Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
11:06 AM, Saturday July 23rd 2022
huh so for the first exercise I kinda let myself carried away so it's messy AF...
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4:24 PM, Monday August 8th 2022
Hello D0Z! I'll review your work!
First of all, there is a lot of the lesson work that is incomplete or missing (I marked them on the revision space). Or, if they are done, I can´t see or critique them due to the overall untidiness of the homework. I would suggest to do all the exercises in new and white pages instead of using previously used ones, like I see you did.
I think some of them are annotations of the lessons. And I don't think doing them is bad, in fact, I recommend taking some notes from the videos and the text. But make sure to separate them from the actual homework.
Lines
In your lines I see a lot of wobbling, so make sure you think before every mark you make and you are confident about it. Remember that confidence is more important than accuracy. Also, some of your lines are repeated, meaning you drew them two times. Don't forget that no matter how far off a line may be, you should keep going as if it was right.
Ellipses
Your ellipses are great. But there also wobbling and many of them are not kept within the given bound. Be sure to check how far off the bounds your ellipses are after you draw them, and try to fix it when you draw another one.
Boxes
They have pretty much the same line mistakes mentioned on Lines. Also, you did the Rotated Boxes exercise twice (I think one of them is a note taken form the video but just in case, remember you should not grind). And in Organic Perspective some boxes are in two point perspective, so make sure to be using the Y method of constructing a box.
Next Steps:
Do the Ghosted Lines, Plotted Perspective and one more page of Rough Perspective.
10:20 AM, Tuesday August 9th 2022
Heya !
Thank you so much for your feedback, sorry for the messy upload :x
I did the exercises asked you can check them here:
My lines are a bit wobbly still, especially for the rough perspective exercise I struggle using my full arm for shorts marks.
2:17 PM, Tuesday August 9th 2022
That is much better. And don't worry about the mistakes too much, just keep practising with more confidence and they will disappear. It is the magic of the 250 boxes challenge.
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 boxes challenge, remember not to rush and have fun!
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