Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
12:49 AM, Friday May 29th 2020
Just finished Lesson 1! Would love some feedback.
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1:17 PM, Friday May 29th 2020
Hello Cauescl,
Lines
You've don quite a good work in this section. Your superimposed lines are really good with minimal fraying.
Ghosted lines are also looks satisfactory. Just try to keep the line it upto the the point. practice to finish the line on the marked point, sometimes it goes throught the point or sometimes it finishes before the point.
Same with the ghosted planes, apart from the lines sometimes not finishing upto the point, everything is nicely done here.
Your overall Line quality is optimum and confident, looks like you understood the concept behind using shoulder to draw. Good at it keep it up.
Ellipses
In the table of ellipses, the ellipses are nice and confident. Using your shoulder is really helping you here.
But here when drawing those ellipses in the planes, your ellipses are lacking some confidence and some of them look wobbly. Because of you wanting to fit those ellipses exactly in to the planes, your brain controlled your strokes and so they look wobbly. Don't try to hit perfection. Sometimes if ellipse doesn't touch one or two edges of plane, that's acceptable because it happens. The main purpose of this exercise is not to exactly fit those ellipses in the planes but it is to practice drawing ellipses in different perspective with confidence and good consistency.
In funnels, again you've done good job for ellipses. So you are able to draw ellipses confidently but just because trying to fit in planes perfectly, it got wobbly.
Boxes
Plotted perspective is obviously good. You've got the idea behind the vanishing point correctly.
You've done rough perspective also in a good way. Your boxes seems good but some them have a few wobbly lines and somewhere the vertical or horizontal lines are not so vertical or horizontal. Your other sets of lines of boxes are good enough, nice try as few of them are reachng the vanishing point.
Even though the rotated boxes are quite challenging ones, you've done a greate job here too! You've really tried so hard for this one, good to appreciate. You understood the purpose behind this exercise and done it nicely.
In organic perspective, the shapes and sizes of the boxes are good, as some of them appear far away and closer too.
This organic perspective exercise would've really worth remarkable, if you didn't overdo the lines of some boxes. When you overdo a line twice or more it actually highlights your mistakes rather than hiding them. Please don't overdo any kind of marks, its better to plan where to start and how to end rather than highlighting it by grinding it. You have a lot of time to think and plan for the best stroke before pen touches the paper, but after that you can't improve the same again, it's time to move on.
I hope, you understand the concept behind my critique. I appreciate your work. Keep practicing and try to move on from mistakes, because a good consistent practice will always improve your work than to grinding them again and again.
Next Steps:
No need to redo or grind anything. Move on to the 250 Boxes challenge, it will improve quality of your work ultimately.
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3:42 AM, Friday May 29th 2020
Hello there pal! I want to congratulate you for the completion of lesson 1. Your works looks great and neat haha! Even though there are some rooms that you need to improve like the ellipses and boxes, but that's okay, practice will make you much better! Good Luck out there fellow pal!
Next Steps:
Those mistakes I said earlier will be corrected by practice, so that's okay. Don't grind too much.
You can go now to the next level!
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