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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

12:47 AM, Sunday September 20th 2020

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Hi everyone.

I'm an Industrial Designer but I never took my sketching classes seriously and my professor never cared about teaching, he just asked for sketches and then tell me and my classmates that they were bad and wrong, but never take the time to explain why.

I really want to get better because sketching is the backbone and the easiest way to design something in a couple of minutes. The whole point is to represent graphically an idea that I or a client just came up with.

It took me a couple of weeks but I just finished Lesson 1. I wanted to understand everything even though some concepts were not new for me. Some of them were clear to me, but they were others that helped me understand why I was doing some stuff wrong.

I know that I need to keep working to improve (and there is a LOT of room for improvement), so I'd appreciate any critique, I won't take it personally if you want to be rough, I can see for myself a lot of mistakes, I just ask you to tell me how you corrected this bad habits I already have.

I want to thank everyone in advance and wish you a great end of 2020.

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9:50 AM, Friday September 25th 2020

Hello Renehnrqz here's my modest critique:

1)Lines: in general you did a great work! However some of your ghosted lines wobble a bit or aren't completely straight, perhaps I'm wrong but could it be that you didn't rotate your page while drawing some of them? if you find it difficult to draw try to rotate the page to find a more comfortable angle, or maybe just ghost a bit more.

Superimposed lines are done well!

the ghosted planes are also well drawn.

2) Ellipses: Well done! your ellipses are all well ghosted and have all flow very well. However there you draw more than 2/3 times in every ellipses related exercise, as far as i remember 3 times was the max! Anyhow they all fit perfectly within their planes in the ellipses in planes exercises, and in the table of ellipses they don't overlap other ellipses so you did really a fine job here imho.

Funnels are also well drawn and centered.

3) Boxes

Plotted perspective is great, didn't do anything wrong.

Rough perspective is also done well, some of the lines don't reach the vanishing point and are completely going into another direction, but others either do get to the vs or get very close to it so I feel like you did well, I can only tell you to try again and again after some times most of them will either center the vs or get close to it.

Rotated boxes is well done!

Can't really critique organic perspective that well, but it seems also well done.

Imho you can move to the 250 boxes

Next Steps:

move to the challenge, take your sweet time cause it takes quite a lot, draw for fun and warm up with these exercises before drawing the boxes.

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11:02 PM, Tuesday November 10th 2020

Hi LALINCECHELANCIA.

I really appreciate the critique. Some of the points you mention I've already noticed and I'm working on them, some I didn't but I'll be more careful to keep improving.

Thanks, René.

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