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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

4:57 PM, Thursday July 2nd 2020

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Hi everyone,

This is the lesson 1 homework I just finished today.

After weeks of doing this lesson 1, I realize several things I need to improve. I tend to overshooting or undershooting at the points. When I tried to lift up my pen, my line becomes arc. Sometimes, I missed the points badly. I will continue to 250 box challenge to improve these things.

Hope that I can get critiques to know which other points that I need to improve.

Thank you in advance.

Thao

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8:44 PM, Thursday July 2nd 2020
edited at 8:51 PM, Jul 2nd 2020

Hey! So, let's start.

The lines doesn't look bad. Actualy, they looks good. I see that you draw with confidence. This must be why you realize that sometimes you miss the final point. You must remember that the priority here: even if the line does not end in the exact place you defined, your goal must be draw with confidence, without flickering. I'm not saying that finishing the line in the final point isn't important, but i'm saying that this doesn't come in the first place. With practice, you'll be better in decrease the distance between your line and the final point.

You also arch a little on your lines, which means that you should use your shoulder more so that it doesn't happen.

About other points: you start to draw the lines exactly at the starting point and you always put the start and end points before drawing the line - unlike some students, who start to neglect the end point after a few lines, and that is a good sign.

Second, about the section of the ellipses: your ellipses need to be a tiny bit more confident. The second or third time that you draw it seems a little flickering. Also, you must draw the ellipses within the bounds, without overlapping the limits, witch is something that you have missing. But you have some positive points, like the funnels, witch the smaller axis cut them in two symmetrical parts.

Finally, we arrive at the box section. In the Rough perspective exercise, you miss the straight lines, which has not happened like this before. In organic perspective, in some of the sections (like the first one, per example) the size of the boxes in relation to the perspective need to be a little better, that is some of the boxes are bigger when they need to be smaller, because they are far away. You must remember that when the boxes are far away, their size need to be smaller; and when they are closer, the size need to be bigger. However, the rest of the exercises are fine: you draw through the boxes; the width lines are parallel to the horizontal lines and the height lines are parallel to the vertical; in the rotated boxes, the boxes seems like they are rotating (!), witch is a good sign.

Next Steps:

Before I let you move on to the 250 Box Challenge, I’d like to see one more page of the Tables of ellipses, one more page of the Rough perpective and one more of the Organic perspective exercise, where you’re particularly mindful of the things I’ve pointed out.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
edited at 8:51 PM, Jul 2nd 2020
11:28 AM, Sunday July 5th 2020

Hi Jordanasza,

Thank you for your detailed critiques.

I will redo the exercises as you told. However, I'm not really sure what does it mean I missed the straight lines in Rough Perspective. May I ask is that means my lines in boxes are really wobbly and need to try harder to put it straight?

Looking forward to hear your answer.

Kind regards,

Thao

1:54 PM, Sunday July 5th 2020
edited at 1:55 PM, Jul 5th 2020

Hi Thaolnt!

So, when I said that you missed the straight lines in Rough Perspective I was talking about the boxes' lines are wobbly and you need to try to put it straight, as you said. Forgive me for not being so clear at that point.

I requested for you do this exercise again because your lines were really good, but in this specific exercise, they are really different than the others (their quality has decreased), being really wobbly.

edited at 1:55 PM, Jul 5th 2020
6:46 PM, Sunday July 5th 2020

Thank you for your prompt answer, Jordanasza!

I re-did it today but I still see my lines are still wobbly in this particular exercise. ???? I think something is tricking my mind and I'm so nervous in this one. I'll redo it and submit to you soon.

12:24 PM, Wednesday July 8th 2020

Hi Jordanasza,

https://imgur.com/a/WCUTHim

Please check the link which includes the exercises I re-did for lesson 1.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thank you and kind regards,

Thao

5:34 PM, Wednesday July 8th 2020
edited at 7:13 PM, Jul 8th 2020

Hey, Thaolnt!

So, I saw your exercises, and they are really better than the last one.

Your ellipses are much more confident than the last ones. I mean, they are really good. Also, your lines improve a lot, looking confident as well. Besides that, your perspective is also way better than the last time you did Organic Perspective: the size of the far boxes is smaller, and the size of the closer boxes is bigger.

That is, you correct all the points that I made. Well done!

The only thing I’d like to point out is that you should not correct an incorrect line, which I saw some like that in Rough perspective and Organic Perspective. If it’s wrong, it’s wrong. Also, since you corrected your flickering lines doing them more confident (which is your main goal), I advise you to, as you progress through the lessons, try reach your secondary goal, which is to finishing the line at the final point.

Other than that, everything that I pointed out has been fixed, so I’ll pass you on to the 250 box challenge.

I pointed some advices that I would like to give for you, since you are starting this challenge. Hope they are useful for you: https://drawabox.com/community/submission/FL8ZDSM3

So, good challenge!

Next Steps:

250 Box Challenge

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edited at 7:13 PM, Jul 8th 2020
6:44 AM, Thursday July 9th 2020

Thank you very much for helping me, Jordanasza.

Now I have more confidence to move to the challenge.

I read your advices for 250 box challenge, it's really practical and helpful.

Let's work on it and enjoy what we make for art. :D

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