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1:54 AM, Wednesday September 28th 2022

I'll do your review, I'm sorry that you didnt get a complete review before.

Superimposed Lines

  • You have some fraying on both ends, and we don't want fraying on the begiining point. Jsut take a little more care when placing your pen down at the beginning.

Ghosted Lines

  • You have a few some arcing and swooping lines. That's often from your elbow and/or wrist being involved. It can alsao be a cause of your nrain trying to steer the line as you draw it. Try drawing them a little faster perhaps.

  • A smooth straight line that misses the end point is better than one that wobbles. swoops, or arcs and hits the target.

Ghosted Planes

  • Same comment on arcing lines, it improved in your 2nd page but you want to make sure you focus on confident lines. Accuracy comes later.

Table of Ellipses

  • You want to draw through your ellipses at least 2x (but no more than 3x). Twice is the target

  • You want the ellipses in each section to be the same angle and degree

  • You should vary the ellipses for each section, refer to the lesson for that, including the example homework

  • Don't rush - ghost the motion and then set your pen down and repeat that motion. You can literally close your eyes at that point. A smooth ellipse is better than an accurate one.

Ellipses in Funnels

  • You want to draw through your ellipses at least 2x (but no more than 3x). Twice is the target

  • Don't let the ellipse get deformed by trying to touch the nearby lines. Ghost the motion and then set your pen down and repeat that motion. You can literally close your eyes at that point. A smooth ellipse is better than an accurate one.

  • Try and keep the ellipses aligned to the center line. A good ellipse gets cut exactly in half by that line.

Ellipses in planes

  • You want to draw through your ellipses at least 2x (but no more than 3x). Twice is the target. You have a few 4x around in this exercise.

  • Don't let the ellipse get deformed by trying to touch the nearby lines. Ghost the motion and then set your pen down and repeat that motion. You can literally close your eyes at that point. A smooth ellipse is better than an accurate one.

Plotted Perspective

  • Good job but please keep to the instructions and follow the layout of the example homework from the lesson. This should have been 3 panes of work on one page.

Rough Perspective

  • Only extend to the horizon line when you check your work. going beyond makes it hard to see what is going on (for you as well as your reviewer)

  • Your back face of the box wants to always smaller than the front (its further away from the viewer)

  • Try to keep your front and back face lines parallel and perpendicular to your horizon line

  • Wobble/arcing of your lines

Rotated Boxes

  • In this one your boxes arent actually rotating

  • Wobble/arcing of your lines

Organic Persective

  • please keep to the instructions and follow the layout of the example homework from the lesson. This should have been 3 panes of work per page.

  • Make sure you are making it clear that the boxes are moving away from the viewer along the line. Your 2nd page what the best.

  • Wobble/arcing of your lines

Overall

  • You have done a pretty good job on a lot of these exercises :)

  • Lines: You want to work on confidence over accuracy - draw as fast as you need to, in order to eliminate wobbling. Prioritizing the shoulder can help with arcing.

  • Ellipses: You want to work on confidence and alignment, and drawing through at least 2 times but no more than 3 times

  • Rotated Boxes: I want to be sure you understand how to rotate them from the lesson instructions.

If you have any questions feel free to ask!

Paul-A-Saurus

Next Steps:

Revisions I'm requesting:

Ellipses in Planes: 1 page

I'd like to see confident, smooth lines and ellipses even when they miss the mark

https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/ellipsesinplanes

  • Rotated Boxes: 1 quadrant (1/4 page)

  • I'd recommend re-reading the lesson and re-watching the video, and check this infographic for some help

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/368870697742630912/715669112222908466/zfr3o7xneog31.png

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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11:17 PM, Wednesday September 21st 2022

1 You need to be more careful with placement of you pen at the beginning of each stroke.

2 I see some wobbly lines. Draw from your elbow without second guessing.

Next Steps:

Address the critiques then move ahead.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
5:51 PM, Thursday September 22nd 2022

I did again some of the exercises again taking into account what you mentioned in your revision, from here on I'm going to start taking close attention to what you said but point 1 was hard for me since I don't have a lot of patience so even ghosting lines was hard sometimes but I tried my best in the exercises and took my time but still felt it wasn't enough in some of them.

https://imgur.com/a/F78pAsb

I did the lessons that came into my mind when reading your revision. If there still anything left to work from lesson 1 I will work on it next week.

3:12 AM, Wednesday October 5th 2022

You're on the right track. Make a resubmission, keeping these in mind:

1.Wobble in lines. In drawabox you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy.

A wobbly line is a mistake, no matter how accurate, and a confident line will be correct, as with practice the accuracy will get better.

https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/5bcda336.jpg

2.Fraying on both ends. The line should never fray on the starting dot. The student should place the pen carefully at the beginning of each line so this does not happen.

https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/1585f266.jpg

3.Arching lines. Sometimes the lines will arch a bit.

It's worth mentioning this might happen because they are not mostly using the shoulder pivot. It can happen while using the shoulder too however, and in this case it can be fixed by trying to arch consciously to the opposite direction.

4.Not plotting lines. Sometimes students, specially on ghosted planes, will stop placing a starting and ending dot before drawing a line, trying to freehand the line without ghosting.

Mention them that starting a line with a starting and ending dot is important for applying the ghosting method, and that it should not be skipped.

5.Repeating lines. No matter how off a line is, a student should never repeat it, they should kept the line as it if were correct and move on.

These are the basics!

I apologize about the late reply!

Next Steps:

Move unto your next step

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4:40 PM, Wednesday September 28th 2022

Giving useful, detailed feedback to students is quite difficult, and we're very appreciative of the students who give that time to critique others' homework submissions - however, there are plenty of people who simply don't have the time to provide a fully in-depth review of a student's work. Based on the fairly limited feedback you provided, focusing only on one section of the lesson, I assume that your intent here was to provide what help you could, given your time constraints. But that said, it would be best in this case for you to leave it to those who do have more time, as providing feedback makes the system believe that the student has already received feedback, thus dropping their position in the list and reducing their chances of receiving further feedback (in favour of giving visibility to others). So the first response a student gets is often, though not always, all the feedback they're going to get.

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2:57 AM, Wednesday October 5th 2022

I'll learn how to critique better. Thanks for the time!

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