Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
5:03 PM, Monday April 3rd 2023
Lesson 1 Complete
Hello MOON03, congratulations on finishing Lesson One.
I will be looking over your submission.
Lines:
Your Superimposed lines have a good confident stroke with little to no fraying at beginning that is a really nice attempt, you have also given a try to superimpose arches as well which is another good go and as for the fraying at end, do not worry about accuracy for now, that will improve over time with deliberate practice (or warmups).
Same goes for your Ghosted lines, good confident strokes, but, I witnessed that in some cases you have drawn over another mark to rectify the trajectory of original mark, so I have to say that you should absolutely avoid correcting your inital mark, as that song says you have only one shot, so no matter how inaccurate your initial mark is, treat it as the correct one and move forward with that, no correcting at all, so do take an important note of this for your future exericses and warmups.
Same again for Ghosted planes, good confident strokes, but also it seems you have not placed the start and end points(dots) for the lines going through/inside the planes that is the middle and diagonal ones, so again I shall point out that we should not aim for arbitrary or freehand lines, marking the starting and end point, properly ghosting them and then executing it is crucial part of the process, it gives us more direction, so do take care of this in future.
With that said, your Lines are done in a neat and confident way.
Ellipses:
Your Table of Ellipses(apart from things mentiond above) contains good confident ellipses as well which are drawn over at least twice, and you have taken good care to keep most of the ellipses in each section to have similar or same degree of openness and angle of orientation, further these degrees and angles are varied mostly in different sections that is again good for practicing variations, you have also taken good care to keep most of the ellipses within bounds, that is they are touching the borders as well adjacent ellipses(mostly), and do not worry a little bit of deviation is acceptable as the accuracy will improve over time, so another good attempt.
Same goes for your Funnels exercise, it also contains good confident strokes, but do take care that the minor axis(middle line) is supposed to bisect each ellipse into two equal parts, it is difficult at first as it relies on accuracy, but don't worry, with enough good mileage that will also improve over time, what you can do is, to try keeping the minor axis right in the middle of funnel, then going over it with ellipses, further if you want you can also try varied degree of openness of ellipses, being the narrowest ellipse emerging from centre and they gets more open as you move towards the end points.
The Ellipses in Ghosted planes adds another level of difficulty, but you have done great to keep your ellipses smooth and confident while also going over them atleast twice. Its okay if you do not touch all the edges for now, accuracy is important goal but for now we want to work on getting those smooth ellipses. And as mentioned earlier, accuracy will get better over time.
Boxes:
The boxes are difficult at first, so again kudos for attending them nonetheless. And apart from things mentioned above:
Your Plotted Perspective is done nicely.
Your Rough perspective, the strokes are mostly confident with little to no wobble at all and you have taken care to keep the width parallel to the horizon and the height perpendicular which is yet again a good point, and do not worry about accuracy that much right now.
Your Rotated boxes, well you did a good job drawing through your boxes. It is a difficult exercise not going to lie, but one pointer for your future attempts so that it does not looks like a guess work, try to keep the gaps between boxes narrow and consistent, that can not only make it easier to give them nice rotations but you will also get a base to further mark your next box. While the rotations here aren't perfect, still this was a decent effort overall. The more you draw and develop your spatial thinking ability the easier these rotations are to handle. This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons or the boxes challenge to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved.
Finally the organic perspective, besides the points mentioned earlier, it is a nice attempt, kudos. And I will again just add this regarding lineweights "Lineweight should be added with confident ghosted lines, and solely to the part of lines to overlap, not to whole lines." for future reference.
With that said, its an overall good attempt, as for the things I mentioned above, do take note of them while doing your future warmups and exercises especially the point of not correcting your initial mark, it might take time to get used to, sure, but improvement will be there, just stay regular!
Next Steps:
Congratulations, now you can move towards the famous 250 box challenge.
Some points before moving on:
Do regular warmups, they do wonders, even if you think you won't be able to draw much, then also try to squeeze atleast five minutes per day for warmup, while keeping the aforementioned points in mind for your exercises.
Do not hesitate to revisit lesson zero, or the lesson texts and videos if you have questions or want to recall about the exercises and warmups.
Do follow the fifty percent rule, you might enjoy it or you might not even feel like doing it but do it nonetheless, you will appreciate its value over time.
Do not isolate, regularly post your updates in the appropriate section or the appropriate lesson channels on discord to get feedback on the work in progress.
And to take good care of your health and sleep(This is the most improtant one in my opinion).
With that said, my best wishes for your future endeavours, have great time.
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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