Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
5:31 PM, Thursday June 4th 2020
Submission for Lesson 1 C:
I've been learning to draw for about 1.5 months.
Please teach meh!
Hello STR3TCH!
Overall, nicely done.
Lines:
Your lines demonstrate confidence with smooth and consistent strokes. On rare occasions, they arc or waver a little as you draw the line to its target. As you continue to practice your lines, start thinking about the different levels of successful lines.
Ellipses:
You’re off to a good start; the ellipses are generally smooth and confident. Occasionally, they wobble and sometimes lose its roundedness as you fit the ellipse into the allotted space. Prioritize developing smooth, confident strokes. Then start to work on maintaining its roundedness, and then accuracy. The ellipses along the funnels’ minor axis are generally aligned. Great job drawing through your ellipses appropriately, about 2-3 times (though there are some exceptions here and there).
Boxes:
As you continue on to your boxes, I notice your lines are still confident. However, there are repeated, corrected lines. No matter how tempting it is to correct a line, do not repeat over it to correct it. If/when applying line weight, apply the same ghosting techniques and draw through with your shoulder to maintain a confident line (just as with the superimposed lines). In this case however, just apply superimpose the line once over and not multiple times.
Rough perspective:
You’ve done a fairly decent job maintaining horizontal lines to be parallel to the horizon line, and vertical lines are perpendicular to it. There are a couple of these lines, however, that tends to stray off slightly diagonally but not too bad.
Rotating boxes:
Kudos on getting through this exercise! The boxes are generally rotating, so nice job. They are pretty well neighbored to each other and are drawn through, which is great.
Organic perspective:
As the boxes get gradually smaller on the path, they appear to be further away from the viewer. There are some boxes’ set of parallel lines that diverge away, where the farther planes of the box appear to get larger and make the perspective feel off. No worries though; you will get to work on these more in the 250 box challenge.
With that, congratulations on completing Lesson 1!
Next Steps:
Continue to use these exercises as part of your warm ups (about 10-15 minutes)
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge
Don’t forget to take breaks and draw for fun!
Also, now that you’ve completed Lesson 1, I encourage you to critique some Lesson 1 community submissions. Not only will this help the community, but it will also solidify and help reinforce your understanding of the material. If you’d be willing to help, a guide was created by one of our community members on how to go about critiquing Lesson 1 here: https://pastebin.com/dYnFt9PQ
Thanks CLUMSY PENGUIN, for the valuable critique.
As of writing this reply, i have started the and completed about 40 boxes from the 250 Box challenge. i have already seen some improvement in my work and agree that i need to restrain my attempts to Correct a line.
I started the challenge, with some recommendations i sourced from ScyllaStew's video wherein UNCOMFORTABLE critiqued her lesson 1 work, whilst waiting for a critique.
Thank you for the meaningful critique! i will actively try to implement your recommendations immediately.
You're welcome; glad I can help. Good luck with the box challenge!
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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