Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
8:55 PM, Thursday September 24th 2020
I hope it's good enough to proceed to lesson 02!
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9:41 PM, Monday September 28th 2020
Hello there, it is critique time :)
-Super imposed lines
You start off pretty strong with these and nearly almost all off them clearly start at one point. Your long super imposed lines have some wobble in there. Usually a bit of a wobble means you confidence dropped a bit with them. Were you going a bit slower on those? (Please do say you went a bit slower here so i can be sure if i need to add some things.) The short ones and the curvy ones overall look pretty good.
-Ghosted lines.
Most of these seem to be arching to one side meaning you used your elbow in those. Consciously arching in the opposite direction should negate your natural arch and you will make them straighter as time goes on. A few have a wobble where you were a bit unsure but keep in mind, keep ghosting until you are completely sure to make your mark. Confidence first and eventually accuracy will follow.
-Ghosted planes
I am afraid i cannot say anything here.
-Tables of ellipses
On your first page i saw a few that were presumably done with one ellipse. Keep in mind you go through your ellipse 2 to 3 times. A few were overshooting into other ellipses and one out of the box but for the most part they are snuggly in bounds.
-Ellipses in planes
Here for the most part the wobbly seems to be gone, which is great! But i do see some arching lines. Here applies what i said about trying to consciously go into the opposite direction or use the elbow less.
The ellipses themselves are mostly well done and touching each side. Ghosting the ellipse aplies here. Do the ghosting slow and hit each side and go a bit faster till you are confident and do the ellipse itself going through it 2 to 3 times.
-Funnels
Here i see you started to stumble a bit on on what you had to do.Every ellipse should touch the previous one and gradually get wider from the middle as you can see in the homework example
Your ellipses seem to stay the same width without getting wider. What you did do well howeevr, is that they follow the minor axis.
-Plotted perspective
You did these really good! I don't see any distortion and the line in the back you normally don't see isn't miss placed.
-Rough perspective
Seeing zome arching line but it's nice to see you didn't draw over a line when it wasn't needed.
You'll get better at going to the VP when you have done the 250 box challenge so don't worry about that for now.
-Rotated boxes
Holy Smokes! Your sure know how to present something looking neat and they are nice and close together.What i did notice is that your boxes don't seem to rotate. The ones around the middle box seem to be alright but the ones next to that are a bit wide. Less front is shown on the ones on the outer ring as shown in the example.
And finally
-Organic perspective
They flow nicely but you could've exaggerated those by making those bigger. Bit more box variety could be used to but here, i do see that the lines are straight! And i see clear overlap with some line weight with the ones that do overlap.
To quickly summarize, your lines were wobbly and arching but as you slowly went to boxes they got straighter. Ellipses were nicely done and only thing you really stumbled on were the funnels. I will ask for a revision to see ghosted planes but that's it.
Next Steps:
2 pages of the missing ghosted planes.
5:15 PM, Thursday October 1st 2020
Hi! Thank you very much for taking the time to go through my exercises and critique them!
-Super Imposed lines
I actually had trouble finding a good speed with the longer ones. I tried both going slower or faster and it resulted in those wollby lines
-Ghosted lines
I tried really hard to use the shoulder but I ended up leaning on the table often times, limiting my arms movements to those of the elbow.
-Funnels
I see. I didn't get that! Thanks.
-Rotated boxes
That's so nice to hear! :D
Yeah, I had trouble rotating them and ended up not doing so enough.
Before every session I always try to draw the ellipses in the ghosted planes and my lines are getting a little better though I do still have a tendency to arch them. I'll try your suggestion and upload the two pages of ghosted planes soon.
Thank you very much again!!
EDIT: I've posted the extra two pages of Ghosted Lines
5:17 PM, Friday October 2nd 2020
I'm not sure how far you lean on your table but you can sit straight up. Your wrist rests on the paper and a bit of the lower arm can too but the elbow should be free. Keep trying to find the right one to make sure you have enough space to draw.
But about the ghosted planes, i'm seeing arching lines but you'll improve on those if you add everything to the warm-up list and keep going on using the shoulder and going in the opposite direction of where you go with those.
Next Steps:
You did well, now it is time for the 250 box challenge.
Good luck and keep it up!
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