem is the ghosted lines. Make sure you always place starting and ending dots for every line and that you always ghost them until you're confident.

And you're also not drawing through some boxes, such as here .

You're making good progress on making the lines on the boxes converge which is great! You will work on their issues on the box challenge so no need to worry about it.

Like I said you're doing a good job, but before moving on I want to make sure you understood the things I said, so I want you to do:

-1 more page of rough perspective

-1 more page of funnels

-1 more page of rotated boxes

Good luck and keep it up! You're almost there!

Next Steps:

-1 more page of rough perspective

-1 more page of funnels

-1 more page of rotated boxes

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 2:07 AM, May 26th 2021
4:45 PM, Sunday May 30th 2021

Thank you! I really appreciate the critque. I'll spend some time reviewing the lessons and applying this info. I'll have the revisions soon!

11:04 PM, Monday July 5th 2021

Sorry for the delay. I'm still struggling with the rotated boxes (Found myself guessing and getting frustrated for the secondary and tertiary boxes) and making lines with confidence. The do over helped though. Let me know if the links work:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UBaZ229oaMx_5TtA1ZHILZxGmwIU7J0i?usp=sharing

6:10 PM, Tuesday July 6th 2021
edited at 6:11 PM, Jul 6th 2021

No problems about the delay! Take as much time as you need with each page, the more effort you put in on each mark you do the better!

Overall you're making good progress:

-The funnels are more confident now, though sometimes you draw through them only once, make sure you draw through them always 2-3 times, no less no more.

Sometimes they aren't alligned as well. The middle line has to cut the ellipses in 2 symmetrical halves, so make sure you always aim for it even if that means you need to ignore the curves.

-On rotated boxes you're now rotating some of the boxes and kept some of them close, though I can see that you got confused, which is completely normal as this exercise is very hard. Take a look at this diagram I made, that hopefully helps you to keep the boxes close more consistently.

-And lastly on rough perspective you're doing a better job at keeping the verticals and horizontals correct, but the lines are a bit wobbly.

Like I said previously, it's super important that you focus first on confidence over accuracy. A confident line is always going to be better than a wobbly line, here is an example that hopefully makes it a bit clearer. Try to think about every line after drawing the starting and ending dots as a single ghosted lines exercise. If you draw the confident line you win, if you don't you fail. The result on the actual box doesn't matter at all, focus on the individual exercise.

And just as a reminder you should be drawing all lines with your shoulder and ghosting them, no matter how small they are.

Before moving on I want you to do one more frame of rough perspective and another of organic perspective, to make sure you can draw confident lines on boxes. Good luck and keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

-1 frame of rough perspective

-1 frame of organic perspective

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 6:11 PM, Jul 6th 2021
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