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6:11 AM, Saturday May 11th 2024
Hey there, I'm Meta and I'll be your TA today, so let's get started.
Lines
Starting with your superimposed lines, you're doing a great job lining your pen up with the starting point and executing your lines confidently. This continues through your ghosted lines and planes which are looking fantastic.
Ellipses
Onto your tables of ellipses and these are off to a great start. Your linework is confident for the most part, though there are some wobbles here and there, so make sure you're confidentally making the mark all the way through. You've selected a good variety of shapes and sizes of ellipses to practice, and you've kept them squeezed up tight against each other.
Next your ellipses in planes are looking good, you've made clear attempts to hit the four sides of the plane while remaining confident and not over-focusing on accuracy. I did notice on a few of these ellipse exercises that you've got some little marks that look like you've hit the page with your ghosting before dropping it down, so something to keep in mind.
Finally, your funnels are off to a good start - you're making good efforts getting the ellipses aligned to the minor axis however make sure you're executing your marks confidently - whilst we're drawing with a clear goal in mind, we should always try to prioritise confidence over accuracy as the latter will develop with time and practice.
Boxes
Onto your rough perspective and you've made fairly successful efforts to keep the horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line. You've correctly applied the line extensions and your perspective lands in a pretty normal margin of error.
Your rotated boxes are off to a good start - you're keeping the gaps between the boxes tight and consistent, which has given you good cues about where to place the next one. You didn't manage to capture the full range of rotation, tending to follow the vanishing point of the box you previously put down, however this exercise is intended only as an introduction to certain concepts you will explore further throughout the course.
Finally, you're getting a good amount of variation in the size and rotation of your boxes in the organic perspective exercise which is starting to create a sense of depth in each frame. The second page is particularly nice with the overlapping of the boxes and much greater range of size between smallest to largest. The boxes themselves are diverging a bit in places, however like the previous exercise, this one is simply an introduction to the concepts you'll explore in depth in the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge
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Staedtler Pigment Liners
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).