I submitted the complete lesson one homework. I struggled a bit with making the lines straight and not wobbly, but I did improve by the end. There are also some obvious mistakes in some exercises, some I tried to fix, some were past that point. I welcome any critique and suggestions. Thanks!
Hi! I’ll do things a bit differently, this time. This is a fantastic submission, so rather than go through the sections in order, I’ll just give you some quick pointers.
Be careful not to alter the trajectory of your lines, like in some of the longer superimposed lines. If a line runs off-course, boldly continue onto that course- don’t course-correct.
If you’re not already, use start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of your planes. If the line stops short of them, do not extend it. It’s far wiser to leave your mistakes be, usually.
Remember that, despite the complexity of some of the latter exercises, the technical aspects remain unchanged- all you’re doing is drawing a line from point A to point B. If it can be confident in the ghosted lines exercise, it can be confident elsewhere, too. (re: wobble in rough perspective.)
Other than that (and even that was just nitpicks, but I had to say something! xD), this is a really solid submission. Onto the next~
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Thank you for taking the time to review. There are a lot of mistakes in my exercises, but the line precision bothered me the most. I will work on it.
Hi Arthenis,
In my opinion, you understand meaning of this exercises and i see you hard work. I enjoyed watching every page.
The biggest mistakes, which i spotted are in Tables of Ellipses and with Rotation boxes. I would recommend you train
with drawing Circles with Exercise sheet which you can download from internet or simply draw perfect circle by using mug or with compass. I am struggling with this as well. This exercise help me to get muscle memory for my shoulder when i am ghosting Circle in Tables.
For Rotation boxes i will link this https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/step7 which should help you with putting directions of box's edge.
I hope you will get something from my Advices and that will help you with better understanding and better drawing.
Once again your work looks really nice and keep going like this.
Kind regards
Hamsetro
Hi! Thank you for taking the time to review my submission. You are right in pointing out those mistakes. With the rotating boxes I messed up the first line of boxes and the first 4 boxes adjacent to perpendicular lines, but I had to go with it... I will also have to do a lot more exercising with the circles and will try your suggestion. Thanks!
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