Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
2:36 PM, Tuesday January 14th 2025
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Hey Pie, just finished lesson 1 as well and ill keep it quick. remember this is feedback from another learner so take what i say with a grain of salt.
Starting off, when looking at your superimposed lines you do an excelent job of marking lines confidently. They for the most part have a consistent path and dont wobble. there is some fraying at the end of the lines but that is something that we both will get better with as we do more warmups over time. i did notice some fraying at the beginning, so just remember to slow your process down a hair and match the start of the line for each stroke.
Ghosted lines look great, some small bowing and missing points, again this will grow as we get more practice.
Ghosted plans also look fairly good
With the table of ellipses, you do a pretty good job of getting the ellipes to touch the edges of others and the box, with minor misses that will be improved over time. They are consistent ellipses with most of them being symmetrical. Refrain from drawing too many lines with the ellipses, as for many you went over 2 lines.
The tables of ellipses have a couple of deformed ellipses but you do a good job of touching the ellipses to the edges to the best of your ability, again try not to draw too many lines over the ellipses.
the funnels of ellipses exercise was done pretty well, they are touching the sides and while some are off, are very close to alligning correctly on the center minor axis line. I actually believe you're doing pretty good with them, if nothing else maybe give me some critique on my ellipses (if you feel up to it, no pressure).
your plotted perspective is actually solid, some verticals are a hair slanted but it looks good and frankly almost unnoticeable unless youre looking hard for it.
you continue with rough perspective and do a very good job of ghosting the lines, keeping it close to the vanishing point
ill just finish off, youre doing very well, and the rest of your exercises look very good to me. you do a good job of ghosting and executing your lines and you seem to have a decent grasp of the basic perspective were working with, ill let the rest up to someone with more knowledge than myself continue if they have anything to say. If you would, I would appreciate the critique of my own lesson 1 if you have the time. again no pressure, just wanted to ask. thank you for your time and keep working hard
Next Steps:
I believe you can head on to the box challenge, keep doing warmups and improve over time. It is a marathon not a sprint.
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