Congratulations on completing Lesson 1. My name is Rexplosive and I am a community member who has just finished Lesson 1 myself. Please see my critique for your viewing.
Your superimposed lines look good. I can see on your first page, that the larger lines show signs of trying to correct the trajectory of the line. A little bit of wobbling. But as we move on to your second page of lines, the confidence in your lines starts to show more. As you continue to practice your line confidence, this will improve. You are consistent with your first point and fray only at one end. Good start. Your ghosted lines are good. You do a good job at making it almost exactly from point to point. Want to continue to show that confidence with execution of straight planned lines. If you take your time with ghosting it pays off to see these lines that are smooth, straight and consistent (free from hesitation and wobbling). Similarly your ghosted planes are done well too.
Your tables of ellipses are great. I can see that you have drawn through all of your ellipses. None look odd shaped, or egg shaped. You continue this through to your ellipses in planes. I can see also you did an additional set of ghosted planes. Remember your focus at this point is more so to maintain the shape, and not worry about accuracy for now. For example, some ellipses in your planes are not as well shaped as the ones on your tables. It seems you were focused on getting them inside the planes. Accuracy will come with time. It is more important to get the shape consistent (smooth) and the lines confident (not wobbly). Accuracy may be the end goal, but it really should not be forced. It will come with mileage and consistent practice. Your funnels show that confidence in line execution, and consistent shape we saw earlier in your lines. Only thing to mind here, is the axis. We want to make sure ellipses in relation to the axis are basically splitting them in half. If we were to fold each ellipses, each side should overlap to show that the ellipses are aligned with the minor axis. None the less, good spacing and ellipses.
Plotted perspective looks really good. There is nothing really for me to say here about those. Your rough perspective also looks good. Keep in mind what uncomfortable said about the "units of effort" we tend to apply to the construction of the shapes we make (https://youtu.be/5cciOw9z6IU?t=452). Remember to consistently take your time breaking into steps each line we make to construct a box. This will become more evident in the 250 box challenge. Do not think of the box you are making as a single unit and rush it. Make sure you take your time with each line as you would if you were simply just drawing lines. 1. prepare 2. ghost 3. execution everytime. Otherwise, rough perspective is actually good. You are drawing your lines back to the horizon to see where it might have gone wrong. Where you have gone wrong is not as important as the understanding of the exercise, which you show you have understood the point. The estimations were off, but in the next 250 box challenge your intuition will improve.
Your rotated boxes look great. You did a good job at keeping this together. Narrow gaps and consistent. You used the neighbouring forms effectively. You drew through the boxes. This is a tough exercise and you did great. Later as you do this exercise, you may see some improvement in rotation of each "level" of boxes. This will show a greater emphasis in the change of rotation as each level will have a vanishing point further along the axis.
Your organic exercise looks pretty good as well. You can see your confidence in using the ghosting method shows all the way to the end of lesson 1. Drawing from your shoulder. Your box shapes are pretty good. I am sure that will transfer well into the next 250 box challenge.
Overall a great submission that shows understanding of the purpose to each exercise and promise of growth. I believe you understand the concepts and will continue to improve your accuracy amongst other skills. I believe this is worthy of a completion and you should be able to move on to the 250 box challenge. Good job, keep it up!
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 box challenge :)
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