Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
3:13 AM, Tuesday November 16th 2021
I used a Pigma Micron 08 pen.
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8:43 AM, Friday December 10th 2021
Hi Yonlevert,
I'm Noodlecake and I'll be handling your critique today!
I noticed you did the exercises on ruled paper, while this won't affect your work, it will make it hard for the person trying to review it, especially in the boxes section where there become so many parallel lines that it becomes super cluttered.
LINES
1) In Superimposed lines you have done a great job at positioning the pen at the starting point so there is only fraying at one end, but the lines themselves are wobbly and not confident. At Drawabox, Confidence > Accuracy. A completely straight line that is inaccurate can still look good, but a wobbly one will look bad no matter how accurate it is.
Try drawing fast, confident lines using your shoulder more and don't bother with accuracy for now.
2) Your Ghosted lines have clear starting and ending points, but your lines are wobbling. Use the ghosting method plenty, until your arm feels like it's automatically moving in the drawing motion. Again, accuracy comes after confidence.
3) In your Ghosted Planes it seems like you stuck to your lines and didn't try to correct them much, good work. Again the main issue is the wobbling lines. Your diagonals and bisectors don't seem to be meeting at the center a lot of the time. Remember to draw the diagonals first to find the centre, then draw bisectors that pass through that center.
ELIPSES
1) Great job on keeping the elipses well spaced and snugly in the tables and drawing through even the smaller elipses. However, your elipses aren't very even and are wobbly. Ghosting more would 100% help with this.
2) In your elipses in planes, same problems with the earlier elipses. I think you are too focused with making the elipses touch all 4 sides, due to which they get unevenly stretched in one direction.
3) You did very well in your funnel spacing, but the minor axis doesn't cut the elipses in half a lot of the time mainly due to the angle of the elipse.
BOXES
1) Your plotted perspective really doesn't have any issues.
2) Try to use coloured pencils or something for the extension lines in rough perspective. Also when adding lineweight look at this : https://imgur.com/OHvr7Mb
3) In Rotated boxes, adding lineweight to boxes and using non-ruled paper would really help the presentation. Overall good spacing between boxes and rotation.
4) Nice work with the depth in Organic perspective, same thing about adding lineweight applies here.
Next Steps:
For extra practice, and so that the concepts of this lesson really sink in, I would like you to do the Lines and Elipses section of this lesson again.
Once done, you may reply to me with your work, and I'll gladly review it!
Regards,
Noodlecake
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