Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:34 AM, Thursday October 15th 2020
Hi, this is my first time submitting to draw a box. Don't hold back. Let me know where I can improve.
So please take all of this with a grain of salt as I just completed lesson 1 myself =] So to me i think your following lessons look really good:
Superimposed lines
Ghosted lines
Ghosted planes
Ellipses in planes
Funnels
Plotted Perspectives
Your superimposed like were very good and strong same with the ghosted lines for all your other lessons as well. For the other lessons here is what I noticed and again...I haven't gotten my critques back yet so I may be off in what i'm telling you but I'm just going of text that is in the lessons themselves.
"Strive to make your circles touch the top and bottom of the box, as well as the line to the left of it
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Then fill these spaces with circles or ellipses, trying to keep them touching the bounds of the section as well as the curve. Everything should fit in there snugly, and nothing should be floating around."
So while your tops and bottoms are good and touch, the sides are not and the ellipses float around in your box. So if you look at the examples, if you start from the left side of the box, your top/bottom/left of your circles will be touching a line. For the second circle again your top/bottom will be touching a line and the left of the circle will be touching the right side of the first ellipses...etc...hopefully that makes sense.
Rough persepective - Some of these are fine but i noticed that you did not draw the sight lines for all of the boxes on the second page.
Rotated Boxes - i don't know if this matters or not...but i noticed you did more boxes going out to the sides than they did in the example...again...i don't know if this matters...but it does give the image look more oval like as opposed to more cirular since those areas are drawn out a bit further because theres more boxes...
Organic Perspectives - I think your boxes in these look really good! I mention this cause i had the same issue, i noticed your lines that are closer to you are lighter and as you progress into the distance, they boxes and the line gets darker. Should be the opposite...Lines closer to you should be darker and as they get further in the distance they will get lighter. I had the same issue with my boxes. With those felt tip pens, small lines just have a darker appearance its actually hard for me to press light enough for them to be lighter. But ya the boxes and flow itself look really good.
Hopefully that is a little bit helpful! Looking good! Keep up the good work =]
Next Steps:
My only suggestion to retry would be the table of ellipses again and have them all close to one another like in the lesson examples.
Thank you so much! I was really nervous posting them. I'll reread the exercises and also on how to critique and do the same for you. I really appreciated this feedback! I hope to gain more feedback from the community.
Heyo, hope you're having a wonderful day.
Imposed Lines: They look great, only thing is that some of them wobble a bit, but eventually you'll get the hang of it. I do recommend to use this exercise as a warm up before sketching or doing any lessons because it totally helps out with making your mark and gaining that confidence as well.
Ghosted Lines: They all look accurate and confident, nice. Just remember to favor confidence over accuracy so that you don't sacrifice the confidence in your mark.
Ghosted Planes: They all look confident and accurate, nice job dude.
Table of Ellipsis: They all look pretty good, just remember to keep the loops to about 2-3 loops and feel free to practice ghosting the ellipsis before making your mark so that you build up that muscle memory and confidence as well, because a see that some of them wobble. I do recommend that you practice with varying degrees, (in different sections of the tables), so that it doesn't feel like a uniform of degrees.
Ellipsis in Planes: They all fit snug inside the planes, however I do see that a few of them are wobbly and not so confident as well. But they do hit each corner evenly as well.
Funnels: For most of the ellipsis, the alignment is mostly on point, however towards the bottom they tend to align towards one or the other side of the ellipse. Something that helped me when I was making the funnels was that I drew the thinnest ellipsis in the center first and then drew the ellipsis with the largest degree on the outside for reference.
Plotted Perspective: Looks good.
Rough Perspective: I've noticed that you haven't drawn some of the lines back towards the horizon line, and you haven't really drawn all lines in a lot of the boxes as well.
Rotated boxes: The exercise was rough on my end as well, don't fret about it too much. I did notice that the overall shape is more of an oval than a circle tho, and that some of the boxes have a bit of a weird perspective as well.
Organic Perspective: Looks good dude.
Hope this crit helps out.
Next Steps:
I do recommend redoing the table of ellipsis, rough perspective and funnels. They can be a bit of a rough exercise but as long as you know what to aim for in each exercise, it'll eventually come naturally to you dude.
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