Hey there, TA Meta here to look over your work so let's get started.
Beginning with your superimposed lines, you had a little bit of wobbling present in your first page but you tightened this up in the second page, producing confident, flowing lines with minimal fraying thanks to taking your time to line your pen up with the starting point.
Next, your ghosted lines and planes are looking straight and confident. There is a little bit of arcing to some of your lines. Remember that you can rotate the page as much as you like to find the best angle of approach.
Onto your tables of ellipses, which are looking really good. Your ellipses are smooth, confident, and have a good shape to them, and you've packed them in there tightly, not leaving big gaps between them.
This same confidence carries over to your ellipses in planes, which is good to see as we prefer students to prioritise confidence over accuracy. You've done a pretty good job getting your ellipses to hit all four sides of the plane and you'll improve at this over time as you practice this exercise in your warm-ups.
Finally, your funnels are also looking pretty good. You did seem to struggle a little drawing the smaller ellipses, so make sure you're not allowing any wrist or elbow action to creep in here. In terms of alignment to the minor axis, you've done quite a good job with only the occasional ellipse skewed off from the axis.
Overall for your box section, it's very clear that you've psyched yourself out a bit here and it has resulted in your lines being significantly wobblier than they have been before this. It's perfectly normal to be a little worried about taking these lines and turning them into boxes, however each of the lines of your boxes should be treated as an individual - with its own planning, ghosting, and confident execution. You can place non-committal dots to figure out where the line should go, but once your pen hits that paper, the time for thinking is done. On your rough perspective, you do seem to have grasped the idea of keeping your horizontals parallel and verticals perpendicular to the horizon line and your estimation of perspective is not too far off the mark - so despite the confidence issues, you've actually done a pretty good job of the exercise.
Onto your rotated boxes and you've done a great job keeping the gaps between your boxes tight and consistent. You didn't quite manage to rotate the outer set of boxes all the way, instead tending to follow the vanishing point of the previous box, rather than having the vanishing point slide along the axis. This is pretty normal and expected however as the last two exercises of lesson 1 are designed to introduce you to some new concepts you can take with you onto the box challenge.
Finally, your organic perspective compositions are looking quite dynamic. You've varied the size of your boxes and overlapped them to convey a great sense of depth in the scenes. My favourites are probably the bottom one on the first page and the middle one on the second page as they demonstrate this exploration of 3D space quite well. Naturally, there is some divergence to your boxes as well as the aforementioned wobbliness however I know you're capable of executing confident lines as you showed me that earlier in your lesson, you just need to relax a little.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge, ensuring to execute each and every one of your lines with planning and confidence.
Oh and one more thing, I do warm up with the exercises, but what do you recommend the three that i should use? or I need to change them every day?
I know you've mentioned "ellipses in planes" I'll focus on this one for sure but any idea about the other two, and the preferred time session?
thanks,,
Hey Meta, thanks a lot that was very helpful.
I was unsure if I really need to plan and ghost each and every line in the boxes section or rather I was afraid to not get it right and the box will relapse. Anyway regarding the 250 box challenge, actually i've already done 150 box before the organic perspective, but unfortunately the pages are unseeable and it's very messy , and when I was doing the organic perspective it goes horrifically bad because i've rushed it, although I knew most of the mistakes, but I burned out from the 150 boxes, sorry >.<
So can I just submit 100 box before lesson 2?
Thanks again I really appreciate your support, I'm looking forward to your response.
Submit the 150 you'd already done along with the 100 additional ones. As to your other question, for your warmups, at the beginning of each sitting you'll pick three exercises from the many you've encountered thus far to do for 10-15 minutes. This means that over time you'll be going through all of them, not just the same three each time. As you continue through the lessons, this collection of exercises will expand to include those encountered through the box challenge, lesson 2, etc.
Noted. Thanks,
Hi,,
I've finished the 100 additional ones, so I have the 250 boxes with me now, but apparently I can't request an official critique until 10 more days, although I thought this time limit is only between the lessons not the challenges. Anyway what should I do know :) is there a recommended new step or something?
Thanks,,
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