Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

4:34 AM, Tuesday December 28th 2021

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Doing the perspective section of the homework was a very humbling experience. Hopefully I did okay!

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9:32 PM, Tuesday December 28th 2021

Hello Hunkyhyena! Overall you've done a pretty good attempt, though there are a few things I want to comment on, let's go through each exercise section by section!:

Starting with your lines you're doing a great job committing to your lines and drawing them confidently even if they're going to miss then ending dot, which is just what we're looking for!

The main problem is that even though it got reduced as you went through the exercises, there's still a bit of wobble from time to time on your lines, so try to focus on correcting it, it happens specially at the starting parts of your lines.

I can also see you haven't tried many long ghosted lines, so try to do longer ones in future attempts in your warmups so you get practice on those as well.

Other than that you're doing a great job planning each line and attempting them carefully so I don't have anything else to say, good job!

Moving onto your ellipses they're mainly confident just like your lines on the lines section, but they are a bit wobbly in general. Just like on lines we want to mkae them as confident and smooth as we can, so try to loosen up and draw a bit faster and more confidently so they end up fully confident. This will make the accuracy get worse, but that's not an issue as it'll get better with practice.

Next issue I could see is that they got a bit uneven at times, I know it's super hard to make them even and symmetrical (and it's completely normal you can't do it right now consistently) but make sure you're always aiming for it and thinking about it.

I can see this specially on the ghosted planes, in which I think you get a bit confused by the planes and draw the ellipses a bit non symmetrical. So make sure you always remind yourself of the shape they need to have regardless of where they are. Only thing you can modify is how wide the ellipses are and where they are, you can't break their symmetry.

Lastly on your funnels sometimes you aren't aligning the ellipses to the minor axis. Make sure you always aim for the ellipses to be cut symmetrically by the middle line even if that means you need to ignore the initial curves. Pay also attention to the angle of the ellipses as well. They have to be cut symmetrically by the line, so they can't be tilted.

Finally in your boxes a few things:

-Your lines start to get a bit wobbly consistently unlike previously, your first priority with lines is to make them confident and straight just like in the lines section, so focus on that first and don't worry if you need to sacrifice accuracy to achieve it.

Here's one example, top line is a level 1 line, and bottom line is a level 0 line. This is because a confident line will always be better than a wobbly line in these exercises. In general try to approach them just like an individual ghosted lines exercise. Remember that these boxes don't have to look good, they're just practice for yourself. So if they help you get better it doesn't matter how they look!

-Sometimes you repeat lines that were off. No matter how off a line is do your best not to repeat it, keep going as if it was correct as redrawing them will make the drawing messier and can encourage bad habits.

-On rough perspective you start making some good attempts at the depth lines perspective, specially on the second page which gets pretty close! But you seem to have trouble at times keeping height lines perpendicular to the horizon line, and width lines parallel to it. I know it's hard, but make sure you always are aiming for it. You can check if the starting and ending dots are correct or not, and if you find that they aren't you can change them. You can put down as many dots as you want as long as it's before drawing the actual line, so give it a shot!

-On rotated boxes you've done a good attempt apart from the line issues I mentioned.You've carefully drawn all the boxes, and most of them are rotated and kept close together, good job! The only thing is that some of the boxes on the outer ends aren't rotating and are a bit too far away from each other, so keep an eye on that in future attempts at the exercise.

-Main thing on organic perspective is that I think you might not be drawing starting and ending points for all of your lines. If this is the case make sure you do it because it's super important for applying the ghosting method properly.

-On the boxes themselves you are making some good attempts at the boxes, but specially the perspective has issues. That's not a problem as you'll work on them on the box challenge though! So nothing to worry about.

For the boxes themselves I recommend to do more overlaps between boxes in future attempts as you haven't done many of them. Remember when you do it that you can add lineweight to the parts of outer lines that overlap with other boxes to clarify which ones are on top and which behind, so give it a try next attempts you have at the exercise!

Overall like I said you've done a pretty good job, but since I can see you struggle a bit with the lines on the boxes I want to make sure you can draw the lines confidently on boxes as well, and that you can draw them without repeating lines, so I want you to do 1 more page of rough perspective. Good luck and keep up the good work!

Next Steps:

1 page of rough perspective

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
4:07 AM, Friday December 31st 2021

Thanks for the advice! I am definitely not too comfortable with ellipses yet, but with more practice i'm sure I'm going to get better. You were right about me not drawing starting and ending points on some boxes, I got lazy. However, I'll make sure to keep drawing them. I tried applying your advice to this new page of rough perspective, let me know if I messed anything up!

https://imgur.com/a/zmYD6hV

1:05 PM, Friday December 31st 2021

Good job, that's better! Main thing is that there is still a bit of wobble, even if it's less than on the previous pages, so try to loosen up a bit and draw a bit faster until you get your lines to be fully confident. Don't worry if it worsens your accuracy as it will get better with practice!

Overall you've done a good job as I said on the previous critique, so I'll mark this as complete.

From now on you need to do warmups before every session, so don't forget about them! And make sure you ask any questions you might have. Keep up the good work and good luck on the box challenge!

Next Steps:

250 box challenge

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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