Hiya! I’ll be looking through this~
The lines look good, though there’s a bit too much focus on accuracy (particularly obvious in your arcing superimposed lines.) Remember that confidence is to be prioritized, not accuracy. A confident, but inaccurate line is still correct. An accurate, but wobbly line is not. By the way, for the planes, I recommend using start/end points for your non-diagonal center lines, too.
This is particularly an issue in your ellipses. They’re too stiff, and wobbly, and make more of an effort to hit all of the bounds of the frame, than to be smooth, and rounded. Be careful that you’re going around them 2 full times, by the way, and no more than 3. Though you’ve understood the technical aspects of these exercises, the lack of confidence is a bit of a deal breaker, so I’ll quickly request an extra page of ellipses (of an exercise of your choice), before marking this as complete. Be especially careful that they’re confident. It’s perfectly fine for them to miss the frame, even if by a lot.
The box section looks really good! It looks like you used a ruler for the front faces of the boxes in the rough perspective exercise. This is incorrect, but not a huge deal. What is a huge deal is the automatic reinforcing. If a line is wrong, it’s wrong. Rather than make it scream its presence by correcting it, simply leave it, and spend more time ghosting the next one.
Though there’s a few issues, this is solid work, and I’ll be happy to mark it as complete just as soon as I see those ellipses. GL!
Next Steps:
1 page of ellipses
Hey Benj!
Thank you for taking your time to analyze my stuff :)
I really wanted to grind the ellipses because they are most challenging for me. You are very correct about me slowing down and aiming for accuracy. I`m a bit anxious and jittery with most lines. It has something to do with ink and the finality of it. Now i realize i need to work more on the flow of the markmaking.
If you think i need to draw more ellipses let me know.
Extra page of ellipses: https://imgur.com/gallery/bsK9XBg
Cheers!
Looks good~ I notice that a lot of these start off a little insecure, and then stabilize during the second and third rotations, so see if you can up the ghosting time a little bit, and only commit to the motion once you’re ready. Also, rather than flicking the pen off the page at the end, and running off-course, see if you can lift it off the page, instead. Both of these are to keep in mind for your warmups, though, since this is more than enough for me to mark this lesson as complete. Well done~
Next Steps:
250 Box Challenge
Thanks Benj! I appreciate it
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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