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1:10 AM, Saturday May 23rd 2020

Hey!

Overall, this is some great work. However ther are some things to look out for.

The lines in the ghosting exercise are smooth and confident. The elipses you put in the plane exercise are generally well shaped and confident. However, some of them are not drawn through at all, while others seem to be drawn through far more then 2. Remember, draw throuhg your elipses 2-3 times max. No more, no less.

The tables of elipses are actually really good. There are some areas where it seems extremly loose, maybe because of the speed at which you drew them. With the funnels, the outside elipsis should be far wider then the ones more near the center. They should be almost like a circle, rather than just a scaled up verson of the center elipsis.

With the freehand perspective exercise, the lines seem sctatchy. Use the ghosting method for each line, for a clean and confident stroke. Also, the red lines, should not be going back to the vanishing point. The point of the exercise was to see how good you are at freehand perspective, so you should of followed the direction each line was going, and extended it to the horizon. That way, you can see how close you were to the vanishing point. Like the blue lines.

Kudos on completing the rotated boxes! The boxes aren't quite rotating, so you are left with more of a diamond shape rather then a sphere. But don't worry! This is just the first step.

With the organic perspective, the boxes are very sctratchy, like the boxes in the free hand perspective. Use the ghosting method to get a nice clean stroke. And if you made a mistake, don't reinforce it with more lines! It tends to make it more noticable. The boxes almost always follow the line and get smaller. But sometimes they start to get smaller and then halfway through they might stay the same size. The boxes are moving away from the camera and should be getting smaller!

The next thing you should do is the 250 box challenge. This should help you gain a better understanding of objects in 3D space. I'll mark this as complete :)

Next Steps:

Use these exercises as warmups!

Feel free to do the 250 box challenge before lesson 2.

Also, now that you've completed lesson 1, I highly encourage you to join others in critiquing other Lesson 1 community submissions. Not only will it help the community members receive feedback, but it will also help you strengthen your understanding of the concepts covered in this lesson. It's optional, of course, but would be greatly appreciated among the community.

Don't forget to draw for fun! :D

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6:44 PM, Sunday May 24th 2020

Thank you for the effort you put into this critique, I really appreciate it : )

Yes, the ellipses are something I'm struggling with and it'll probably take a while before i can draw them well...

The scratchy lines are a bad habit that I'm in the process of breaking at the moment.

With the freehand perspective exercise, I did not even realise that I had been automatically drawing the lines back to the vanishing point until it was too late, and I had already completed the two pages in that way. (Which I'm very annoyed about actually, but I had to move on as per uncomfortables instructions on not grinding the exercises)

And thank you for pointing out that some of the boxes stay the same size in the organic perspective exercise. I suspected that was the case... I think I was getting frustrated with how strange the boxes were turning out, and I was trying to fix that while the growing box size became an after thought.

I'm certain I'll be much better at that exercise after the 250 box challenge though.

8:09 PM, Sunday May 24th 2020
edited at 8:10 PM, May 24th 2020

As long as you are aware of the problem and are actively trying to improve, it's ok to make mistakes! Plus, on the free hand perspective, you were wildly close to the vanising point exept for a few lines, mine were certainly worse ;)

Also same guy diffrent account oops lol

edited at 8:10 PM, May 24th 2020
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11:24 PM, Friday May 22nd 2020

Hi, BlueBowlsHayStack.

Overall good work on this lesson, but there some things you can definitely pay attention in order to improve.

your work.

On the lines and ellipses parts of the lesson your works is very solid without many major problems. There is some slight wobbling and arching on your ghosted lines, but it's not excessive.

My biggest concern is when you reach the boxes. In all your exercises you keep drawing over the same line more than once, resulting in a very messy work. Doing this doesn't make your work better and hides your mistakes, preventing you from checking them clearly. I believe this is something you can easily avoid, as you proved youhave solid lines on the previous exercises. Also, on the rough perspective exercise you drew the check lines on the vanishing point. This is incorrect. You should extend the lines of your boxes, as this example shows. This way you can check if the perspective lines of your boxes are converging correctly.

On your rotated boxes exercies, some of them are not actually rotating. This section explains it why.

Your organic perspective is mostly good, but going over the same lines is something you should avoid completely, except in order to increase the line weight, which is done with a very specific purpose and in just the outer lines.

Overall you did a good job in this lesson. Keep in mind your mistakes and good luck on the boxes challenge.

Next Steps:

250 boxes challenge.

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6:21 PM, Sunday May 24th 2020

Thank you for taking the time out of your day to write this.

I automatically drew the lines back to the vanishing point on the rough perspective exercise without thinking and only realised after i had done the two pages, but by then it was too late and I had to move on...

Thank you for pointing out that some of the boxes in the rotating box exercise were not actually rotating.

I knew something was causing the diamond shape but I couldn't figure out what.

As for the drawing over the same lines thing you saw...

That's a habit I'll have to break

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