Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
12:09 PM, Sunday March 15th 2020
Hi, mates. Any feedback would be appreciated. Have a nice day!
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1:27 PM, Sunday March 15th 2020
Hey! I'm Tora, I'll be reviewing your homework today. :) I'll be sectioning off the review as they are in the lessons, so right off in to the critique:
Lines - Superimposed lines are looking great. Confident, straight, feathering only on one end. Great work! I can see you took the same confidence in to the ghosted lines and ghosted planes exercise. Not much I can say other than very well done.
Ellipses - Moving on to ellipses, you demonstrate the same confidence in your ellipses as they are all smooth, properly drawn through, there is a decent variety in degrees and angles. You hit full marks on ellipses in planes as well. Occasionally your ellipses in planes miss one side -- I believe this is just your arm getting used to the motion, but I will leave this here just as a reminder. Ellipses in funnels are looking good here as well, you've prioritize ellipse quality and smoothness over accuracy, which is the point of the exercise so well done! Some of the ellipses become ever so slightly misaligned to the minor axis, but that's okay for now. As you warm up, add this exercise to your repertoire and with time you'll get the accuracy perfectly there too. :)
Boxes - Finally, boxes. Line quality is looking great in rough perspective. I'm not sure if you did, but again a reminder -- remember to plot your start/end points for your lines. When it comes to rotated boxes, good job with this too. The only note I can say on this is to try and refrain from re-tracing your lines or drawing over them more than once, as this can only bring attention to any potential mistakes. As far as organic perspective goes, I'd say you did a great job! It's a really really solid starting point to the 250 boxes challenge, which I recommend you do next. :)
All in all, great submission. Keep up the great work as you go through the next lessons and challenges.
Next Steps:
250 boxes challenge.
10:04 AM, Monday March 16th 2020
I'd mostly agree with this, but I want to add that the rotated box is a bit too messy, I think brought on mostly by missing the mark on adding line weight from the looks of things. It's just hard to read, and I think a bit more clarity will help with this, and future exercises.
I think in future if you do this as a warmup, or general exercise, add hatching in addition to line weight, to further bring out which faces are showing.
Be careful with your line weight, and don't rush.
It's not an easy exercise, for sure, but keep going.
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