Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
5:52 PM, Monday April 5th 2021
I finished the Lesson 1 about a week ago, here is every exercise, it was a great learnig experience
Hi! Here's my critique of your work.
Lines
Superimposed Lines
Pretty solid. Most of your superimposed lines were only fraying at the end, with a few exceptions, where the start was also frayed as well (mainly on the first page). Just keep in mind to make sure you're positioning your pen correctly, before ghosting a line.
Ghosted Lines/Planes
I noticed some of your lines arching in the opposite direction. Make sure you're using your shoulder to draw your shoulder when drawing your lines. Though, if it still persists, you can it try to arch consciously to the opposite direction while drawing that said line. You may read it up here. Don't forget that you can rotate your page to a comfortable angle before ghosting/executing a line.
However, most of your lines seemed to be smooth without much wobbling, that's great!
Ellipses
Tables of Ellipses
Try to have your ellipses kept within the bounds of the table they're in, without overflowing out of them, or overlapping between other ellipses. Just like drawing normal lines, you can rotate your page/ghost your ellipses as many times as you need before executing them with confidence.
Ellipses in Planes
Most of your ellipses touched all four sides within its plane, except for just a small few, where it missed touching a side otherwise.
Funnels
The minor axis (the line in the middle) should be cutting ellipses in 2 symmetrical halves. Some of your ellipses were aligned to that said axis (allowing it to be cut symmetrically), some were not.
Overall, remember to ghost your ellipses whenever necessary, and try not to have them overflow out of the space they're assigned to (applies the Ellipses in Planes and Funnels exercises as well).
Boxes
Plotted Perspective
No problems here.
Rough Perspective
WhiIe it's really minimal, I noticed that you had repeated some of your lines here. No matter how off a line is, try not to repeat it at all, keep the line as it if were correct and move on. You may risk your lines being messy otherwise.
Besides that, your width lines should be parallel to the horizon line, with the height lines perpendicular to horizon line. Reason being, I noticed that some lines were rather than being slanted/angled than they should be. Here's an example of what I mean from your work. You can read from the homework notes which goes into this problem here.
Though, it's understandably hard to get this down because you may need a bit of precision. You can try to make sure that your points line up to each other.
Rotated Boxes
Just a minor issue, I noticed some boxes were missing? Though that aside, your boxes are rotating, good job!
Organic Perspective
I noticed a few lines of your boxes being parallel instead of converging, shown here. Though, most of your boxes were converging otherwise, which is good. You can check this image to show the difference of converging (expected for 3 Point Perspective Boxes) and parallel lines.
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 Box Challenge, you'll be able to practice more drawing of 3 Point Perspective Boxes, and ghosting of lines. You can do any of the previous exercises as your initial warm-up, before doing your homework.
Thank you so much for your feedback!
Hello there, hope you're having a great day! I'm here to take a look at your work.
Lines
Your lines look pretty good honestly. You managed to always draw your lines with both confidence and accuracy which is really difficult to pull off at this level. One thing I would like to point out is that in the superimposed lines exercise, you didn't experiment with wavy/curved lines that much. Even though they're harder to draw, I would like you to try drawing them occasionally.
Ellipses
Again, just like your lines, your ellipses look really clean. I saw a couple of ellipses that weren't drawn through but I'm sure that wasn't intentional. In the funnels exercise, you have some misaligned ellipses but that's completely normal for now. Again, in the funnels exercise, you have some gaps between the ellipses. Try to ghost through each ellipse until you get a feel of how they sit on the paper. Also, you occasionally failed to keep some of your ellipses within their bounds. Now, this is obviously not desired but I've noticed that even when your ellipses weren't fitting like they were supposed to, you didn't try to correct them. You still prioritized confidence even when you realized you were making a mistake. Great job!
Perspective
Both rough and plotted perspective look great! Some slightly wobbly lines in the rough perspective exercise though.
Rotated Boxes
You forgot to draw the far-end boxes of the exercise but other than that, I can tell that you followed the instructions as closely as you can.
Organic Perspective
Other than some correction lines, organic perspective looks pretty good! Always remember that trying to correct your lines with ink will only shift the viewer's attention to your mistakes.
Overall, you did an amazing job! I hope you weren't grinding these lessons though.
I'll mark this lesson as complete so here are some helpful links for the box challenge: placing the inner corner, different orientations of boxes. That last link is for inspiration only, make sure to draw from your imagination.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me here tag me on discord, good luck!
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 Boxes Challenge, make sure to use some of the exercises from this lesson as a warmup later on.
Thank you so much!
Don't worry I didn't grind any of these, is just that I have done some exercise in the past that are something like these
Thank you for your feedback, working in the 250 Box Challenge now!
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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