Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

10:41 AM, Thursday September 19th 2024

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I didnt quite understand the organic perspective excersie, the idea of bringing it closer and farther away aswell as rotation.

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11:20 AM, Monday September 30th 2024

Hi, I looked through your lesson 1 submitted homework, and i will try my best to critique it.

Keep in mind that my remarks could be just plainly wrong as i am also someone that just submitted his homework from lesson 1 for feedback and this is also my first time giving critique in this community. So my remarks could be based on wrongly understood guidelines in this lesson.

Also, my first language is not English so bear with me 

So let's get to the point ;)

Superimposed Lines

Looking pretty good. Confident, straight and accurate lines. Some wobbling here and there but overall great.

There is also this weird part with long lines on one page where you've started your lines not from the set beginning but it is something that didn't recure so it's all good ;)

Ghosted Lines

Yet again confident, straight and accurate lines. Maybe this time i can see some internal battle between being accurate and confident and sometimes being accurate comes on top which comes out in some wobbling or curved lines. It's still not a constant so i think that it is something you struggle with (i struggle with it to ). But i think i should mention this as a reminder that keeps popping up in this lesson that a confident line is more important than an accurate line.

Ghosted Planes

This time this accurate line issue is more apparent. You put too much effort on closing the plane and making a perfect plane which makes the line not so straight. Don't get me wrong it is not too much of an error in your homework but something to keep your mind on i guess.

But speaking of errors there is one minor in this part. ALL lines should be ghosted in this assignment where you mark your starting and ending points and then ghost and draw the line. You've only marked lines for the sides and diagonal lines but not for the crossed ones. Here is an example: https://imgur.com/CSQFPt8

Ellipses

Your elipses are looking really good. Only nitpick i could find is that you don't always draw through your elipses as was requested in the assignment 2 or 3 times. Sometimes you went with more like 1,5 times. But still it occured only several times so its not a big deal

Funnels

All good :)

Plotted Perpective

For the most part everything seems good. Nothing worth mentioning

Rough Perspective

So i can see you've struggled here but i am also able to notice that in those few attempts you've made an improvement.

The only errors i can point out are that again there is too much effort going for the accurate line and this time it is really apparent.

I would suggest when doing some wormups to try this assignment from time to time.

Rotated Boxes

Great attempt with this one :)

Organic Boxes

Nice job with this one. For 95% perspective looks good only a few slip ups here and there.

Again the issue here is with lines that could be more confident. 

Summary

So overall your homework looks good :).

I can't say you had any major errors. The only thing i would keep notice of in your shoes are confident lines.

Don't sweat about corners being perfect, confident lines are something you should be practicing to train your muscle memory.

Keep up the good work :)

Oh. And also, if you could spare a moment and critique my work i would be grateful, if not no worries.

Next Steps:

Not sure what should i put here (:

  • practice confident lines, maybe combined with rough perspective

  • 250 boxes challenge

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4:52 PM, Friday October 4th 2024

Thank you very much for the critique! I agree o subconsciously tend to come for accurate lines over confidant lines, I'll ne sure to keep putting thought into them being confidant over accurate. Also thanks for the critiques on the Ghosted planes, I didn't even notice I wasn't plotting the lines at times ????

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