Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:53 PM, Tuesday April 21st 2020

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yay, finally i have my lesson one exercises finished.. can't wait to move on to the 250 boxes.. :)

i don't have a fineliner here, so i did it with a ballpoint pen

my local store doesn't sell fineliners, so maybe i have to do lesson 2 in ballpoint as well, is this ok? because i don't want to order ONE pen online...

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12:50 PM, Saturday April 25th 2020

Hey there, it'd be preferable if you could get a fineliner for lesson 2 onwards. I'd suggest you buy a couple because you'll almost definitely go through more than one over the coming lessons.

Starting with your superimposed lines and these are looking straight and confident for the most part. You've limited fraying to one end of your line by taking the time to line up your pen.

Next your ghosted lines and planes are off to a good start, they're fairly confident but there is a significant amount of arcing present. It does feel like, particularly on your ghosted planes, that you're not ghosting your lines perhaps as much as you could be as you seem to be overshooting both ends quite a lot.

Your tables of ellipses are off to a good start - it's good to see that you've drawn through your ellipses twice as well as tried lots of different shapes and sizes. There's quite a few instances where you've got them popping out of the bounds, overlapping, or getting quite loose so make sure you're working to get those ellipses tight up against one another while maintaining a confident flow.

Next your ellipses in planes are confident for the most part. There's some less confident ellipses here which are wobbling quite significantly, so make sure you're ghosting and once the time to execute comes, your brain gets no say as your muscles execute the movement confidently. The ones you've done here that are confident do tend to hit the four sides of the plane fairly well, which is great to see.

Finally, you're skewing many of the ellipses in your funnels, usually by the same amount each time. This might indicate that you need to approach your funnels from a different angle in order to correct the alignment on your ellipses. Additionally, I did see some wobbles in some of your ellipses, similar to your ellipses in planes.

You've done a pretty good job keeping your horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line in your rough perspective. Your line confidence here has taken a significant hit, which we see quite often as students get overwhelmed with taking their lines and turning them into boxes so make sure you're taking it one line at a time and planning each one carefully. In terms of your convergences, you're not doing too badly here, though you do have a tendency to have your lines converge in pairs rather than together towards the shared vanishing point.

Next you've done a great job keeping your boxes tight and consistent on the rotated boxes. This has given you the best chance of placing and rotating your boxes as these lines give you contextual hints about their neighbours. You haven't quite managed the full degree of rotation, tending more to follow the vanishing point of the previously drawn box rather than having the vanishing point slide along the horizon line. That said, these last two exercises are designed to introduce students to new kinds of spatial problems they may not have otherwise considered and aren't expected to nail it at this stage.

Finally, your organic perspective compositions are off to a good start with a good amount of depth being conveyed by the variation in the size of your boxes. Don't be afraid to overlap your boxes to push this sense of depth even further. I did again notice that your lines are getting a bit wobbly and less confident than I know you to be capable of. As with the rough perspective, make sure you take the time to plan out each one of your lines and execute confidently.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge, focusing on planning and confidently executing your lines.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
1:19 PM, Saturday April 25th 2020

yay! thanks a lot meta! :)

this critique is really accurate. and it helps. and you are right, i rushed a bit through the box exercises and did not plan the lines as accurate as with the just-lines-exercises...

have a nice weekend!

:D

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