Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:11 AM, Friday September 17th 2021
Finally!!
Hey Pikasfy! Let's get started:
Lines:
They're looking good: your lines are confident and close to being accurate on some of your superimposed exercises. Even when you don't hit the end point, you don't repeat the line, which is good. I would suggest incorporating more curved and arched ghosted lines when doing your warm-ups in the future.
For the ghosted planes, I will note that a couple of your planes on your first page were missing some of their inner vertical lines.
Ellipses:
In your ghosted planes with ellipses, I noticed specifically with the second page that quite a few of your ellipses were drawn through more than the suggested 2 to 3 times. Do not do this! Not just because it is messy, but also because mistakes are a part of the learning process, and doing it only 2 or 3 times will help build accuracy and muscle memory over time.
Reinforcing the previous point here as well with the tables of ellipses exercise; the first section in the top left corner on your first page of ellipses only had the ellipses drawn through once. Again, make sure you are drawing through your ellipses with confidence. Accuracy will come with time and practice.
Your tables of ellipses are fairly well done, as well as your funnels. For future reference, make sure you are staying within the bounds that are being created (the "walls" for the tables of ellipses, the "funnel" for the funnels), although this is only especially prevalent in the funnels specifically.
Boxes:
Overall, this section is well done; a few notes below:
In rough perspective, make sure your horizontal lines are parallel to the horizon line and the vertical lines are perpendicular to it. Good job making sure to extend your correction lines, as it will help you point out your mistakes.
For your rotated boxes, you did well to keep the corners close; however, the boxes in the top right corner are not rotating like the rest of the corners are.
Your organic perspective was done well. Your linework when going over the boxes is a little off, and some boxes have lines that extend further than the box itself, but not anything that won't go away with practice.
Do not worry too much about the mistakes in this section, as you will get better at them when going through the 250 box challenge.
Good job getting through the first lesson!
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
Congrats! You're free to move on to the next part! This challenge will help you improve on the things you may have struggled with in lesson 1, along with your spatial reasoning. Remember not to rush and take breaks when it gets difficult! :)
You may also begin doing lesson 1 exercises for your warm-ups.
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